"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.
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.