Frequency and severity of natural disasters is slamming US [Video]

At least five people are dead and more than 100 injured after tornadoes swept across Oklahoma over the weekend. The severe weather came less than 36 hours after more than 100 tornadoes leveled homes and buildings in six states on Friday, with Nebraska and Iowa being hit hardest.

Tornadoes in the nation’s midsection are not a surprise, especially during the springtime. But so many of them all at once can be alarming.

“There’s the moist, warm air from the Gulf of Mexico kind of interacting with drier air from the mountains. And in the plains areas, that’s the kind of recipe for severe weather,” Eugene Cordero, professor of meteorology and climate science at San Jose State University, told KCBS Radio. “These big thunderstorms with lightning and hail, heavy downpours of rain. And sometimes, a lot of tornado outbreaks.”

While there’s nothing we can do to stop tornadoes from happening, technology …