You can get a storm proof brickhouse that can take a tornade and not move a inch. But most Americans rather want a cheap house, because nothing bad ever happens to them.
I've wondered that every time I see the devastation of a tornado in the news
Thing is, the odds of any specific house, or other structure, getting hit by a tornado during the lifetime of that building are very, very, very, low even where I live in tornado alley, or on the fringes of tornado alley, in Missouri, depending which reference and what date.
Odds are something like 5,000 to 1, aka zero point zero two percent, 0.02%, for the lifetime of any specific building in question.
From a Kansas City TV station here's a thing where it shows what states are in Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley,
(originally posted a couple years ago, some content has been updated since posting)
Tornadoes can happen anytime, anywhere, but they’re more likely to form east of the Rocky Mountains.
www.kshb.com
From the Storm Prediction Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
is a 25 year average per state per month of how many tornadoes,
A couple weeks ago we had an EF-3 tornado go about 10 to 12 miles from my home.
And we here at my home had 3 different tornado warnings before morning coffee break time.
I know several people who were impacted by that tornado's damage.
While tens of, hundreds of, thousands of the rest of us in the region were not at all impacted.
Tornado damage looks spectacular on TV and gets a strong emotional response.
But the reality is, that given the number of houses in the US, and, the very low probability of any given house, or any other structure, ever getting hit by a tornado,
It is neither practical nor even possible to construct every structure on this continent, or even just the houses, or even just within tornado alley,
in a way they will survive a direct hit from a moderate to severe tornado.
The concept of constructing every house, every building, thusly rates right up there with
"The US should have built every B-17 to survive a direct hit from Flak. The US should have built every Sherman tank to deflect a point blank shot from an 88."
And then there is the question of the multiple hundreds of thousands of preexisting structures.
(and then there is the question of whether 'preexisting' is truly a legitimate word, oh well, it gets used anyway)
It is neither practical nor even possible to retrofit all of or even a majority of them to survive direct hits from tornadoes.
Your feelings may be telling you that doing so should happen,NEEDS to happen, but your feelings are not guaranteed to always be realistic and/or rational.
