So, the most practical thing to do would be to prepare for more events like this one in Tornado Alley by digging Tornado shelters below ground. Unfortunately, most of the area around Oklahoma city is rock under the homes there so either someone has to blast to accomplish this or be willing to spend several days or more with a jackhammer hammering and breaking the rock out for a Tornado shelter under their homes.
However, an event like this likely will have many people doing just this after this experience of so many injured and dead in their community. And people throughout tornado alley likely will begin to build more underground shelters for their family to survive these things in as well.
If you have never seen the movie Twister it is a good one to learn more about Tornadoes even though it was made in 1996.
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A 200 mph weather event like this just isn't survivable above ground unless you are really lucky in a large building like a large school or shopping center. If you are in a home or car or out in the open you won't usually survive unless you quickly get into an underground shelter of some kind with a metal door with a good latch.
Also, as ground and air temperatures increase this will cause increases in wind speed in Tornadoes and other wind events which will tend to cause more damage over time. So, with every passing year the need for having an underground Tornado Shelter if you live in Tornado alley becomes more pressing.
Where I live the main problems in California are Fires and Earthquakes. Both can make a city or area look like a war zone too. So we have a lot of sympathy and empathy for the People of Moore and Oklahoma City right now because this looks like a bad year for fires because they have already started up and down our state.
note: Much later: novermber 7th -2013
I was thinking that if a back yard had too much rock that one could make an above ground shelter as well as an underground one. It would need to have rebar reinforced concrete 6 inches to 1 foot thick and you likely wouldn't want windows that could blow out when a tornado passes over you and likely you would need a cement roof reinforced with rebar to protect you to make sure the whole thing wouldn't be lifted off the ground in a 200 mph or higher tornado and the door would have to be all metal and capable of being bolted or shut in such a way that the jiggling of the door during the tornado wouldn't cause it to open and for people to be sucked out into the maelstrom. Also, you might want water and power to it so you could still get water and storm information from TVs and radios into it so you could see the progress of the storm and to figure out if there was flooding from the storm nearby so you would know when to get out if a wall of water was coming your way from the storm that was generating the tornado.
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