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<blockquote data-quote="yukonjack" data-source="post: 2126244" data-attributes="member: 2939"><p>They survived just fine. We told them we&#039;d come back to them after we cleared the rest of the houses on the street we were assigned to. I don&#039;t think anyone is saying you wouldn&#039;t survive in one. You might just be stuck in it awhile if it&#039;s a large scale tornado. It&#039;s like a triage deal. These guys were okay, just buried under some debris in their shelter. They ranked pretty low on the rescue scale. I think it took about 1 1/2 hours before we got back to them. By then another neighbor that didn&#039;t get hit as bad had gotten his bobcat out and was already helping to remove the debris from their garage that had fallen in and covered up their shelter. Things started going better once the EOC was up and running but it took a while to pull all that together effectively. I think the Piedmont tornado was almost a mile wide at one point and was on the ground in the city limits for almost 20 miles as it took as SW to NE track before moving into Cashion. Small cities can get overwhelmed pretty quick.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="yukonjack, post: 2126244, member: 2939"] They survived just fine. We told them we'd come back to them after we cleared the rest of the houses on the street we were assigned to. I don't think anyone is saying you wouldn't survive in one. You might just be stuck in it awhile if it's a large scale tornado. It's like a triage deal. These guys were okay, just buried under some debris in their shelter. They ranked pretty low on the rescue scale. I think it took about 1 1/2 hours before we got back to them. By then another neighbor that didn't get hit as bad had gotten his bobcat out and was already helping to remove the debris from their garage that had fallen in and covered up their shelter. Things started going better once the EOC was up and running but it took a while to pull all that together effectively. I think the Piedmont tornado was almost a mile wide at one point and was on the ground in the city limits for almost 20 miles as it took as SW to NE track before moving into Cashion. Small cities can get overwhelmed pretty quick. [/QUOTE]

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