r/vandwellers • u/Glitchyguy97 • 6d ago

Tips & Tricks Is it scary during storms/tornadoes?

I've always worried about tornadoes

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u/RI-Transplant 6d ago

You have wheels, you can drive away from a tornado. Storms are fucking lit.

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u/budleighbabberton19 5d ago

A vehicle is one of the deadliest places you can be during a tornado.

Tornadoes are often in the middle of night, unpredictable, and span enormous areas. Coupled with shitty visibility, don't plan on being able to drive away from a tornado.

Drive away from the tornadoes, like, drive to where they don't happen

Source: I lived in a van through tornado season in tornado Alley

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u/Appropriate_Smell833 5d ago

Yeah if I’m on wheels and a tornado is coming I’m hopping on the nearest freeway out of town. No1 reason to live in a vehicle.

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u/Fun_Health8583 4d ago

Tornados do crazy things to air pressure, a vehicle won’t necessarily keep running. Drove through central KS half an hour after the tornado that hit Andover and saw plenty of evidence that even vehicles already ON the highway couldn’t get away. Guess that truck we saw sitting in a tree 20 yards from the highway just wanted to get a good view?