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Show posts MenuQuote from: artificer on April 14, 2012, 03:48:01 PM
If I lived in tornado alley, I'd be building a monolithic dome. There's at least one thats resisted a tornado. From wikipedia it appears to have been only an F2, but started as a strong F3+. Still... a direct hit with virtually no damage. Build it stronger, and it should take the hit from a F4 or F5, as long as it didn't get sucked up into the air.
As for stupid people... I like the story about the idiot that built his house on stilts in the floodplain, and complains that he just couldn't believe this would ever happen to him, just like last years flooding.
High priced houses on the ocean that slide down the hill, east coast houses that can't take huricane force winds, houses in flood plains that are destroyed when they get flooded... it makes you wonder. Except for the "my property has slid into the ocean", most of the damages could be minimized if the buildings were constructed correctly. Insurance, and the demand that houses are boxes means theres always going to be a lot of rebuilding.
Michael
Edit: Cool!!! here's an F3 tornado against a monolithic dome. And how about the "Tornado Tamer" door.