User blog comment:Purple2/TORNADO WARNING HEEELLLPPP/@comment-1955802-20110117220727

Go to the basement if the siren sounds. Take a batter-operated radio that tunes into the NOAA (weather) forecasts and gives warnings. If you don't have a NOAA-type radio, take an ordinary battery-operated radio and tune into a station on the AM dial that usually gives weather warnings. Get under a heavy, sturdy table or other piece of furniture in the basement or get an old bed mattress and pull it over yourself and your family, including Fido or Fluffy and also hang onto something solid like a pipe or heavy piece of furniture. Do NOT go into the northeast corner, but stay in the middle of the basement, or if you have a enclosed room in the basement, get into that. If no basement, get into the center of your lowest floor (if possible) or in a closet or bathroom THAT HAS NO WINDOWS and again pull something like a matress (or pillow) over you all to protect from falling items or plaster.