Tornado Drill

[rmc20021]

I had a tornado drill with my dck's this morning. We went through the whole routine and talked about tornado's. My little (almost) 4 yo dcg said that she had seen a tornado before.

I asked her to tell us about it and she said, "Yeah, there was a tornado under my bed." It took me a minute but then I figured out her mom had probably told her her room, or under her bed looked like a tornado hit it.

Now with the funny out of the way, I have a question for everyone. How do you alert you dck's for tornado drills? I use my smoke alarm for fire drills, but I have only used my own verbal beeping sound for tornado's. Is there something else that would be better????

[Solandia]

Our town tests the sirens the first Tuesday of every month at 10am. That is when we do our storm drill, usually one of the kids hears it before I do. We pile into the bathroom (the only interior room on the ground floor). One kid gets to hold the shakey flashlight, another gets to play with the wind-up weather radio, and another gets to flip on/off the lights. Good times, lol.

[rmc20021]

Wish we had something like that...every town should. We have an emergency siren that goes off once per month...on Saturday

[SilverSabre25]

Our tornado sirens are tested every Wednesday at noon. Every march on one Wednesday there's a Statewide tornado drill at like 9 AM.

If you have tornado sirens you could get a recording and play it when it's time for the drill.

[MyAngels]

I found a ringtone for my phone that sounds like the tornado siren, so I set an alarm for whatever day I'm doing drills and make the alert that sound.

[rmc20021]

Originally Posted by MyAngels

I found a ringtone for my phone that sounds like the tornado siren, so I set an alarm for whatever day I'm doing drills and make the alert that sound.

I like this idea!!!!