{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Jon Edlin - Tornado Preparedness and Survival","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1892,"description":"Jon Edlin, his wife, and two small children survived an EF-3 tornado that swept through their suburb of Nashville, Tennessee on a dark night in March 2020. Jon had grown up in Kansas, was used to hearing tornado reports, thought little of them, but quickly ushered his family into their \"safe space\" when meteorologists' alerts of a tornado on the ground in his neighborhood came through his cell line. All told, the tornado that night left a 63-mile swath of destruction... killing 25 people.\nHis house was wiped out, his cars crushed. Windows popped out, there was smashed glass everywhere, ceilings ripped away... all in the matter of seconds. Huddled over his daughter, and hanging on for dear life, Jon thought is was all over. But as fast as it came, soon it was silent, eerie quiet. It took two hours for a nearby cousin to get there, picking his way through the destruction and rubble and downed power lines to rescue Jon and his family. But they were spared... and the event changed his life.\nWhy had he been spared? What did others do wrong to be killed? And... what should others do to prepare for future tornadoes? This last question set Jon on a mission: To educate residents about how to prepare and to equip them with emergency kits. Within months of the tornado, Jon formed Edlin Tornado Solution. He wrote a guide that is available on Amazon, developed a backpack with essentials, and began to lecture on preparedness. He has become an important messenger of the realities of tornadic activity in Tornado Alley and in Dixie Alley where his home had been.\nJon describes that horrific night, from early TV reports of tornadoes in the area, to taking heed and sheltering, to the actual tornado and how it sounded like five jet engines roaring directly over him, and its aftermath. Jon dispels myths... like \"it could never happen to me.\" He makes clear that tornadoes are not predictable and now spread across a wide number of mid-western states... not just Kansas. \nJon and Ted...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}