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[–] protist@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't build houses, nor do I live in Tornado Alley lol

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I think that was an empirical "you", not you specifically..

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.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] Rouxibeau@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It doesn't need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it's no longer structually sound.

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

They do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Easy, can your brick house handle a 400 kph car flying into, follow by chunks of trees, houses, ice ball the size of grapfruit.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] XEAL@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Context of the image? Date? Location?