Passing Bridge no 84.027 on the Kansas Turnpike, near El Dorado, famous as the bridge under which a KSN tv crew took shelter during a 1991 tornado. As the crew, still filming, approached the bridge with a tornado bearing down on them, they advised several others who had stopped their cars underneath to, “get up under the girders.”
The tornado marginally missed the bridge and everyone survived. But the video (see below) is widely credited for popularizing the myth that bridges are safe places to shelter during tornadoes. Most bridges are extremely dangerous places to shelter during a tornado, according to today’s guidance.
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