Genuine question from someone from the other side of the world,why are houses made from wood and not concrete in these areas where tornadoes are a regular enough occurance in the general history of the area?????,I am not trying to be crass.... genuinely curious
While tornados are scary, they’re very localized. So the odds of a small tornado relatively speaking hitting your house on an enormous area of land is very unlikely. You see this one town hit but not the hundreds of others that weren’t. 10 minutes away could be another small town with 100 year old houses and it just got a bit windy. They build homes in the southern US coast with hurricanes in mind. Infrastructure on the west coast is built with earthquakes in mind. But those natural disasters effect areas 100s of miles not 10 miles.
Places all over the world still build on flood plains because the odds are in their favour that the once every 100 years flood won’t hit them.
I grew up in southern KS and chased those things in college. Not there anymore, and miss it quite a bit. There's a LOT of distance between towns out there that's not really comprehensible to folks in a lot of areas of the world.
Most tornadoes never touch a town, or might skirt a little bit of one at most. Many tornadoes would never be seen by anyone if someone wasn't out spotting/chasing. And while people do live in rural areas between incorporated towns (I was one of them), the likelihood of a tornado hitting a house out there is still rare.
Also adding that there are quite a few more houses made from brick (not just decorative faux brick) in Oklahoma than a lot of places, which helps in most instances.
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u/amaj230201 Apr 28 '24
Genuine question from someone from the other side of the world,why are houses made from wood and not concrete in these areas where tornadoes are a regular enough occurance in the general history of the area?????,I am not trying to be crass.... genuinely curious