Re:What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)
by tomatotomato37 on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:12AM
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We do... on the East coast where the risk of a category 4 throwing a palm tree through your kitchen is higher than an earthquake causing all the bricks in your house to disassociate with one another. The Midwest is screwed either way with what tornados are capable of so they just build whatever is cheapest to rebuild
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Re:What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)
by NortySpock on Saturday April 04, 2020 @12:16PM
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I'll point out, as a midwesterner, that while we have tornadoes, they have a VERY narrow footprint vs a flood or earthquake or hurricane. There's plenty of houses around that are 50 to 100 years old.
But yes, the preferred strategy for dealing with a tornado is a basement, below-ground shelter (aka root cellar) or concrete-and-steel "panic room", all of which are designed to protect the occupants, not the entire house.