WEBVTT - Myths and Truths About Tornadoes 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.160 This episode is brought to you by square Space. Start 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.280 building your website today at squarespace dot com and are 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.840 offered code stuff at check out and you will get 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:14.280 ten percent off squar Space. Set your website apart. Welcome 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.239 to you Stuff you should know from how Stuff Works 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:25.840 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.520 Clark reporting from the eye of the Tornado, which is 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:34.480 why it's quiet and calm. Oh wait, that's a hurricane. Uh. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.880 And there's Charles that you took Bryant and Jerry's over there, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:43.280 and the section howdy sir, how are you? I'm good. Um. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.520 I should say right off the bat that my wife 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:50.800 Emily is kind of obsessed with tornadoes from her childhood 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.840 growing up in Ohio, which we'll talk about Tornado Alley, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.360 but some people put parts of Ohio and Tornado Alley. Yeah, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.840 some people do. My family did. Yeh. Was it like 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.360 a thing growing up tornado aware at the end of 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.000 tornado Alley, right, I mean you'd see them, so the 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.720 tornado might come knock and then here's what we'll do. Well, yeah, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.080 and we did it plenty of times. Go down in 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:20.160 the basement for practice or tornadoes all right, Yeah, sure, no, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.240 Ohio is definitely at the end of Tornado Alley. I 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.000 know if you look at the map, it doesn't look 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:27.759 like most of it is. Well it depends on what map. Yeah, Um, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.080 if you look at the Clark family map and apparently 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:34.039 the Seneboguan family map, it's on Tornado Alley. Yeah. So 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.880 she's still obsessed with tornadoes and the movie Twister. Every 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.400 time it's on, she'll watch whatever part of it is on. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.880 It's a good one. But I think also you you 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.960 may you could make the argument that Twister kind of 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:54.640 um cinematizes tornadoes. You think you maybe it's a little 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.800 although there are some parts where it's like you should 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.880 not be telling people to do this, like out running 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.800 a tornado. Yeah, that's a good thing to not do. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.240 As a matter of fact. Well, we saw I watched 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.000 there was some video going around the other day of 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.360 a lady who survived the tornado that went through. I 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.840 think she was a FedEx driver at a convenience store 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.840 and it's just like this camera footage and she kind 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.160 of ducks behind a soda machine and you just see 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:20.960 it go through and just wreck everything. And then she 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.600 walks out and I told Emily, I was like, this 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.120 is your worst nightmare, and she said yes. I said, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.360 but it's also you're your deepest desire. Oh it's like 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.240 that for her. Huh. I think so, she said, if 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.799 I know I could survive it, I think it might 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.720 be my deepest desire to like get through a tornado 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.960 going right over me. So that's herb session runs deep. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.320 So you've seen that footage of those people under an 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.280 overpass for the video, Like the tornado appears to go 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:52.360 right over the overpass the underpass. What's the difference. I 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.680 think if you're going over the road below, you're on 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.600 the overpass, if you're underneath the overpass underpass, Okay, I think, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:08.320 all right, yeah, I'm sure some highways civil engineer, so 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:13.720 um chuck uh. There are plenty things that Emily should 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.800 do and shouldn't do if she's going to survive that 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.040 tornado that she secretly really wants to experience. All right, 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.920 And there's a lot of myths associated with tornadoes, Like 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.880 I grew up, you didn't grow up with tornadoes. Well, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.760 I mean Georgia has tornadoes here and there here there, Yeah, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.280 Like it seems like I've seen them in the in 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.360 the North Georgia Mountains before. Like I remember one time 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.200 when I went to go drive to go camping, there 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.080 had been a recent tornado and there were some houses 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.200 that were just toothpicks. Yes, as a matter of fact, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.280 I think there was a bad one in Ringold, you remember, 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.280 which is a little north of here Um and you, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.840 me and I were driving through and it was like 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.000 pines that you could see where it crossed the highway 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.920 because there was this a swath of pine trees, like 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.320 you said, there has just been crushed like toothpicks on 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.680 one side and then on the other side, but then 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.640 not further up and not further south. It was pretty neat, 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.440 but it was also like, oh yeah, like a bunch 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.960 of people died here. It is definitely weird when you 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.560 see like a house will be splintered in the next 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.960 door neighbors is fine, Yes, it's just so like creepy. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.920 It is very random. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty pretty creepy. