• @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Try rebuilding a brick wall after a tornado, you’re going to spend so much more money and you won’t have a house for a lot longer

    • Tippon
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      211 year ago

      That’s the other side of the confusion. You build houses out of sticks and paper, and live in somewhere called Tornado Alley…

      • Captain Aggravated
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        31 year ago

        Yeah, I live in an area prone to tornadoes. Not as tornado prone as the midwest, but we’ve seen tornadoes in this area.

        A particularly notable one touched down in a town not far from here, in the business district. It tore down multiple steel framed cinder block buildings including a Lowe’s Home Improvement Center and a Tractor Supply Company.

        A big bad wolf might not be able to blow a brick house down, but an EF3 tornado certainly can.

      • Rouxibeau
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        101 year ago

        It doesn’t need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it’s no longer structually sound.

      • Throwaway
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        31 year ago

        They do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.

      • @joel_feila
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        31 year ago

        Easy, can your brick house handle a 400 kph car flying into, follow by chunks of trees, houses, ice ball the size of grapfruit.