Another thing you shouldn't do in a severe storm, especially tornado weather, is get out of your vehicle. There has long been this idiotic wive's tale about ho

Another thing you shouldn't do in a severe storm, especially tornado weather, is get out of your vehicle. There has long been this idiotic wive's tale about how you should get out of your car and take cover in a ditch or culvert or something. That's the worst thing you can do. If the winds are powerful enough to pick up your car, imagine how easily they could throw a piece of sheet metal through your abdomen. Or pick you up like a rag doll. You would be much better off riding it out buckled into that steel cage. Having grown up in tornado country, I have always thought this. But i finally saw some research confirming this from the university of Oklahoma.