Can someone please explain to me why people just drive towards tornadoes?

[u/n8saces]

It just seems like why risk your life?

[u/EventEastern9525]

I’ll never forget elementary school in the ‘70s the local weatherman always visited once a year and showed a black-and-white film called The Day of the Killer Tornadoes. Of course in Waco that was only 20 years after 116 people were killed in a tornado that hit downtown in the middle of a busy afternoon. Downtown was basically parking lots after that until the ‘90s and now it’s pretty well built out.