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.560 Were you and you me on your way to Dollywood 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:26.680 by any chance? That's it's entirely possible. I just figured 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.360 anytime you get in a car and head north, you're 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:33.720 probably going to Dollywood Point or North you me, okay. So, um, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.000 we're talking tornadoes, and there's tons of myths and legends 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.360 associated with them, some of them even um discussed and 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.680 put put out there by scientists, as we'll see. But 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.680 one of the big ones, it's pretty sad one, is 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:53.040 the idea that tornadoes seek out, um, mobile home parks. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.279 Trailer parks. Yeah, that's sort of the old joke, you 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.479 know it is, and uh it's pretty grim joke. But 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.920 the weird thing is is it appears to be true 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.640 that trailer parks are likelier to be hit by tornadoes 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:13.880 than immobile homes, homes on foundations, neighborhood subdivisions, that kind 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.680 of thing. Well, I think it's probably correct to say 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:21.400 it might appear that way for several reasons. Go ahead, yeah, 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.640 well yeah, Well one reason is that, um, there there's 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.400 clearly a media bias when it comes to showing tornado 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:33.480 footage because uh, they tend to show the most damage 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.920 on the six o'clock news. That is absolutely true. So 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.080 mobile home is way more likely to be completely destroyed 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.839 than like, ah, a concrete house, let's say. And and 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.120 the reasons why they're pretty obvious, but they're worth mentioning. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.040 And mobile home is made out of much more lightweight 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.840 material than UH, immobile home. Is that what you would 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.520 call it? I would say, I don't want to call 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.400 it a permanent foundation. Nice. And that leads us to 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.640 number two. Number two is that a mobile home is 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.279 by definition, usually not anchored to the ground through a 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.840 foundation like a permanent structure. It's like a home, all right. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:17.760 And so you put those two things together. When a 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:23.320 tornado comes through UH, it creates horrible devastation, not just 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.960 to the mobile homes, but to the people inside. And 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.480 you're much more likely to die in a tornado if 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.839 you live in a mobile home than in a permanent structure. Yeah. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.280 It says here that a larger building could possibly would 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.120 stand up to a hundred miles an hour on UH 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.640 for wind, whereas fifty five could be really devastating in 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.400 a mobile home. Yeah. And so people in mobile homes 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.480 in the United States are ten to twenty more ten 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.640 to twenty times likelier to be killed in a tornado 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.479 than someone who lives in a permanent foundation home. Yeah. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.920 And I said concrete house earlier, Um, I didn't mean 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.320 brick house, I mean eat house. Yeah, because they have 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.640 one in my neighborhood like a cinder block house. Yeah, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.520 it's concrete house, but a brick house to that counts. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:15.000 Those concrete houses are built like a brick house. Uh. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.960 The other thing that we found out is UM Purdue 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.800 University at one point did a little research and found 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.480 out that tornadoes, Uh, you're more than likely gonna find 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.400 a tornado what they call a transition zone where you 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.360 may be transition from a more dense city area to 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:36.080 a more rural area where the land changes. Yeah, and 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:41.080 they produced studied tornadoes and Indiana specifically from nineteen fifty 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.960 two twelve and found that they are um much likelier 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.520 to touch down in these transition zones. Right, But that 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.600 doesn't explain why. They just were able to say, yes, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.280 this happens more frequently, and it just so happens that 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.920 these are places where mobile home parks and trailer parks 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.520 are likelier to be Yeah. There usually not like in 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.480 the middle of the city. So they were saying that 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.200 it is actually likely or for a mobile home to 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.360 be hit more by a tornado, possibly because it's right 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.080 there in the spot where they would they would hit. Um. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.640 But again, we don't know why I have a pet 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:20.560 theory here, I think that we don't well, it's clear 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.680 we don't understand tornadoes yet very well enough, and not 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.520 just us scientists too. Um. And I think one of 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.800 the things that we're gonna learn about tornadoes as we 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.880 understand them more and more is that they're guided or 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:37.199 attracted to static electricity. Mobile homes tend to be made 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.880 out of more metal than brick or wood homes or 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.240 concrete homes, and so would generate more static electricity, and 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.319 um could possibly serve as kind of almost a beacon 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.640 to a tornado that would attract it. That's my guess. