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Why are the houses in America so poor in structure?
I'm always seeing images of houses flattened by hurricanes and tornadoes (in the states that are prone to tornadoes & hurricanes). Unlike Britain where the houses are still standing through these storms.
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- simplicitusLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
LOL - Auroch is right. You see these images in the news because they are unusual, very unusual. And these tornadoes and hurricanes are much more severe than anything you normally get in the U.K.
The worst UK storm in 5 years only has winds up to 95 mph and most of the country gets winds well under 90 mph:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/brita...
Hurricane Sandy had winds of 115 mph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy
and the big Oklahoma tornado had winds of 210 mph.
The difference between 95 and 115 may seem small, but wind energy goes as the cube of velocity, so a 115 mph wind has more than 75% more power than a 95 mph wind and more than twice the power of a 90 mph wind. And as for a 210 mph wind, ...
- Anonymous8 years ago
Actually houses in the US are really good.... you just misjudge just how horrible these big tornadoes are. These sorts of storms don't happen anywhere else than in the US - in the midwest - in "Tornado Alley". They're deadly dangerous storms.
