Dad was a bad handyman

he should have just grabbed on to his wife. No way that twister would have lifted him out

God, there are soooo many things wrong with that first scene in the movie, I think I'll do a separate post about it. Already talked about it on Quora, may as well mention it here.

Why didn't he let go? Maybe his wife was planning something for bedtime and he wanted out of his misery and held on tight.

The idea is that the tornado was an F5, which has wind speeds of 450khp+. Pretty sure that no wooden door would stop that. The dad however was an idiot for trying to hold the door down. He was never gonna win and the door blowing off wouldn't be horrible as long as they stayed in the back of the shelter.

Ha, if he just stayed with his family he would have lived.