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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
1. The tornado in Harrisburgh, Illinois claimed two lives who were my Detroit friend's aunts.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:34 PM
Mar 2012

We are tied together is so many ways.

Thank you for caring, malaise!

monmouth

(21,078 posts)
4. My friend in Eldorado said two friends of her aunt and uncle were killed. They were babysitting.n/t
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:42 PM
Mar 2012

pinto

(106,886 posts)
2. Yeah. The reports of the "tornado train" are amazing.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:37 PM
Mar 2012

Both the sheer number of tornado reports and the expanse of the line of storms.

aquart

(69,014 posts)
5. Stay safe, all.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:43 PM
Mar 2012

Seems to me that there is a potential American industry in developing housing that outwits our new weather norms.

I want heavy-money competitions in our architectural and engineering schools.

Hey, billionaire job-creators, GET BUSY.

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
10. It's old tech. You want new building codes.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 06:25 PM
Mar 2012

Stick houses never were meant to handle wind. They were easy to build when we had an excess of wood, now they're just habit.

Earth, concrete, block, brick, stone, metal, all make windproof houses. Half-buried passive solar houses are ideal, as they are buried sideways instead of down, so they're no more susceptible to flooding than any other house.

HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
6. It's supposed to ramp up here in central NC
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 03:45 PM
Mar 2012

along about dark. This is not good news.

NC has the dubious distinction of having the most night-time tornadoes in the US.

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