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.400 And then, um, do you also remember back in I 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.679 don't remember when it wasn't I couldn't find it on 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.040 the web, but either in by Anna or k ro 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.960 which if you live outside of Georgia it's Vienna or Cairo. Um, 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.000 there was a mobile home factory that got hit by 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.360 a tornado. I think I do remember that. You remember, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.680 made pretty big news because everybody's like irony and the 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.040 old joke. So that's my pet theory. Static electricity off 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.720 of mobile homes attracts tornadoes. Did you come up with 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.120 that all all in your lonesome Yeah? Used my nogging 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.319 pretty good, thanks man. Uh. Should we move on to 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:34.760 the underpass overpass quandary? Yeah? Um, you will hear. You 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.920 probably have heard, because the the rationale used to be, Hey, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.440 if you're out on the highway, get out of your 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:46.480 car and run under that overpass or underpass and huddle. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.559 Makes total sense. Or or drive your car under there 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.800 and sit there. Yeah, and drive your car under and 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.400 then run up to the part where the overpass meets 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.959 the underpass and just wedge yourself in as much as 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.800 you can. The safest place ever where skateboard or spray 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.240 paint exactly. Yeah, and smoke marijuana for the first time. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:11.599 It's uh, it makes total senses. Are extraordinarily sturdy concrete structures, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.560 and anybody who knows anything about tornadoes knows that you 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.440 want to be in a concrete structure. But the caveat 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.439 is that you want that thing to be an enclosed 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.560 concrete structure, either in some sort of concrete walls with 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.800 a concrete roof or underground or something like that. And 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:35.920 an overpass or underpass is actually a tornado uh frenzy 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.920 whipping machine. It actually will do the opposite. It's one 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.400 of the worst places you can go. Yeah. It creates 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.960 what they call a wind tunnel effect, so that the 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.400 wind and the underpass is stronger than the wind on 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.240 the ground or above it. Yeah. It funnels the wind 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.200 through and increases its velocity, so the wind is actually 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.320 faster in the underpass. And with that wind, as you know, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.600 comes uh all kinds of debris that will impale your 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.079 body without even feeling bad about it. Yeah, it gets 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.720 whipped up by that wind tunnel. And then when the 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.880 tornado passes, that debris that's in the air is going 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.800 to suddenly like shift and come back for a second 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.200 glancing blow if you're lucky. Yeah. I was just thinking 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:19.440 when you said to hide all the way up at 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.160 the very tip top that if the tornado was going 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.080 parallel and like literally was as if it was going 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.160 down the highway above you, Uh, that maybe there is 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.600 something to that, But tornadoes are so wide, it's not 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.400 like it's as wide as that street. Well. Yeah, and 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.120 and the this article also makes the point that just 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.920 the part of the funnel that touches the ground is 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.240 not the only place where there's winds. There's high winds 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.479 all around the tornado as well. You just don't necessarily 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.719 see them and that video there we talked about the 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.559 very famous video of the people taking shelter underneath and 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.160 overpass and filming it as the tornado goes by overhead. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.000 Apparently they were being subjected to um something called an 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.720 inflow jet, uh, surface inflow jet, which was wind whipping 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.640 off the ground toward the tornado. So they weren't actually 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.640 in the path of the tornado. The tornado is like, yeah, 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:16.520 pretty close, like thirty over and to them they were like, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.800 it was the tornado, but it actually wasn't. Had it 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.000 been the tornado, they may not have survived. And they 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.560 were actually very lucky to have survived anyway. So um, 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.560 but a lot of people point to them and they're like, yeah, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.920 that's exactly what you should do. See And that's a 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.040 total anomaly that those people survived. Right, You can't take 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.800 one video and say this is the standard. Exactly these 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.120 people lived, even though it's amazing. Yeah, although they did 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.880 say the um the FedEx driver was super smart for 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.720 wedging herself between two soda machines. Oh yeah, although I 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.080 could she could have been squashed by those two. Well 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.160 it worked out for her. Yeah, let's just say that 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.959 There's one other problem with taking shelter under an overpass too, um, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:03.079 is when you park your car around there, it's gonna 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.120 get kicked up by the tornado and possibly land on 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.120 its side in the middle of the road, so that 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.520 when the tornado passes and the paramedics need to get 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.320 through there to get to rescue people, they're gonna have 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.400 a hard time with your car on its side in 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.160 the middle of the road because you left it right 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.480 in the path of the tornado. Yeah. Plus there's a 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.400 problem with people. Well, we'll we'll get we'll get to 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.880 trying to outrun a tornado here in a minute, all right, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.560 should we take a break. Let's take a break, man, 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.440 all right, Josh. There's another old thing that you've probably 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.560 heard growing up in Toledo, which is, uh, if you 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.440 see a tornado or you know a tornado's coming, um, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.880 open up your windows so it can just pass on through. