Salmon in 1879, however, he completed no work upon the claims. The claims which eventually made up the Lowell Mine were first located by W.S. However, as the Bisbee Mining District spread south and east as more claims were made and more mines opened, houses and businesses followed sprouting up wherever a vacant spot could be found. The one street that is left features mid-century buildings, signs, and artifacts in a colorful display that makes visitors feel as if they have taken a step back in time.īisbee, the “Cooper Queen” of Arizona, got its start in the 1870s in the steep wooded canyon northeast of Lowell. Though the majority of the original townsite was consumed by the excavation of the Lavender Pit mine during the 1950s, what remains today is a photographer’s dream.
Save yourself and save others by getting to the nearest safe shelter.Lavender Pit in Bisbee, Arizona by Kathy Alexander. This is a serious threat to emergency response vehicles and traffic that must get through the mess. One hazard of lots of people crowding into an underpass is that they abandon their cars on the roadway, or at least leave them close enough to the road to be strewn across it by tornado-strength winds. Just one more note of caution (as if you need more) about staying away from underpasses in a tornado. Remember, too, that when the tornado passes, the winds will suddenly change again, and debris will go haywire. Even fine matter can cause serious damage (think vision loss if particles get in your eye), and we don't have to tell you what big hunks of rubble can do. The wind tunnel produced by the underpass is a perfect atmosphere for flying matter, big and small. This creates another underpass hazard: debris. That means that even if the tip of the twister is above the underpass, the winds below and around it have enormous power. Remember, it's not just the cone-shaped part of the tornado that causes damage the winds extend far beyond it. The result is that the wind in the underpass will be stronger than the wind above it or on the ground. And, really, an underpass' specific construction makes it particularly unsafe.Īs a tornado approaches an underpass, it will create a wind tunnel effect. But the key is that the shelter needs to be a well-constructed building or underground shelter. And in general, it really is a good idea to find a shelter in a tornado. Honestly, it's not a crazy thought – as we said, large concrete structures seem like a great place to ride out a storm with winds of hundreds of miles per hour. People have done it, but they're lucky sons of guns. It doesn't help that there are some famous anecdotal stories about weathering a storm in an underpass. Before we get into why underpasses are pretty terrible places to hunker down in a twister, let's talk a little about the logic people employ when choosing these concrete tunnels as shelter. There are many reasons underpants would not be safe in a tornado – we'll assume you can figure out the big ones – but you might be surprised to learn that they'd make just about as good of a tornado shelter as an underpass. Perhaps you initially read this title incorrectly and thought the question was whether underpants were safe during a tornado.
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