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Arkansas Granny

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2. The parents don't know and can't know what is the best or safest course to take in a situation

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 04:14 PM

May 2013

like that. They just have to trust their gut instincts and hope for the best outcome. I don't know what decision I would have made in that circumstance, but I just might have decided that they were safer at the school than they would have been in a vehicle out in the storm.

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"Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down" [View all] uppityperson May 2013 OP

if i had kids datasuspect May 2013 #1

Getting to them, sure, but then what? Donald Ian Rankin May 2013 #3

The parents don't know and can't know what is the best or safest course to take in a situation Arkansas Granny May 2013 #2

Yup. No matter what you chose, it could be very wrong. I saw a row of cars on highway, if it'd hit uppityperson May 2013 #5

hind sight is always 20/20. There was no way they could have known it would be an EF-5. liberal_at_heart May 2013 #4