HOW TO PROTECT YOUR HOME against tornadoes and hurricanes. “If an EF5 tornado barrels over your home, there’s not much you can do about it. But barring the very worst, there is a compendium of technology available to prepare for the high winds of tornadoes and hurricanes, from hurricane clips to make your roof connections a little stronger to ultra-tough materials that can protect your safe room against 2 x 4s flying around like missiles.”

We were awakened in the middle of the night last night by a tornado warning for a storm that never even came close to our house, but that hit north Knox County pretty hard. I’m happy to have the weather radio to warn us, but we’re beginning to suffer tornado-warning fatigue.

UPDATE: This advice on programming your weather radio is good, but mine’s actually set to ignore all but the highest-level warnings — tornado, tsunami, that sort of thing, and only for my county. (Though if there’s ever a tsunami warning for Knoxville, I’m not sure I want to know.) Nonetheless, we’ve gotten so many warnings this year that it’s getting old. That’s never happened before.