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I’ve been wondering where the safest spot in my home would be in the event of a tornado.

I live in a condo in an upstairs unit; however, the only thing below me are garages. I have access to one of the garages, which also has a small storage closet (thin walls). Within my condo, there are rooms that don’t have windows, but technically there are no interior rooms that don’t share a wall with the outside perimeter of the house.

Aside from that, there is a hallway outside that connects my unit to another building, the hallway is concrete, one side has a fire door that can be closed, but the other side is open and leads to another hallway that opens up outside.

Where is the safest space for me to go in the event of a tornado?

Hi everyone I was working on doing some writing because I really wanted to go cross country skiing around in the snowy dark. So I wrote memory I have about walking along Lake Michigan in a blizzard by myself. If you want to read it and let me know what you think, I would appreciate it. Any Criticism or suggestions, grammar corrections are welcome you can also make fun of me if you want. On a side note, I was wearing the proper gear.

This is the start of the story, not this part but the words after this.

This was when I was in my early 20’s or sometime around there, I know for certain I had my first ever cellphone. Anyway it was decades ago. There was a huge blizzard coming in and I decided to put on my snowboarding gear and walk to Warren dunes by way of weko beach. From my parents at lake and red arrow. I get down to the beach and It’s mesmerizing. It’s just me in empty expanse and a violent force of mother nature.It’s also kind of creepy and eerie being there alone . That being said this experience is etched in my mind forever. Being out on the shore of Lake Michigan walking along the beach in massive blizzard and snow blowing sideways. With the snow being so white and reflective that you don’t need a flashlight. I had one anyway. There is the unmistakable sound of the waves battering against the distance ice some unknown yardage away. If it wasn’t for the rare beast of a wave breaking into the ice wall at a hard enough force to splash the water into a gallons of droplets and that event was slightly reflected by some lamps a distance up shore I could see how far the ice shelf ended. I stayed on the shore . I remember to myself I would think When there were no large waves to judge the distance of the water and it’s was just the sound of the cold wind and crashing waves in the snow-lit darknes. You would think the water was a few feet away, Waiting, to send a silent towering wave to wash over the ice to swallow me and drag me out to an icy grave. Surly a terrible death. That thought gave me quite a bit of stress when you start worrying about this vindictive wave out there on its destine path and me the same. I knew The water was about 200 yards away. But that didn’t ease this fear. Way out in the distance you could see the dark water of one of the most intense storms I’ve ever seen on the the lake. And I’ve seen a lot of storms but a blizzard a spectacle of Mother Nature.

Because it was so isolated, desolate and breathtaking not just because of the beauty also the cold and it was so windy I could lean against the wind it was really cool

Thanks for reading this if you did.

Wynn