h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You can tell I culled some of this from a US govt. handout can't you.
> Avoid shopping Malls.

First thing some people do when they hear a warning about potential tornadoes is go shopping.

>You can obtain safe water by melting ice cubes.

Yes that's right. Just fill up the tray with dirty water and pop them in the fridge. That Fujita Scale is about as useful as a wet sock too. It was worked out from computer modelling. And that's where it belongs. A cross reference tool for a database.

The best advice in open country is to lie down in a ditch. Of course when the locals lived in tents you could just walk awyay from a storm like that. Nowadays you are constrained by roads and barbed wire.

Lying down in a ditch under a thunderstorm with giant hailstones in just doesn't do it for me. If I'm going to go getting hit on the head by a bowl of petunias whilst imitating a shopping trolley, I'd like to see it coming.