Oklahoma tornado

[Jovial_Monk]

Actually, most of what Nef is saying in this post is true, but too generalized.

Get off the bloody suck-hole fence Annie! Most of what Nappy said was crap, and especially the 'trailer' comment, and the totally ignorant attack on building standards. She has no idea, and I reckon you share that idea.

The place was knocked out by Nature, people died, property destroyed, lives ruined, a local economy lost....and all you can come up with is support for a retard you have previously ridiculed, and thrown shit upon. Your quest to be 'Everyman' is Quixotic.

Go fuck yourself Aussie. Annie and Neferti don't deserve the crap they get from you.

You don’t get irony, do you?

[Jovial_Monk]

It is clear Naffy the Drunk set out to be insulting with her remarks about trailer parks. A quick look at the endless footage would have shown the Neferti that those were solid houses.

As if we don’t have caravan parks here with permanent residents!

[Rorschach]

If I lived in a tornado zone my house would be low profile (probably a dome). Made of reinforced concrete mostly underground and anchored into the earth.

Little wooden boxes and brick shells are 3 little pig stuff in that environment

[Outlaw Yogi]

If I lived in a tornado zone my house would be low profile (probably a dome). Made of reinforced concrete mostly underground and anchored into the earth.

Little wooden boxes and brick shells are 3 little pig stuff in that environment

For years now I've been saying "I can't understand why those in tornado alley living in weatherboard houses just rebuild the same flimsy weatherboard houses once knocked down or blown away ... if I lived in tornado alley, I'd live in a cement dome"

I remember a mini tornado in Bundy's Scotland St in late 1998. Recently Bagara (on the coast 14 km away) has been copping them. Today I saw the front of a newspaper suggesting a tornado hit Sydney. If so, that seems bizzare. I grew up in and near Sydney and never heard of such things.

Has Tim Flannery blamed it on Climate Change yet?

As for global warming induced factors per se, I won't be surprised to see cyclones down as far as Coffs Harbour in coming decades, but I didn't expect tornados in Sydney.

[Black Orchid]

[Neferti]

Actually, most of what Nef is saying in this post is true, but too generalized.

Get off the bloody suck-hole fence Annie! Most of what Nappy said was crap, and especially the 'trailer' comment, and the totally ignorant attack on building standards. She has no idea, and I reckon you share that idea.

The place was knocked out by Nature, people died, property destroyed, lives ruined, a local economy lost....and all you can come up with is support for a retard you have previously ridiculed, and thrown shit upon. Your quest to be 'Everyman' is Quixotic.

How dare you speak to me that way, Aussie. I'm tired of your nasty attitude.

When I was a teenager I lived in Nebraska, two states north of Oklahoma. Things are more modernized there these days, but folks live very much the same now as then in the midwest. I have family members living in Ohio, as well.

I'm an American and I know the country and you don't.

Thanks, Annie. Don't take any crap from Aussie or Monk.

Yes, Annie, I was probably generalising a bit too much, however, I have many email friends in the US (various States incl Wichita, KS) and we have been corresponding since about 1996. Lots of stuff discussed, including housing. Much of my "knowledge" about Life in the USA is from my epals but I also "research" stuff as well as we were exchanging knowledge and unlike some, I do NOT talk BS.

American housing in some areas is so-called "pre-fab" housing, with the look-alike "weatherboard" that the Americans call "siding". It isn't "weatherboard" as we know it here in Australia. Housing built in Twister Valley is mostly "cheap wooden base" with "siding" and NO basement like larger cities have.

It is quite sad that a TWISTER went through the area in Oklahoma and lives were lost

.... but it is almost an annual event that there is a DISASTER of some sort in the USA.

One tunes out .... IF Aussie and Monk are having a whinge I would like to ask ONE QUESTION of both of them

How much money have your donated via Red Cross for this Oklahoma disaster?

If the answer is NIL ........ STFU

[Neferti]

[annielaurie]

Thanks, Annie. Don't take any crap from Aussie or Monk.

Yes, Annie, I was probably generalising a bit too much, however, I have many email friends in the US (various States incl Wichita, KS) and we have been corresponding since about 1996. Lots of stuff discussed, including housing. Much of my "knowledge" about Life in the USA is from my epals but I also "research" stuff as well as we were exchanging knowledge and unlike some, I do NOT talk BS.

American housing in some areas is so-called "pre-fab" housing, with the look-alike "weatherboard" that the Americans call "siding". It isn't "weatherboard" as we know it here in Australia. Housing built in Twister Valley is mostly "cheap wooden base" with "siding" and NO basement like larger cities have.

It is quite sad that a TWISTER went through the area in Oklahoma and lives were lost

.... but it is almost an annual event that there is a DISASTER of some sort in the USA.

One tunes out .... IF Aussie and Monk are having a whinge I would like to ask ONE QUESTION of both of them

How much money have your donated via Red Cross for this Oklahoma disaster?

If the answer is NIL ........ STFU

Hi Nef, you're welcome. Again, what you've written is true. I see now that you have American friends, and you've got an understanding of the way things are here.

[Aussie]

So Nappy and annie...which building code do your suggest will with stand 320kph winds?

[Jovial_Monk]

I wonder what sort of houses got (re)built after the last cyclone that hit the Qld coast?

In tornado ally people are buying and having installed tornado bunkers, schools are being fitted with safe rooms—tragically, the two schools hit did not yet have these safe rooms.

When you look at the area/population that makes up tornado alley your chance of being hit is not all that high—cheaper to live in a normal house but have a tornado bunker nearby—they make nice wine cellars I imagine.