How not to flee a tornado

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Remember when it was Tornado Awareness Week and the weather experts said you should use to figure out where you would go in a tornado? Remember all the time growing up when authorities told you don't use your vehicle for protection. Remember when they said don't try to outrun a tornado?
These oil patch workers don't.
(Caution: Obscenities follow)
Dan Yorgason,44, told the New York Daily News he wasn't really thinking the whole thing was funny.
This afternoon, the National Weather Service said the tornado, which critically injured a 15-year-old girl and hurt eight other people at a workers' camp, packed winds that peaked at 120 mph.
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