If interested, you can always buy an above-ground shelter. This one is meant to be in a garage, but they sell them for outside too, just make sure a licensed contractor installs it in concrete with rebar. I’ve seen designs like this with bunk beds and TV installed. Price range varies depending on how many people you have, but it can’t be anymore expensive than digging out a basement. It can also be used as a panic room.
Make sure to do a flip if you ever get sucked up by a twister, I need that footage next time I storm chase.
Seething because mutts can't build anything stronger than a garden shed.
Those are convenient & all, but they're still too small & exposed. But from what I've seen, an F4/5 long-track would simply take it with the whole trailer or building. The only thing left are bare bank vaults.
Just from the drone footage/photos of the aftermath, one can see quite a few brick buildings that were essentially annihilated and quite a few bricks laying around, I don't know if those people are retarded or they don't understand the EF scale or something, but with an F5 pretty much anything above ground is not good enough, and a typical basement will often fail in that situation too. If the rest of the house goes, and it will in an F5 - you're going with it unless that basement is built like a bunker or you have a specialized reinforced area purpose-built.
Yes, it’s a sad fact, but no matter what you do an E4-E5 will obliterate everything in its path and the only thing that will save you is pure luck.
That is 100% NORMAL for a steel truss roof building such as a warehouse. The roof trusses fail and the building folds inwards. It's simply how that type of building collapses.
That's exactly what happened here. It took 5 years for them to just to rebuild the courthouse, a small & square municipal building. But still nothing exists where downtown & the entire neighborhood before it stood, about 3-4 blocks long.
Want to know something fucked up? As soon as FEMA arrived here, they tried to stop local churches collecting private donations, even the ones which had been completely or partially destroyed. I stopped at one of the water & ration distribution points to donate bottled water, and tried to lay a hundo on the deacon before I left.
And just when I had hope you weren't a total loss. Good job, fucking cockgobbler; God remembers shit like that.
Had a EF4 get within 1000' of me a 4 years ago. First thing it hit was 500 acres of old growth hardwood forest. Only thing still standing were the large oaks and they were stripped of branches up to 2-3' in diameter. Whole forest is dead with debris 10' deep on the forest floor. Everyone's house is rebuilt and it narrowly missed several small towns, but that forest is fucked for 20-30 years because no one around here had the equipment to mechanically log it. A hand faller would have been splatted sooner or later in that mess.
A weakened brick building can be partially damaged (up to 66%) by and EF2 and leveled by an EF3. Add one number for brick buildings in good condition. Add another number if the walls were over 18" thick.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Any protection from wind and debris is better than nothing.
Isn't some of that the rubble from the 1906 quake?
Maybe but some of it is just plain old garbage. Part of the SF-Oakland Bay bridge is on landfill as is a good part of West Oakland. Every structure that was build on landfill suffered catastrophic damage since it amplifies the earthquake vibrations, bedrock does not.
Orgs like the Salvation Army are useless, they're vultures.
