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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsListen folks these Tornadoes are serious
A maximum security prison was hit in Alabama.
They are going to be worse by 4.00pm - watch out Louisville and Nashville, Southern Indiana.
Looks like they will miss the big cities.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)We are tied together is so many ways.
Thank you for caring, malaise!
monmouth
(21,078 posts)malaise
(269,114 posts)Word is that Harrisburg may be hit again today
pinto
(106,886 posts)Both the sheer number of tornado reports and the expanse of the line of storms.
Newsjock
(11,733 posts)aquart
(69,014 posts)Seems to me that there is a potential American industry in developing housing that outwits our new weather norms.
I want heavy-money competitions in our architectural and engineering schools.
Hey, billionaire job-creators, GET BUSY.
saras
(6,670 posts)Stick houses never were meant to handle wind. They were easy to build when we had an excess of wood, now they're just habit.
Earth, concrete, block, brick, stone, metal, all make windproof houses. Half-buried passive solar houses are ideal, as they are buried sideways instead of down, so they're no more susceptible to flooding than any other house.
HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)along about dark. This is not good news.
NC has the dubious distinction of having the most night-time tornadoes in the US.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)malaise
(269,114 posts)Unbelievable