Why are there not more people with underground houses? You would think that instead of just making a shelter they would just put the whole living space underground. Then not only that, but since it is in the mid-west they would then have more farmland.
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A 1,500 square foot dwelling built underground, while difficult (not impossible) for a tornado to damage directly, would be very expensive to build plus you'd have problems with moisture buildup. Plus an underground house would still be susceptible to objects falling on them from a tornado.
shareYeah right. You have to think most people don't have underground shelters or basements because we're also a major flood zone too. It just isn't financially feasible
shareI grew up in Nebraska and the majority of people had underground basements or crawl spaces. Tornadoes are incredibly unpredictable.
sharelol you make it sound like we experience tornadoes on a daily basis. Ignorance of those living on the coasts....
Here I'll try your logic: EVERYONE living on a coast should live in solid concrete homes because of hurricanes.
Yes, I've lived in Kansas for 30 years and have never even seen a tornado.
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Here I'll try your logic: EVERYONE living on a coast should live in solid concrete homes because of hurricanes.
My gf is from oklahoma and people are just poor, or they don't think it will happened to them.
But the fact that Moore Oklahoma schools don't have it, that is a crime of negligence.
In many areas the soil is not strong enough to allow a basement to be built. This is especially prevalent in Oklahoma. However, the South, also known as Dixie Alley, has more violent tornadoes and more tornado deaths than traditional Tornado Alley.
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To be fair having a house built entirely underground might cost a lot at first, but you would save on heating costs in the winter. On the slip side, most people don't like the idea of living completely underground where no sunlight filters in.
sharei dont understand why people move their in the first place then again LA is also built on EQ ground just waiting for "the big one" to happen
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earthquakes (WA state: overshadowed by a dormant volcano and in the tsunami area.)
Hawaii: Volcanoes, tsunamis and typhoons
East Coast and Gulf coast: Hurricanes
Mississippi River states: Devastating floods
Northern states: Major blizzards and Ice storms
BTW in Oklahoma, the water table in many areas is too high to build underground structures that are bigger than a small shelter (in some areas even in the ground pools are a no go). Shelters are expensive (somewhere in the range of $4000, an expense many families cannot afford). And what about people who live in rental houses--not their call to build a shelter. Apartment dwellers have no way to build a shelter.
I have lived in OKC for 10 years with one rotating wall cloud passing over my house once. No tornados even close. I was born and raised in LA--I have lost count of the earthquakes, fires, flash floods that occured before I moved away. Places that should be declared uninhabitable: Malibu and the Outer Banks of NC.
Upshot, anywhere you live in the US Mother Nature can reach you and bite you in the a--.
When the breadbasket of the country was first settled, we didn't really have the accessible/affordable technology for that.
I'd be willing to bet that in the future, we will be more underground dwellings in that area. As a matter of fact, those types of homes are starting to become trendy.
Just look online and you'll find some spectacular underground home that look (on the inside) like million-dollar mansions.
I live in Texas in one of the Big Citys and we get tornado watches and severe thunderstorm warnings a lot in the spring. I have had a rotating wall cloud pass right over my house and have had to take shelter in the closet a few times. But I have never experience a tornado and my husband refuse to have a shelter install on our property. Thinks its a waste of money.
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