Show methods of escaping from tornadoes grasp the old time cyclone cellar or outdoor care has probably been the means of saving inore lives from tor nadies tao anything else and Is still of the best places of refuge ever the corner of the basement of a frame house Is al most as site especially it a person crouches close against the nail tornadoes nearly always approach from the south or west and filing debris or perhaps the house itself will be car aled awa from the southwest comer the basement of a brick or stone house 1 liable to be n death trap ID a tornado ns brick or masonry walls are liable to collapse and tumble down anywhere A person caught in the open when a tornado approaches has a choice of lying down flat in a depression or of flight tornadoes travel the country at a rate of thirty to sixty miles per hour usually and escape for a person in an automobile Is simple if there are highways open A person on foot directly in the path of such a fiona should run toward the northwest which Is at right angles to the storm path and toward alie fide where the winds are least violent kansas city times |