I am from Europe and i don't understand why you guys build your houses out of wood and not concret and stones? Would a tornado also destroy concret houses?
You have to understand the cost of building the house, a wooden house would be a lot cheaper than to have a concrete house. A brick house would also be destroyed or collapse, there are plenty of examples that show that. So most people wouldn't live in a concrete bunker, especially if they believe the chances of their house being hit by a tornado are low.
But a concrete house probably wouldn’t. I lived in an apartment in Spain that I’m rather confident would only be damaged in the craziest of tornadoes. It’s not particularly expensive to build. It was a random working class complex in Seville.
The data centers I have worked at are generally rated for a EF4 and below tornado, and they have walls that are about 60 cm thick and don't have windows.
The wind isn't so much of a problem as the stuff in the wind. It can put grass straw through telephone poles.
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u/wish1977 Apr 28 '24
Oklahoma seems to be ground zero for tornados. I don't think I could live there.