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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 3, 2012 at 11:46 am
Where's the fucking kudos button..goddamnit!
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 3, 2012 at 1:47 pm
It blew off.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 3, 2012 at 10:53 pm
(March 3, 2012 at 7:39 am)Zen Badger Wrote: (March 2, 2012 at 8:45 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Things are good here in South Huntsville. Some of the people a little north of me that got hit last April got zapped again though. One poor family had been in their rebuilt house less than a month and now it's totaled again.
I've always been a bit puzzled by this, why don't they build tornado proof houses?
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 3, 2012 at 11:13 pm
I'd pay more for that than I'd pay for the piles of sticks we currently build. Hell, that almost looks like a human dwelling, instead of a filing cabinet.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 4, 2012 at 12:11 am
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(March 3, 2012 at 10:53 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: (March 3, 2012 at 7:39 am)Zen Badger Wrote: (March 2, 2012 at 8:45 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Things are good here in South Huntsville. Some of the people a little north of me that got hit last April got zapped again though. One poor family had been in their rebuilt house less than a month and now it's totaled again.
I've always been a bit puzzled by this, why don't they build tornado proof houses?
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Plus not everyone likes monolithic domes.
What do you mean? That looks like an awesome home. Some of the Domes I have seen are not expensive either. No idea how much that one is however.
If it happens to be tornado proof, it is a lot better than all the sticks and brick homes tossed like toys everywhere by the tornadoes.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 4, 2012 at 12:32 am
Mom said a tornado ripped through east Charlotte and flipped a car over (no idea what else it did). I didn't watch the weather channel or pay attention - nothing up in Concord except some howling wind.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 4, 2012 at 12:39 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2012 at 12:41 am by popeyespappy.)
(March 4, 2012 at 12:11 am)Pendragon Wrote: (March 3, 2012 at 10:53 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: (March 3, 2012 at 7:39 am)Zen Badger Wrote: (March 2, 2012 at 8:45 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Things are good here in South Huntsville. Some of the people a little north of me that got hit last April got zapped again though. One poor family had been in their rebuilt house less than a month and now it's totaled again.
I've always been a bit puzzled by this, why don't they build tornado proof houses?
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Plus not everyone likes monolithic domes.
What do you mean? That looks like an awesome home. Some of the Domes I have seen are not expensive either. No idea how much that one is however.
If it happens to be tornado proof, it is a lot better than all the sticks and brick homes tossed like toys everywhere by the tornadoes.
Don't get me wrong. I love monolithic domes, but not everybody holds them in the same regard as we do. Relatively cheap to build, energy efficient and practically tornado proof, what’s not to like?
The money thing is in reference to tornado proofing a conventional stick built structure.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 4, 2012 at 12:52 am
Actually I keep expecting Bilbo Baggins to walk out of that dome house. It's got to feel safer than the ones we use as homes. I live in a tower block, albeit not particulary a tall one at twelve stories; when I was a little toddling Stimbo I lived in a taller block on the same estate, this time almost at the top, on the fifteenth floor. During even lightly windy days - and the estate acts as a wind funnel in the way it's laid out - the building would sway about like a Scotsman on a Saturday night. And we don't even get the sort of winds like you get over the water. My sympathies go out to everyone affected and I hope the casualty count is as low as possible - zero, for preference.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 4, 2012 at 12:53 am
The little town mom grew up in southeast Tennessee got hammered hard. One of my cousins got caught out in the open and told my aunt he spent the longest 15 minutes of his life laying in a ditch while all this was going on.
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RE: Tornado Alley Check-In
March 4, 2012 at 12:55 am
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Completely terrifying and completely beautiful aren't they?
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