Texas has just been hit with another tornadoe and it done the usual uprooted trees ,blown over trucks and wrecking homes...just watched it on the beeb where a homeowner is looking and taking pictures of his house with the roof missing..but if you have a good look his and thousands of homes that have been wrecked are only timber frame...with cladding ...my garden shed is built stronger than these....surely all new homes and rebuilt ones should be a certain standard with steel frames embedded well into the ground and walls/roofs strong enough to stop or at least keep the damage down.
Tornadoes is USA
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Different culture.
You can spend hundreds of thousands making a massively reinforced frame (remember all the cladding, windows and roofing would still be ripped of anyway, unless that was also vastly over-engineered and tied to the steel frame = far too much money).
Or you can just knock up another house for a fraction of the cost.
Remember that whilst a tornado is a "regular" event on a national scale, it's not like an individual house is being levelled every 10 years.
You can spend hundreds of thousands making a massively reinforced frame (remember all the cladding, windows and roofing would still be ripped of anyway, unless that was also vastly over-engineered and tied to the steel frame = far too much money).
Or you can just knock up another house for a fraction of the cost.
Remember that whilst a tornado is a "regular" event on a national scale, it's not like an individual house is being levelled every 10 years.
many more of them have basements than we do, so they have somewhere to shelter.
when I was visiting, the people mentioned that to me, but although the basement walls were concrete, the floor above was just OSB, not rc, so I suspecit it would get sucked away.
when I was visiting, the people mentioned that to me, but although the basement walls were concrete, the floor above was just OSB, not rc, so I suspecit it would get sucked away.
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I hope everyone is ok! Keep us updated please[/i]
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Must be worth living there to take the risk.
I would certainly not risk my family there that is for sure.
I would certainly not risk my family there that is for sure.
