Text 1746, 70 rader
Skriven 2013-06-26 00:27:50 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Weather
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->  RH> That, as they say, is nuts.  I think if I lived in Tornado Alley
I'd 
be
->  RH> tempted to build a house underground and solve the problem that
way.
->  RH> That won't work in Florida, but those trailer homes turn into box 
kites
->  RH> when the winds hit.
-> 
-> I *do* live in tornado alley. And I *do* live in a mobile home. And I 
have
-> never, ever had a problem. After moving into this tin can I was pretty 
nervous
-> when I first heard the sirens going outside the 1st Tuesday of the month 
test.
-> I had always heard the urban legends about trailer parks being tornado 
magnets.
-> But, y'know what? They are just that - urban legends.

No, but if they do get hit it's worse than a regular house sometimes.  The 
really bad storms don't differentiate.

-> The people in Florida take their chances. But a hurricane with 150MPH 
winds
-> doesn't care if it's a mobile home, a palatial manse, or one of those 
swamp rat
-> things on stilts that's in the path. As with a divorce, someone is going 
to
-> lose a house.

Or at least a roof.  Straight line winds did that to a friend in Minnesota 
recently on a regular house.  
 
-> It's the same with the idjits and retards in Californica who build on 
steep
-> hillsides and then cry when they get wiped out after the hill decides to 
become
-> part of the valley. I class their intelligence with that of the spiders 
who
-> build their webs in a downspout. 

Looks like.  Mudslides are no respecters of price tags.  Wildfires either. 
The annual Cali fires always threaten or burn out some expensive house or 
other.
 
-> In March of 2006 my town got criss-crossed by a pair of F2 tornadoes. In 
2009
-> we got whammered again. Damage in my trailer park? Zippadee Doo Dah.

Missed ya missed ya, now it's got to kiss ya?  
 
-> Heck, where I was born and spent the first twelve years of my life, the 
sports
-> teams of the local high-school are named the "Tornadoes". And with good 
reason.
-> In 1950 a tornado there killed my neighbour's house and ripped out our 
back
-> fence. And didn't ruffle a shingle on the roof. It did, however, drive 
green
-> grass into the side of an oak tree, embedding it in the bark. Also a 1"
X 
8"
-> pine board that went completely through that same 3' plus diameter
trunk.
-> 
Tornadoes are weird.  It's not like a hurricane that wipes out everything.   
God must have decided to protect somebody you live near. 
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