Why don’t you build with cement and big heavy bricks etc?
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Lol
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Haha. It’s a silly question i always had
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Is it easier? Cheaper?
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Probably cheaper. Tornados on average do not hit very often, so building houses to be safe from them isn’t justified because of the cost. But I bet brick walls have their hazards in a tornado too. They might fall over and land on somebody.
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I see a lot of brick homes in the North East, Midwest and South of America.
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Tornadoes will destroy even cement and brick houses. There’s been lots of pictures posted online of things like pencils that get rammed through brick and block during a tornado.
A lot of people have special shelters built.
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We have cyclones out here…and bricks aren’t so cool because once one goes the wall tends to follow and high winds can make them toast. Nothing like nature to show up your engineering!
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Thank you guys, @anon4362788 , and @rogueone .
You made me understand better the situation.
I have another question.
Is it true that most houses dont have shutters?
In movies and documentaries i have noticed only curtains that keep the place private, but not safe
We don’t have shutters over here. I am not sure about up north where you get more tropical cyclones but you build to your climate.
And you’re not afraid of burglars?
Here in Greece we all have shutters,
which, of course, it’s easy for a thief
to break in. But it’s another obstacle between
outer world and our home
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It’s just not a thing and we grew out of an environment where our first settlers were criminals from England. Stole a loaf of bread and you got deported which isn’t cool but reported.
Still. We lock our doors and such…but windows have security screens if your interested and have the cash and most have them. It’s just what you do in our neck of the world.
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In Belgium we don’t have shutters either. We just lock the doors and have double glazing. It’s pretty safe.
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In South Africa crime is a problem so we have security complexes, guards and burglar bars. But my neighbourhood is a relatively safe one in comparison to others
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Brick and stone vs wood? Follow the money. Bottom line is cost. Brick costs many times as much as wood construction. If I was in the market for a house I would look for a brick or stone house first, but it can depend on the area. In the city where I live, the row homes are all made of brick. Further out from the city you start seeing frame houses, inversely for huge amounts of money.
I live in tornado alley (US) and have a house with vinyl siding. It’s better than a mobile home!
We also don’t have shutters or screens, just locks on the windows.
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My house is on a lake with a nice view and lots of windows. Supposedly they are hurricane proof. I don’t really want to find out myself. We have had a few hurricanes and no damage yet. We lost power for a week last year with Ida. The back wall in the living room and master bedroom are all windows n
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When I lived in a high tornado zone, most people had cheaply built pre-fabricated homes because homes keep getting destroyed and it’s easier to replace a cheap home.
And yeah, up north we mostly don’t have shutters, or else we have decorative shutters that are just nailed to the side of the windows for looks. If I had to guess, I would guess that it’s because we have screens in all our windows, so it wouldn’t be possible to just reach out and close a shutter. Taking out a screen is a whole bunch of extra steps.
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