• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Try rebuilding a brick wall after a tornado, you’re going to spend so much more money and you won’t have a house for a lot longer

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      That’s the other side of the confusion. You build houses out of sticks and paper, and live in somewhere called Tornado Alley…

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I live in an area prone to tornadoes. Not as tornado prone as the midwest, but we’ve seen tornadoes in this area.

        A particularly notable one touched down in a town not far from here, in the business district. It tore down multiple steel framed cinder block buildings including a Lowe’s Home Improvement Center and a Tractor Supply Company.

        A big bad wolf might not be able to blow a brick house down, but an EF3 tornado certainly can.

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          1 year ago

          I think that was an empirical “you”, not you specifically…

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      1 year ago

      I’d like to see a tornado tearing up a brick house as easily as a wood and drywall house.