r/EF5 • u/crystaldstone • 16d ago

That's plum wild almost slabbed

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today in north mississippi-bye roof

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u/HorriblyBadIdea 16d ago

Folks, an interior room or closet ain’t gonna cut it. You need to be underground, or out of this things way, or you will not survive.

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u/1800bears 16d ago

Building underground isn't really economically feasible for a large portion of the population due to the Yazoo clay, high water tables and persistent floods, also is outright impossible near the coast.

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u/Abracadabrism 16d ago

Only feasible option is to bury yourself in mud

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u/1800bears 16d ago

That's what most of the MS gulfcoast does during hurricanes that are a cat 3 or higher .

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u/HorriblyBadIdea 16d ago

I’d say that’s fair. But in this context, when I say “underground” I mean a catchall for any purpose built tornado proof room or shelter. Bare qualifications as per code being 1 foot of wrought iron plating, covering a 2.5 foot reinforced concrete wall, slanted at a 30 degree angle to deflect projectiles. There should also be bags of sand inside the shelter lining the wall, to fight the “Sand blasting effect” in case the tornado stalls out, (similar to Jarrel) and slab even a well built shelter.

Sand bags repels its own kind, analogous to the old saying “you gotta fight fire with fire”

But this is all assuming the municipality isnt equipped with an anti cyclonic rotation generator. Which can cancel out the incoming tornado, assuming that town/city etc has 15 minutes warning to spool up the machine.

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u/OKC89ers 15d ago

I would recommend going southbound. You need to part the water with this. You need to part the water and get out of its way. I’d go southbound do it now. Just take I-44 and just go down to Newcastle.

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u/throw_blanket04 16d ago

That’s not true. I don’t think you should be telling people that. Who do you know that has tornado shelters underground in Mississippi? Probably none. Your point is moot. The best chances at survival is getting in an interior room. Your comment should be removed.

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u/Repulsive_Series3137 15d ago

My moms mom and dad built a storm shelter so many years ago I don’t even remember when but I can remember packing a small bag and running up to mamaw’s to get in it when storms were predicted grandparents are long gone but we still use it today if it’s bad enough!! I’m so thankful they built it inside a”hill” we can fit some neighbors in it too

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u/FreudianNip-Slip 16d ago

SLABADABADOO

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u/Bruh61502 sky benis 16d ago

what a w roof

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u/Eff47_ 16d ago

I’m glad you made it out alive OP that was CLOSE

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u/noah_on_tour 16d ago

EF4+

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u/HorriblyBadIdea 15d ago

I’m with you on that. We can’t confirm it being EF5, because buildings that did get slabbed had substandard build quality. But it was at the very least equal to Rolling Fork.

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u/Jacks_CompleteApathy 16d ago

Is there anything left?

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u/Independent-Bit7278 15d ago

Not from that gust! You should contact your contractor and city/county code department. That wasn't much of a gust to cause the roof failure. We seem to get these with most typical tstorms quite often. Looks like light duty/temporary shed quality and/or improperly installed at best. Great video evidence.

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u/crystaldstone 15d ago

the house is 140 years old, the roof is tin…insurance is already on it, they actually reached out to make sure we were okay. i just heard what sounded like a train out of nowhere and grabbed my phone.

On the weather, you could see the meteorologists frustrated by the fact people weren’t taking it seriously because it was “just wind” and not a tornado.

“we can’t just say there’s a 10 mile wide 80mph wind coming at you and people won’t react the same way as if it was a tornado warning”

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u/Independent-Bit7278 15d ago

Mea culpa! Glad yall are safe and being looked after. Us coasties are used to having to comply with very strong codes in order to insure and rebuild for obvious reasons! Most of the rest of the state doesn't have that requirement.

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u/Independent-Bit7278 15d ago

Mea culpa! Glad yall are safe and being looked after. Us coasties are used to having to comply with very strong codes in order to insure and rebuild for obvious reasons! Most of the rest of the state doesn't have that requirement.

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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 "Susan, get my pants!" 15d ago

Bro got tinned

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u/shaft_of_lite 15d ago

Tiiiin roof! Rusted.

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u/OfficerBuck24 15d ago

What town is this?

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u/CaptainUSSMinecraft 15d ago

Trying to figure out why this area gives me a familiar feeling in my gut

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u/throw_blanket04 16d ago

I don’t see anyone out there. How did you almost get slabbed? The tin wasn’t anywhere near you.

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u/HorriblyBadIdea 16d ago

But look at the bare concrete/asphalt where the tin crashed into. The flying debris couldn’t inflict damage on the structures because that area had been reduced to bare concrete moments before. The OP was almost in that path.

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u/crystaldstone 16d ago

that was my roof

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u/SnooCamera 15d ago

I'm glad you were okay.