What the fuck do you people build your houses with? From those images it seems like you yanks shun exotic materials like brick and cement and tend to opt for wood and plastic... what's the deal with that? Don't you think it would be nice to build windproof houses if you live in a place where these storms tend to happen? Or is this just some sort of massive high risk insurance scam i'm not getting?

What the fuck do you people build your houses with? From those images it seems like you yanks shun exotic materials like brick and cement and tend to opt for wood and plastic... what's the deal with that? Don't you think it would be nice to build windproof houses if you live in a place where these storms tend to happen? Or is this just some sort of massive high risk insurance scam i'm not getting?

What the fuck do you people build your houses with? From those images it seems like you yanks shun exotic materials like brick and cement and tend to opt for wood and plastic... what's the deal with that? Don't you think it would be nice to build windproof houses if you live in a place where these storms tend to happen? Or is this just some sort of massive high risk insurance scam i'm not getting?

damn ur a moron...the tornado demolished steel and stone structures too...

What the fuck do you people build your houses with? From those images it seems like you yanks shun exotic materials like brick and cement and tend to opt for wood and plastic... what's the deal with that? Don't you think it would be nice to build windproof houses if you live in a place where these storms tend to happen? Or is this just some sort of massive high risk insurance scam i'm not getting?

That doesn't change the fact that building houses out of plywood is goddamn pathetic. It's just one step above the corrugated iron they use in south african slums.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but the majority of the houses that were hit yesterday were brick homes...

lol, I guarantee if this tornado had gone through any of your neighborhoods, you'd have the same outcome...

You could just pick up a baseball bat and smash straight through your house's wall.

Is this based on your expertise as an acedemic meteorologist or practical architect?

Reinforced with what, more plywood and plastic?

I refuse to believe that a structure under 8 stories tall built with reinforced concrete would give even pretend to give a shit about any sort of wind. Sure, i can see how the debris is deadly when it gets tossed around with such violence - but hey here's an idea, if you people would bother building structurally sound houses there would be far less debris to be thrown around in the first place.

That's not even a meter or so of penetration, and that curb is obviously made of non reinforced concrete, because why the hell would anyone do that. Now i'm no engineer, but i bet Drums left testicle that if that curb had been made out of the same materials you build houses of for some inexplicable reason, the whole fucking thing would have shattered.

There's a certain incomprehensible fatalism in this argument... because things made out of concrete, steel and stone still get damaged, we might as well build everything out of plywood, because nothing can stop the sheer power of a hurricane. Seriously? Ok.

Is this based on your expertise as an acedemic meteorologist or practical architect?

holy shit you're stupid... but keep going, this is gold that you're posting

It's based on my expertise of this forum and coming to the conclusion that Ryoki and Eraser are extremely pretentious and think they're an expert on eveything. But in reality they know nothing of the power of tornados and nothing of the way people build their homes in other places of the world, except with what they've seen on some renovation program on TV...

There's a certain incomprehensible fatalism in this argument... because things made out of concrete, steel and stone still get damaged, we might as well build everything out of plywood, because nothing can stop the sheer power of a hurricane. Seriously? Ok.

No doubt brick houses would be better suited ! but houses along the south coast of England shed their roofs at the 1st sign of a breeze, 200mph is a tall order.

You'd think people in these areas would atleast try to minimise the damage and do what the UK does by using brick instead, so that they don't fall over. It wouldn't be hard to believe that the majority of damage is caused outside of the tornados footprint n all, away from the higher windspeeds.

I do fail to understand use of wood for building materials in yankland, anyone can buy a plot of land and build a shed. Infact they do, they're called pikeys, you don't need planning permission for the 1st 15 years cos technically its not a house.