Modern American Weather

  On 4/29/2011 at 11:30 AM, chassis said:

Why are american houses made from timber if they're prone to tornadoes. I dont think theres any urban irish houses made from timber.

Err, unless you live in a massive apt. building, it doesn't really matter what your house is made of. A tornado can still throw it into the next county.

mad #s of trees falling down in my land

retard people wandering the upper villa. had to shout at the top of my lungs to get them downstairs. i hate people who don't take the weather cersious. because when i am the one who is mad they think that they are right.

tonight was a revelation when the storm fucked everything up hardcore. now everyone knows that when i am mad i am the one who is right.

Apparently a massive fucking tornado annihilated the town of Joplin a few hours away from here (Kansas City). Like 3/4 of the town is just debris.

it was another mile-wide tornado

You've really gotta change the building code for houses in tornado alley.

Not only does the timber framing splinter, but it then gets picked up and thrown around like missiles, impaling anything and everything around it.

LOL building code. Same reason why people build wooden houses on stilts on the beach here: no one seems to care or think that anything will happen to them. If I lived in tornado alley I'd have a low concrete house with a nice storm cellar with very strong and secure doors.

+100

exactly concrete with double glazed small windows. Or at least steel framed normal houses. I'm sure we'd be happy to sell your country some steel. ;-]

i just wouldn't live in tornado alley.

then you'd miss all the best parties

if an asteroid hit the same towns every year, I wouldnt live there. if a sea monster crawled out of the ocean and terrorized the same areas every year, I wouldn't live there. if the rapture happened every year in the same area, I wouldn't live there. and if tornados hit the same area every year, well I wouldn't fucking live there either.

  On 5/24/2011 at 5:08 PM, patternoverlap said:

LOL building code. Same reason why people build wooden houses on stilts on the beach here: no one seems to care or think that anything will happen to them. If I lived in tornado alley I'd have a low concrete house with a nice storm cellar with very strong and secure doors.

A friend of mine lives in an in-ground home that I'm pretty sure is safe in a tornado- the back wall is exposed but the rest of the house is built into a hill. Pretty sweet, but they have really bad mold problems. I, on the other hand, live in a shitty suburb miles away from anything... but the tornado in my neighborhood a few years back spared my side of the street, so all is well.

  On 5/24/2011 at 6:40 AM, Sprigg said:

Apparently a massive fucking tornado annihilated the town of Joplin a few hours away from here (Kansas City). Like 3/4 of the town is just debris.

TOTO, WHERE ARE WE?

RE: Joplin. i was watching the tuesday NBC news bulletin, and they were showing debris and pointing out that the brick and concrete structures had survived. Sure the windows had blown in but that's a design issue.

Made me feel warm inside.

absolute madness

you don't see any images really in this but you hear the whole thing, it's unbelievable. it's like hearing people who believe they may be dead any minute at around 2 minutes/ and the aftermath soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds

B...But...but global warming is a myth!

because everything that happens now is because of global warming though, amirite?

It snowed in Nevada last year, take that and put it in your pipe and smoke it you fearmongering climate change crackpot. :smug:

god fuicking beautiful buttfuck jesus i love those totino things

  On 5/26/2011 at 6:42 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

god fuicking beautiful buttfuck jesus i love those totino things

they cause tornados when deposited in the toilet

yearly average precipitation : 38 inches

June 2011 : 42 inches

we beat the June record here as well

just popped in to say that I really love the thread title... has a great ring to it

modern american weather

love it

this entire thread is like one huge david lynch movie

*dont ask

i was at the shore this weekend and was out in the sun for 1.5 hours with no protection and I am crispy as fuck. my shins and feet are burned to all hell. the sun seemed so much stronger than years past.

  On 6/24/2011 at 5:12 AM, Franklin said:

just popped in to say that I really love the thread title... has a great ring to it

 

modern american weather

 

love it