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Severe Threat May 15-16, 2025

buckeye05 said:
Yes good eye. Lots of empty cells there, which means unreinforced CMU. While I am very confident this was a violent tornado, people should brace themselves for an EF3 rating.

Why is it so hard to find a single home with a proper poured slab and bolts foundation in Kentucky? It’s like Mayfield all over again.
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I know man, as a Kentuckian, I can tell you, those are few and far between. The subdivisions aren’t going to have those because they mainly consist of older homes. In the rural counties, the larger homes are off to themselves so a violent tornado hitting those is like a needle in a haystack.

You would start seeing better construction closer to the bigger cities, where population growth has exploded and led to newer developments. So Lexington, Louisville, Covington (Cincy metro). Extremely nice homes in those areas.
 
slenker said:
Calling an entire group of damage surveyors and engineers idiots who spent much of their time studying, doing math, getting taught from experts (AKA the people who were from Fujita’s era of surveying) is pretty distasteful, especially when considering the fact that surveying is heavily dependent on the office doing it and differs vastly dependent on that factor alone. Regardless on whether or not you agree with their ratings, they have reasons for doing things the way they do. They are more qualified than many of us to assign tornado ratings based on the current scale. It’s inherently subjective and will continue to be for a long time.
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I have studying tornado damage for 23 years but yet I don't know nothing according to you. There are people on this forum who are better than the experts at rating tornadoes.
 
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