UncleBuck
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name a place and i'll tell you what natural disaster can befall them.
Peace to everyone in Oklahoma. May God be with you all.
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Nutes and Nugs
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I dunno, your anus or brain?
UncleBuck
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both of which are located in portland oregon, which can suffer from floods or volcanoes. maybe even a massive ice storm or hail, but not likely.
wanna try again?
joe macclennan
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not true, the old mans house is made of shockcrete. It's concrete that gets sprayed on styrofoam forms. 4 inches concrete 10 inches of styrofoam 4inches of concrete. So twelve inch thick walls total. The second floor of his place has a concrete floor so downstairs is literally enclosed in concrete. God forbid we ever get hit directly the roof might go but the house will still be intact.
Not really a practical solution there nugs. Funny but not practical. The solution is better more stringent building codes. Or maybe they should move their house trailers in next to you?
Harrekin
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Youre too late to the party, hoe.
Antidisestablishmentarian
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I say ban global warming instead. For the children.
Total Head
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in a perfect world. the reality is that you're talking about an additional 50k in building costs for something that is extremely rare. most of the houses in oklahoma are built to withstand up to an f3 tornado, which is far more likely. there are also issues with the clay dirt that present problems for concrete basements(they cave in, sink, etc), not to mention the expense involved with digging it up. because of this issue there has been a push recently for people to build reinforced storm rooms rather than basements, but again, it's an expense issue and not realistic for most people to spend that kind of bread for something that is statistically unlikely to happen. there's a major difference between an f3 and f5.
it seems to me that they would be better off with more reinforced shelters available for community use to at least lessen the death, but i don't think it's realistic to increase the sale/building prices of homes 25-75% unless people are getting a MAJOR discount on home insurance for doing so.
something else to consider is that certain parts of tornado alley are also at a moderate-high risk for earthquakes. the two have almost polar opposite building requirements, so they generally build for what's most likely. i can tell you that building for a tornado will leave your house a pile of rubble if an earthquake hits, in which case we'd be having a similar discussion.
tl;dr: it's a shitty situation.
Dr Kynes
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yes actually it was hilarious.
the tornado rocked and rolled for 40 minutes, never straying past the fence that separated the trailer park from the neighborhoods surrounding it, and damaging nothing but mobile homes
how could this be anything but funny?
Dr Kynes
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or we could all move to "safe ground' in arizona, nevada utah and new mexico, abandoning the rest of the country as we all huddle together for fear of the grim wrath of Odin, or the implacable fury of Shiva, or the relentless indifference of Poseidon
expecting people to plan accordingly is NOT unreasonable, when my great uncle's house flooded out for the second time, he hired a crane, and all the kinfolk got together and we raised his house 20 feet on a new concrete basement/garage/boat dock/aquadrome
curiously, raising his house onto 20 foot foundation walls brought his house level to the road, eliminating the need for a twisting steep driveway, and gave him an awesome garage in the summer, and a sweet boat dock in winter, and completely eliminated the threat of flooding.
Harrekin
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Or just build your houses out of bricks, you cheap fuckers.
We don't even have natural disasters here and ALL of our houses are made from bricks and concrete.
Know what wouldve happened if that tornado hit my house?
It'd knock the roof tiles off...
In short; read about the three little pigs and stop building your houses from matchsticks.
Total Head
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Earlier I overheard a snippet of news while chowing down at a local eatery.
Apparently many casualties were double-counted. The current death toll has been revised down to 24.
It's still a tragedy, but that's 27 noses better than the original estimate I'd heard. cn
Apparently many casualties were double-counted. The current death toll has been revised down to 24.
It's still a tragedy, but that's 27 noses better than the original estimate I'd heard. cn
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Ordinarily, when I hear an initial casualty estimate from a sudden disaster, I mentally double it. This time I get to halve it. To me, that's welcome news and not very appropriate fro my usual flippancy. Jmo. cn
TheGreenMaester
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I believe Coburn opposed it. The man sticks to his guns, but I do believe he lives in DC and not in Oklahoma for the majority of the year. Either way, I don't want to give those welfare queens any money as they are already stealing my tax dollars. Not my problem they got hit with a disaster.
MyPetSkunk
Active Member
Oh, I think I get it. Since I live in a 2 story house, I should lol at this tornado.
Lol at the rubble of hundreds of inferior one story houses, lo fuckin l.
I hope you get the runny shits for a month.
