What an incredible tragedy...do we have any members/friends in the area?
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What an incredible tragedy...do we have any members/friends in the area?
We do, though I think most are safe. A number of them were checking in on FB.
-John
what's the verdict on this vs. joplin?
Worst tornado in recorded history is the word.
Jesus Christ
Anybody hear from Jrod?
A guy at work here has a friend that was in the Oklahoma tornado. She left her house and went to a friends house about 10min away that had a storm shelter. When they came out of the shelter the house was gone. Hit them dead center, her house 10 min away was untouched.
He is helping with the recovery effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by ictponder
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Wow...Quote:
Originally Posted by Vantage
makes me wish building codes in the USA were like here in germany.
All of us OK3s members are good. Everybody's cars are even undamaged. There were several close calls though. Several members live in that area. But unless you're right in its path you were spared. Hope spring time is over soon. Thanks for the concern guys.
There is NO building that would stand up to what went through here the other night. There were plenty of "safe" rooms that dissappeared. The only safe place was underground. :sigh:Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
Glad to hear man, the damage is unbelievable.Quote:
Originally Posted by $$$PIT
i'm sure not all of the damage could be prevented. that said, over on this side of the pond, walls aren't made on 16" centers with 2x4's. every interior wall is brick/cinderblock. houses here will take a LOT more punishment before giving up the ghost.Quote:
Originally Posted by $$$PIT
I'm almost 51 and I've seen plenty of twisters. Apparently you've never seen what a 200mph suction vacuum can do to a structure. Most of the houses that were hit were brick and there was nothing but the pad left. It pulled the grass out of the ground. Most "safe" rooms are poured solid 8inches (or thicker) and are reinforced with steel and wire. I know because I used to build houses and did several "safe" rooms. The storm that came through THIS time was probably one of the strongest EVER recorded.
We're used to EF1 -EF4. But this was another breed of twister.
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Originally Posted by IPD
"brick" house means nothing. in the USA, that usually means a facade, nothing more. as i said, i don't think it would prevent destruction; but the build quality over here would certainly cut down on the potential thereof.Quote:
Originally Posted by $$$PIT
Jeremy posted this in motivator thread but I thought it should be posted in here also.
Okla. tornado survivor finds dog buried alive under rubble - CBS News Video
I'm sure your houses are fantastic and would have no problem stopping a car, tree or another house traveling at 200mph.
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Originally Posted by IPD
california has building codes designed around the natural disasters common there (earthquakes). OK has no such regulations, to my knowledge.
Thadd, quit arguing with the tornado survivor! Lol
Nothing is going to stop an f5.
...what if we built a giant wooden badger....Quote:
Originally Posted by green-lantern
we don't need no stinking badgers
Kinda mystified about the news these schools had no tornado shelters.
Word is the schools are '60s-vintage, which would/should put them squarely in the middle of the Cold-War era.
Every school I ever attended (two of them built in the '60s) was designated a bomb-shelter, with underground cover.
Wtf was the mindset in Oklahoma in the '60s?
Weren't they subject to Cold War paranoia like everyone else?
And what about twisters?
IF you STILL think your houses would have made it through this, you can watch Mile Wide Tornado on Discovery channel tonight and reconsider.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
No no, IPD is the expert because he is in Germany. Even though F5 tornados can rip roads off the ground a standing German built house would survive just fine. Tis' but a flesh wound. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by $$$PIT
completely missing my point, yet again.
let me see if i can rephrase it in terms you can understand:
if an f5 tornado DIRECTLY hits your house, it's pretty much done for--regardless of how it was built. i'm not concerned with that. what i am concerned with is the distance from epicenter required to survive any given swath of tornado destruction. tornadoes are not just some magical entity where there are 270mph winds inside and 2 feet away, it's 0mph. the periphery of a tornado can be just as destructive to buildings--especially if they are of lower-grade construction. the point i'm making is that higher-quality building codes would NOT eliminate tornado damage, but it would certainly reduce is--vice building constructed with vinyl siding & 2x4's (for example).
likewise, as i alluded to earlier, earthquakes have a similar issue. now a 9.0 is likely to destroy pretty much everything, that's a given. however, the further from epicenter you get, the lower the number on the richter scale. a better constructed building may be able to withstand a 7.0 unscathed, whereas a lower quality building may be facing significant damage at 5.0.
we can't prevent natural disasters. and at the same time, (in my opinion) we can do something to potentially mitigate some of the damage. it's not an all-or-nothing equation.
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Originally Posted by IPD
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