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.280 Makes total sense. Yeah, not necessarily passed through. But uh, like, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.400 was it de pressurized the home maybe? Yeah? So um uh, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.640 tornado is driven by low pressure winds, right or a 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.880 low pressure front. Um. And the idea was that if 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.840 the pressure was higher in your house than the tornado 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.520 outside your house would explode. And it was actually this 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.160 is what scientists told people to do for many years. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.120 He said, go open your windows. I remember that. I 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.640 don't remember us ever opening our windows, but I remember 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.160 it was like I should you shouldn't use kind of thing. Um. 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.640 And the problem is is that ways tear like a 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.840 tremendous amount of time windows when you need to be 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.280 taking shelter somewhere. Um. And then secondly, it does absolutely nothing. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.000 As a matter of fact, it can. It can have 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.280 even different effects than if you left the window closed. Yeah. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.120 I wonder if um that started because they didn't know 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:00.800 much about it, and they would say, well, that house 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.280 looks like it exploded. Um, because they do look like 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.440 it they exploded, but they didn't. Have you ever seen 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.400 one up close? What the wreckage? Yeah? Well just driving 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.800 by it like you know, like a house. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.360 like on the on the road, and then the house 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.840 was beside the road. But I didn't like walk through it. 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.680 You was telling me once about when she was a 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.920 kid down south, um, that there was a neighborhood that 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.240 just got just leveled. And she was actually talking about 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.240 how it just insane it is when you're seeing a 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.240 house that's standing, but everything around it's like totally destroyed. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.800 But she was like, this is like it was unnerving 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.960 just the destruction, like seeing houses like that because you know, 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.480 they're supposed to be solid and safe. Yeah, they're not 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.040 supposed to look like they exploded or anything like that. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:49.440 Although if you've ever done house construction and stuff like that, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.360 I remember, I don't know I had this idea I 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.280 had that I don't I don't think I knew how 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.480 houses were built. And then once I sort of did 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:57.680 a little bit and I was like, oh man, this 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.800 is just there's just a bunch of wood, you know. 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.640 So I mean it makes sense, but it is very 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:09.040 distressing to see that turned into toothpicks. Um. So if 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.120 you did go to the trouble of opening all of 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.440 the windows in your house right and the tornado came 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.040 through and it didn't actually level your house, because that's 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.520 the other thing with opening the windows. The tornado could 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.280 care less about the lower high pressure which is gonna 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.960 level your house if it wants to see if it 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.840 gets in the way. Um, But if you if it 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.560 did just pass by enough that it didn't level your 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.440 house and the windows are open, it could conceivably blow 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.200 the roof off the sucker because because those windows are open, 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:44.680 apparently the the the tornado actually raises the pressure in 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:48.720 the house upward somehow, and then gusts can lift the 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.840 roof right off. And they did this. They figured this 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.840 out by doing tests. And I looked everywhere to find 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.280 out who conducted this test and how they did it. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:04.480 Couldn't find anything that thing. Maybe I was always just 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.080 wondered though, And they were like, we performed tests, right, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.159 trust me. How do you blow the roof off of 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.760 a house and a test? Yeah, or simulated tornado? Yeah, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.680 you cut on a smaller scale. But does it does 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.879 it graduate upward? I don't know. I'm thinking to me, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.040 I'm off today. No, you're not. I feel off. Oh, 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.160 you're right on. I gave blood for the first time 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:26.840 on Sunday. Oh. I thought you about to say, like 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.800 an hour ago, you saw it. That's the first time 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.960 you've ever given blood in your life? Really? Yeah, And 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.680 you're like, man, I waited way too long. You're gonna 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.919 start giving blood too much. Probably you're gonna be like, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.440 take my platelets, take up. I'll be like Peggy Hill, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.080 what happened to her. Oh she got into a blood 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.720 donating contest with her next door neighbor min basically to 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.639 see who was the most generous. That's pretty funny, and 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:57.080 she really went overboard. Did you eat some nutter butters 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.840 and have some juice nutter butters and uh a little 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.920 welch is um? Yeah? See. I used to not give 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.920 us blood blood as much because I was severely needle phobic. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.520 But um, needles have gotten so much smaller now. Ay 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.880 and um, if you get you know someone who does 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.040 how to do it properly, it's really not that bad. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.359 Oh No, it wasn't bad at all. I'm like, I 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.000 really am ashamed that I waited this long in my life. