Scientifically speaking, how much evidence is there (really) that getting out of your car and "laying in a ditch" is really safer than just driving the fuck away from a tornado. What exactly qualifies as a ditch? What if it's basically flat and there is no ditch? I'm supposed to just hop over to the side of the road and wait for a F4 monster to drop all the traffic right on top of me? Where did this goofy advice come from, and why should we trust any more than the now DEBONKED advice to hide under an overpass (whoops LE SCIENCE works in mysterious ways I guess haha). 

>dude your car won't protect you from a 2x4 going 300 mph

>haha so just get out so that NOTHING is protecting you haha I'm smart and contrarian

I'm surprised someone hasn't taken a flight suit in willingly

>>15409181 (OP)

Honestly what the fuck is happening with all the tornadoes at the moment? Like Flordia, Virgina, Alabama, I didnt even know those places got them. Funny thing is I've lived through 4-5 of them in the plains and the season's been dead silent for the past few years.

>>15409181 (OP)

Not science or math >>>/adv/ >>>/out/

Florida has always gotten lots of very weak tornadoes, many are just waterspouts that come up on land for a short time. Hurricanes also spin off a lot of weak ones.

Wrong, I'm not asking about adventures or anecdotes, I'm asking about scientific arguments and evidence for how to survive. This is a serious thread that could potentially save lives. People were fed the totally nonsensical advice to get under an underpass, and now we are expected to uncritically believe the next retarded batch of nonsense about just "laying down somewhere" totally unprotected.

>Honestly what the fuck is happening with all the tornadoes at the moment?

The news media is trying to scare you by reporting minor tornadoes that would never have been reported before outside their locality.

a nuke would destroy a tornado.

It's interesting. We have tons of videos of storm chasers driving right up to the things and constantly darting around and away in their cars. They're not particularly well trained drivers. They know to look out for satellite tornadoes and sudden turns/spikes in danger, but they're also intentionally staying as close as they can to the things as opposed to the average person who would just be driving "away". Frankly, if you can see the tornado and you're in your car, driving perpendicular/away is the obvious thing to try.

No it seems that places that used to get very weak tornadoes now get destructive ones.
