| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Up in the Northern Territory they have cyclones every year which means they have special housing and construction laws which are to lessen the impact of bad weather by making them storm proof. Do they have anything like that in these places in the US because it seems to happen a lot there and you always see pictures of some fibro, wooden houses which are just ripped to bits and the like? |
not that i know of. at least, not in the midwest. i know down south, along the coast (at least in florida and the carolinas), construction is improving....especially after the onslaught of Hurricane Andrew back in 1992 when it hit Miami/homestead.
but yeah, in the midwest, especially in smaller communities like you see in KS/OK/MO/IA/NE, it's just older homes that all it takes is one piece of debris, and you've lost you're entire upstairs.
this morning, i watched a video on the weather channel of a family in greensburg: when they went into their basement, there was a couch from one of their neighbor's homes that had flown through the air, and thru their house and through the ground floor, into the basement. |
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