Opening windows allows damaging winds to enter the structure.
Open windows and doors during tornado.
Opening the windows is absolutely useless a waste of precious.
The idea of opening windows and doors in the event of a tornado an effort to equalize pressure is a waste of time noaa said.
Open windows and doors in other words resulted in an airborne roof source.
The other argument that opening the windows on one side of the house and not the other might cause more internal air pressure is also false.
Leave the windows alone.
Windows should be opened before a tornado to equalize pressure and minimize damage.
It is now believed that a solid structure no windows or doors open has.
Researchers found it didn t hold up.
Cracking the windows could even cause a house to explode.
Many people near a tornado tell of their ears popping due to the pressure change.
A better defense is covering openings with reinforced plywood so air flows over not into the house.
That s usually out other windows or doors or through the ceiling or roof.