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.760 For years, years, honestly years, I was under the impression 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.960 that you couldn't give blood if you had a tattoo. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.639 Oh yeah, that old thing. Yeah. And then um, I 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.040 met you me and she was like, why why don't 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.199 you donate blood? Yeah? She's like, what's your problems? Right? 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.280 And I told her and she's like, no, that's not 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.240 true at all. Right, and then and then three or 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.760 four years five years later, six years later, I was like, 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.479 all right, let's do it. Well, you can make up 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.480 for it now. And hey people out there, you might 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.320 have some Josh Clark blood pump into your body soon. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.960 How about that? Pretty neat? What were you? I can't 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.119 remember your blood type? It was? It was you and 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.560 Jerry were the same positive beat. So am I We 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.240 have the same type, so a positive. I love that 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.400 Jerry speaks especially quietly. Can you make sure you edit 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.600 yourself out? Okay? Yeah, because you were both a positive 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.919 remember that because you made the joke I had the 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.199 same that you're a positive person or something like that. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.680 It's a good way to remember it. Jerry would have 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.280 known that we have the same blood type as she 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.760 came to our live show. Um, Jerry could get some 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.639 Josh blood. Do you know how upsetting that would be 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.040 for you? What if one you had to rely on 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.600 the other to live? Yeah, if like Jerry cut herself 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:35.720 and got some blood and it turned out to be mine, 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:41.000 if she cut herself. Uh, should we move to the bathtub, sir? 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:46.120 Let's um the old I'm gonna call it an old 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:49.480 wives tale that go get in the bathtub because that's 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.360 a really safe place in your home to withstand the tornado. 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:58.400 Because bathtubs are strong and and thick, and they're not. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.879 Though you were talking about houses being made of like 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.240 wood and drywall, A bathtubs just like a fiber lass 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.360 shell around a two by four frame. What's your bathtub 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:09.919 depends on what kind of bathtub you do. If you 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.000 have like an old cloth footed iron tub, that's what 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.480 I got. I could withstand anything and that thing. Okay, 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.960 so most people don't have that. They have and you think, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:18.359 like you're getting in a bathtub, you're like, oh, this 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.520 thing is pretty sturdy. But really, if you if you 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.159 could pick it up, it's just fireglass around two by fours. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.040 You're like, I've kicked a hole in the five bathtubs. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.359 It's easy. I'm on at least five. Uh. So the 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.640 logic is is that it's heavy, uh and sturdy. Um. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.200 And I think a lot of this logic came out 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.360 from the day when bathtubs were sturdier than they are now. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.000 I agree with you, But either way, it's not it's 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.240 only a good idea if that bathtub happens to be 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.960 in a safe part of your home. Precisely right, So, 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.879 in a safe party of your home is a room 0:20:53.920 --> 0:21:00.000 with no exterior facing walls, no exterior facing windows obviously. Um, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.720 if your bathtub is in a bathroom with an exterior 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.920 facing wall or exterior facing window, is that superfluouced I 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.879 need to say that, Um, just do not get in 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.720 your bathtub because that wall in that room is very 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.520 likely to be ripped apart by a tornado, even if 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.240 the rest of the house isn't. So you want to 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.719 go as much into the center of your house as 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.159 possible and as windowless a room as possible, say like 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.520 a closet inside your house, So surrounded by as many 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.080 rooms as possible. So, if you have a bathtub and 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.880 a kill dungeon, go to the kill dungeon you set. Yeah, 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.400 if you have a don't have a bathtub in there. 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:39.679 If you have a cloth at tub and the kill dungeon, 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.760 then you're you're golden. You could just go ahead and 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.520 take a bath, so chuck. Another legend about tornadoes seems 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:51.120 to be that they avoid cities. Yeah, but it's kind 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.520 of like the same thing as the mobile home thing. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:58.280 If my theory is incorrect. Um, where it just seems 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.840 that way. The reason why is because there's way more 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:06.720 rural area in the United States than there is city. Yeah, 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.400 even though most people live in cities. They're packed in there, 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:14.040 which is why we're all stressed out. That's right, of 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:18.960 the population in the US lives in urban centers. But 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:23.440 it happens Oklahoma City. Um in what year was this 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:28.840 two they had? They had one, one, two, huge, right, 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.920 and e F five And that is based on the 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.240 Fujita tornado scale. Could have sworn. We did a show 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:40.160 in tornadoes. I specifically remember saying that tornado is formed 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:45.159 because there's this a horizontal columns swirling air that eventually 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:49.560