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 == Zero explanation of the ""why"" behind Mike Morgan's call for evacuation == 

 As it stands, the article makes it seem like the standing NWS advice to jump in your double-wide's bathtub is a guaranteed path to safety. Perhaps after the monster widest-ever EF5 turns your prefab house into matchsticks it will gently deposit you and the bathtub in the next county over like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz?  

 Not to put a bummer on the condemnation parade, but the general consensus among meteorologists (read: not public affairs officers) since the Greensburg and Joplin EF5s has been ""In a car or in your hall closet, an EF5 is going to kill you."" The stats back this up; both of those storms had plenty of people sheltering fearfully in closets and bathtubs and they died anyway. NWS, being a government agency, continues to insist that some should be condemned to certain death in order to avoid the much-dreaded ""civil panic"" that all good government employees fear most of all. Despite the fact that Morgan could clearly see that the tornado on radar was definitely an EF4-5, he evidently should have told those people a bunch of crap instead of giving them the slimmest hope of survival. 

 If you can sit there and say you'd rather shelter in a bathtub than run from an EF5, you deserve the death you've got coming to you.   "