Ken, as somebody who lives in a country with no natural disasters
(other than that caused by 90% of the population) I am relieved that
you are all OK, and personally can't imagine what living in a
tornado-swept country is like.
One thing that has always bothered me: Why on earth has tornado-
and hurricane-country USA never bothered to invent hurricane-proof
houses? You can't tell me it's not possible. It's easy to build an
aircraft that can stably *fly* 200 miles per hour (nay, 2000
miles per hour!) so why can't people build dwellings that
simply have to remain stationary (and not be destroyed)
by a 100 - 200 mph wind? Every year people go through the
agony and cost of repairing damage, when human ingenuity
and will-power could easily result in a design of house that
does not need to be repaired every year. So what if it costs
4 times as much? It will be much cheaper in the long run.
I don't understand the economics / people over there, so I
am just speculating.
regards,
Dawid
On 16 Apr 2012, at 12:56 PM, John Hermanson wrote:
> I'm glad everyone is okay! Must have been very scary.
>
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> On 4/14/2012 11:43 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> Update. Our house was right on the south edge of the damage path.
>> There are
>> houses flattened a block away.
>>
>> AG
>>
>> On Saturday, April 14, 2012, Ken Norton wrote:
>>
>>> There are a few of you that have correlated my location with the
>>> news. The
>>> hospital in question is just a couple blocks from our house. We
>>> lost one
>>> tree and major parts of others. Hopefully we have no holes in the
>>> roof. The
>>> hospital did get trashed pretty good. We rode this one out in the
>>> basement,
>>> but couldn't get into the storm shelter in time. The wind was
>>> blowing
>>> through the house.
>>>
>>> AG
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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