I've often wondered how our guests would react to 'having to go down the the 'cellar' during a tornado warning! Fortunately we have never had guests here when we have had the warnings. I guess they'd just be glad for a safe place to be.
Has anyone else ever had to "shelter" guests from a tornado??.
Sunshine said:
I've often wondered how our guests would react to 'having to go down the the 'cellar' during a tornado warning! Fortunately we have never had guests here when we have had the warnings. I guess they'd just be glad for a safe place to be.
Has anyone else ever had to "shelter" guests from a tornado??
I live in tornado alley. I have had guests a couple of times with tornado warnings. One night at about 1am the tornado siren went off. Fortunately the guests were fellow Hoosiers so they knew the drill. We all sat in the living room tuned into the local tv station. The weather radar is so good now that you can see the rotation of the clouds and wind speeds at various levels so we could watch the bad weather march across the state. Although we talked about going to the basement between looking out the window and watching the weather radar we made it fine.
Needless to say, the local news crews are amazingly responsive. Bad weather always interrupts regularly scheduled programs or gets the weatherman out of bed.
Last month a couple checked in during a tornado warning that was pretty much state-wide and resulted in several very destructive tornados in the southern part of the state. So my tour of the inn included how to get to the basement as well as where to meet up after the storm. Neither time did the storms materialize, but knowing how destructive they can be, we do take time to make sure guests know how to be as safe as possible.
Our state B&B association requires having the location of the fire extinguishers posted in each room, so I've used the same notice to explain about tornados and how to get to the basement. My notice says something like "in case of a tornado warning the best place to be is in another state." Then I give the instructions about the difference between a watch and a warning, and checking weather radar on tv and how to get to the basement. From a statistical standpoint weather for us is as risky as fire...
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