What kind of idiot do you have to be to not invest in a tornado shelter in fucking Kansas. It seems like places like that should be investing a lot more in deeper homes and protective earthen mounds.
People in the country and smaller towns understand that. It was mostly about, what else, but dealing with the terminal retards in the bigger cities like Topeka, Lawrence, and Overland Park. Where they wouldnt build shelters on new houses because "Tornado's dont hit big cities, it is a waste of money" and everyone else in the state had to drag them kicking and screaming going "No, you retards, that is a great way to get people killed for what is only a few thousand extra dollars to a new house". Also, the eternal menace known as "The HOA" is responsible for earth berms not being built in cities even though you can just use fill dirt from other job sites to create the berm needed.
But I do see earth berms out in the country and they are becoming more common. If I ever came into money and could build my own dream home, I would certainly want to build one. The main downside I have heard for them though for why they are not more common is that once they are built they cant get any bigger (as opposed to expansions added for traditional homes).
"Tornado's dont hit big cities, it is a waste of money"
Yeah, tornadoes absolutely hit cities, it's just that tornadoes are so small and "not city" comprises such a huge land mass that they don't tend to hit cities as much as "not city". When they do hit cities, the casualties multiply by ten-fold.
It is especially "funny" because a tornado that hit Topeka in the 1960's is still one of the most destructive tornado's in history (luckily low death count, but hundreds injured and caused what would now be $1B in damage). But apparently they think "No, that was a fluke. It will never happen again, so we dont need to prepare." Like I said, the legislature had to drag them kicking and screaming into sanity.
Although worth pointing out is that skyscrapers are actually built to handle a tornado just by the nature of the things that have to go into building them in the first place. Although obviously you will want to get into the interior away from the outside glass facades.
See, I wouldn't be so confident a skyscraper could take a tornado. Given the debris traveling at over 200 mph, the sky-scraper might be able to handle winds at that speed, but maybe not cars, roofs, light poles, and cows at that speed.
People in the country and smaller towns understand that. It was mostly about, what else, but dealing with the terminal retards in the bigger cities like Topeka, Lawrence, and Overland Park. Where they wouldnt build shelters on new houses because "Tornado's dont hit big cities, it is a waste of money" and everyone else in the state had to drag them kicking and screaming going "No, you retards, that is a great way to get people killed for what is only a few thousand extra dollars to a new house". Also, the eternal menace known as "The HOA" is responsible for earth berms not being built in cities even though you can just use fill dirt from other job sites to create the berm needed.
But I do see earth berms out in the country and they are becoming more common. If I ever came into money and could build my own dream home, I would certainly want to build one. The main downside I have heard for them though for why they are not more common is that once they are built they cant get any bigger (as opposed to expansions added for traditional homes).
Yeah, tornadoes absolutely hit cities, it's just that tornadoes are so small and "not city" comprises such a huge land mass that they don't tend to hit cities as much as "not city". When they do hit cities, the casualties multiply by ten-fold.
It is especially "funny" because a tornado that hit Topeka in the 1960's is still one of the most destructive tornado's in history (luckily low death count, but hundreds injured and caused what would now be $1B in damage). But apparently they think "No, that was a fluke. It will never happen again, so we dont need to prepare." Like I said, the legislature had to drag them kicking and screaming into sanity.
Although worth pointing out is that skyscrapers are actually built to handle a tornado just by the nature of the things that have to go into building them in the first place. Although obviously you will want to get into the interior away from the outside glass facades.
See, I wouldn't be so confident a skyscraper could take a tornado. Given the debris traveling at over 200 mph, the sky-scraper might be able to handle winds at that speed, but maybe not cars, roofs, light poles, and cows at that speed.