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Severe WX April 1-2 (overnight) Severe Weather Event

tornado examiner said:
Why does the United States. The country with the most of the most common natural disaster.
Have such crappy construction standards across the board?

Oh right…
Money.
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My response probably belongs in the EF critique thread, BUT I don't see any reason we can't begin rating tornadoes based on all available radar/observeration data in real time and just have the EF scale be a secondary relic for insurance companies and structural engineers to use.
 
tornado examiner said:
Why does the United States. The country with the most of the most common natural disaster.
Have such crappy construction standards across the board?

Oh right…
Money.
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Can you define or provide any actual insight to these “crappy construction standards”, or is your post an unintentional admission that you know next to nothing about housing and home construction?
 
TH2002 said:
Can you define or provide any actual insight to these “crappy construction standards”, or is your post an unintentional admission that you know next to nothing about housing and home construction?
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Uhm. What??? It’s common knowledge that modern American construction standards in the face of severe weather have been slacking greatly in most tornado prone area’s. This isn’t even a hot take. And a root cause of that is construction companies constantly cutting corners to save money.

Idk why I need to back that up when everyone knows it.
 
tornado examiner said:
Uhm. What??? It’s common knowledge that modern American construction standards in the face of severe weather have been slacking greatly in most tornado prone area’s. This isn’t even a hot take. And a root cause of that is construction companies constantly cutting corners to save money.

Idk why I need to back that up when everyone knows it.
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No one is denying that poor construction quality exists in many parts of the US.

Still, there’s SO much more that goes into building homes than just “all homes in the US should be concrete domes because they fare better in tornadoes”.

Money is just one of the many factors homebuilders need to take into consideration:
Thermal performance?
Local geography?
Weather and climate?
The availability of the required materials?
If specialized skills are required from the builders themselves?

And many, many others…
 
tornado examiner said:
Uhm. What??? It’s common knowledge that modern American construction standards in the face of severe weather have been slacking greatly in most tornado prone area’s. This isn’t even a hot take. And a root cause of that is construction companies constantly cutting corners to save money.

Idk why I need to back that up when everyone knows it.
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Weren’t you the same person advocating for dome homes across all of America?

You realize 99.9999% of homes will never be impacted by a tornado right?
 
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