Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#1
Yet another terrible loss of life but what I fail to understand is why the buildings are so flimsy in such a regular tornado torn area. To loose ones home must be bad enough but to loose all the mementoes that are inside must be truly awful.
Why are they made of easy destroyable wood rather than brick or similar hard material. I know that even a strong building might be damaged but surely they would not end up flattened like the wooden ones.
If buildings can be earthquake proof surely they could or should be made tornado proof.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#2
"Why DO We Build Houses Out of Wood?"
http://savvycontractor.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/why-do-we-build-houses-out-of-wood.html
I have looked a bit further, but the site above has all the available answers.
There may be two others points to consider:-
1-per capita we in the UK are more prone to tornadoes
2-Strong winds do as much, if not more, damage from the inside, and once a brick wall is cracked or twisted it is still goodbye house.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
" After explaining all of this to our foreign exchange student he seemed a bit more understanding, but said that he would still want a house made out of a more durable material! "
I must admit so would I but if a house out there was about half the price of a more solid one I might change my mind, so long as I had a nice strong safe where I could store my precious mementoes.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#4
A tornado generates winds of up to 500km/h. Not many man-made structures will withstand that. Cheaper to rebuild in wood than brick.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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#5
I would think that a flying lump of brick or concrete would also do a lot more damage than wood.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#6
So let me get this straight, the Obama administration considers tornadoes a result of climate change and yet do nothing to help those imperilled by the danger. Instead they spend billions on research and once again put lives at the bottom of the chain.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10071972/US-tornado-Oklahoma-storm-shelter-plans-derailed-by-lack-of-federal-funding.htmlBrian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
canon fodder Philip canon fodder.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
- Posts: 727
#8
Just seen an elderly gent saying that everyone had storm shelters in his day and he could not understand why public buildings in this high risk area do not have them any more.
Thank goodness the death toll was not as bad as first reported.
