Great news, 55 F350! The Man Upstairs delivers!

 

YAY!!!

 

Unless you know something the rest of the country doesn't where are the tornadoes likely to be? How many states would we have to not build in? We had a tornado hit near my parents when I was a kid, but haven't had one since, should the neighbors not have rebuilt? Towns in South Dakota near where I lived out there for a few years were wiped off the map, but never had been hit before, and haven't been hit since, should they not have rebuilt?

Tornadoes are unpredictable, there is no way to know where or when they will develop or even cause damage. There are hundreds that occur each year that cause little to no real damage, If we went by the thinking that there should be no building where they occur, you couldn't build anywhere in the central US. Hurricanes are more predictable than tornadoes, but that would mean no building anywhere near the sea coast. Flooding is one that can be easier to predict what areas would be affected, but even that is hard to tell, as some are such rare events or freak occurances. Now if they experience regular flooding, sure there should be either expensive or no flood coverage, and the risk be their own. In the case of locations like New Orleans, building below seal level is never a smart thing.

 

I was just posing a rhetorical question, not suggesting the entire tornado/hurricane zone be depopulated.

In light of the previous posts, I propose we celebrate the survival of the woman and her children.

We can quibble about building codes etc another time.

Thanks for the update on that.

 

I can understand that we can't control the tornadoes and hurricanes, but we have gotten smarter about flood prone areas. You have areas that are designated as 50 or 100 year flood plains and in areas of repeated flooding the gov has been buying people out and so they can move. If you decide to stay then no more relief if you flood again. They have even moved entire towns. I'm on a 50 year flood plain but when I bought it nobody even worried or even mentioned it.

 

from my experience and i have been in a few of them and two of them in tractor trailers i was driving , and nowhere to go , you could be living in a home made of 2 inch thick steel all around and if maw nature was to decide to knock it over with a tornado she will do it . there isn't , nor ever will be a building that can be safe from them or an earthquake . maybe a little tougher , but not indestructible !! she is a mean spirited ol' girl at times and she likes to show mankind our folly every once in a while .

 

I have been an insurance adjuster for 20 plus years. Last year I looked at houses in Smithville, MS where an EF-5 tornado touched down and wiped the town off the map. I have never seen damage that showed the shear power of the winds from that tornado.

Cars that I could not identify bent in a u shape around trees and poles. A dent in the city water tank where a car had bounced off of it over a hundred feet in the air. A F-250 and the driver were picked up off the highway and carried 2.5 miles in the air and dropped in a field. A backhoe was needed to get the F-250 out of the ground. The list goes on. I was amazed that anyone survived.

 

I live in the middle of missouri. And last tuesday my work got hit.

I work for Tracker Marine (boats sold at bass pro ,Bass Tracker) it ripped part of roof off and tossed boats everywhere. I was outta work for a week but went back today. It scary cause i dont live far. It is just a hit/miss with tornadoes. Tracker was in middle of town but nothing else got effected.

I just moved from an apartment to a single wide mobile home. It just rained at my house but really got bad in town. Its scary specially at night when you cant see whats goin on.