Upon checking wikipedia, apparently there actually are tornadoes in Germany, but I don't think they're ever as destructive as in the US. It probably has do to with climate-related things, because I understand that for a tornado to form, there needs to be certain weather circumstances.
Being very land locked as a lot to do with it, I believe, as well as the terrain. Mountainous areas like Utah do get tornadoes but not as often as areas like the midwest. Although Utah can get some pretty psychotic winds.
We have a basement now - a nice basement, thank goodness. In our old house we had a small, leaky cellar that was horrible to wait in. One time we even had a gas leak in the cellar, didn't even know it until we started getting light headed. We always semi-joke how that year that particular tornado actually saved our lives.
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Date: 2011-06-23 05:18 pm (UTC)From:Being very land locked as a lot to do with it, I believe, as well as the terrain. Mountainous areas like Utah do get tornadoes but not as often as areas like the midwest. Although Utah can get some pretty psychotic winds.
We have a basement now - a nice basement, thank goodness. In our old house we had a small, leaky cellar that was horrible to wait in. One time we even had a gas leak in the cellar, didn't even know it until we started getting light headed. We always semi-joke how that year that particular tornado actually saved our lives.