Best place to live and fly?

Bob Noel wrote:

One word: Tornado.

:-)

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At least one can hide from a tornado (or drive away from its path) and
the chances of it not hitting you are pretty good compared to a
hurricane.

Randy

("Randy Aldous" wrote)
At least one can hide from a tornado (or drive away from its path) and
the chances of it not hitting you are pretty good compared to a hurricane.


Downside: You can't go sit up on your roof for a week, after a tornado rips
through your town. No roof!


Montblack

"Montblack" writes:

("Randy Aldous" wrote)
At least one can hide from a tornado (or drive away from its path)
and the chances of it not hitting you are pretty good compared to a
hurricane.

Downside: You can't go sit up on your roof for a week, after a tornado
rips through your town. No roof!

It may take the roofs off half a dozen or so houses. If yours is
gone, you can generally go sit on your neighbor's roof.
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"David Dyer-Bennet" wrote in message
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"Montblack" writes:

Downside: You can't go sit up on your roof for a week, after a tornado
rips through your town. No roof!

It may take the roofs off half a dozen or so houses. If yours is
gone, you can generally go sit on your neighbor's roof.

....and drink beer.

Answer for tornado, poured concrete with steel and fiber
reinforced mix. Also spall-proof glass and steel shutters.
Some properly placed garden walls, planters and such would
deflect wind a debris from the windows. The roof would be
designed to withstand 150 mph and would NOT be a structural
part of the house. The concrete box would be designed to be
weather/water tight even if the roof blows off and would
serve primarily as a cover for the mechanical systems
located on the roof.
Could be designed to be fireproof and to withstand a direct
hit from a cat 5 tornado with only minor damage. Flood
would he handled by proper siting on high ground with a
nearby drainage basin.

Very few tornadoes destroy more than 50 sq. miles,
hurricanes can destroy 1,000s (Katrina was 90,000 sq.miles)
and hurricanes spawn tornadoes too.


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James H. Macklin
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"Randy Aldous" wrote in message
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| Bob Noel wrote:
|
| One word: Tornado.
|
| :-)
|
| ----------------------
|
| At least one can hide from a tornado (or drive away from
its path) and
| the chances of it not hitting you are pretty good compared
to a
| hurricane.
|
| Randy
|

"Randy Aldous" wrote in message
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Bob Noel wrote:

One word: Tornado.

:-)

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At least one can hide from a tornado (or drive away from its path) and
the chances of it not hitting you are pretty good compared to a
hurricane.

If you don't let all your buses drown, you can get away from a hurricane,
too.