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Geny
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted February 02, 2011 08:15 PM |
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I'm a horrible, horrible person, floods and hurricanes strike the lands of the South and all I can think of is: "Yay, kookie's here!".
But seriously, good luck, and hold on in there.
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Elodin
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posted February 02, 2011 10:08 PM |
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Quote: @Bak:
I accepted the risk when I posted it, but I really couldn't contain myself. I had to follow-up with what ole' Elodin was really thinking.
I posted what I was really thinking. But it is a good idea to be prepared for looters. If the cyclone does a lot of damage it could take quite some time to have utilities/services restored and in such events looters always come out to steal what they can. A shotgun remains the single best home defense system.
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Corribus
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The Abyss Staring Back at You
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posted February 03, 2011 03:59 PM |
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Quote: I'm just wondering, why a lot of people in America, even in the danger zones, builds houses with wood. In a catastrophic event, it's like houses made of paper. Goes poof.
Why not solid buildings in a tornado-and-quake endangered zone? What, too expensive or something?
Most buildings in earthquake prone areas are reinforced, per ordinance. (At least, large buildings).
Hurricanes are a bigger threat to windows and from flooding than actually causing buildings to collapse from wind. That's a bigger issue in tornado-prone areas.
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bLiZzArdbOY
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posted February 03, 2011 05:20 PM |
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Smartly-constructed wood buildings fare pretty decently with earthquakes and are quick and fairly easy to repair (a huge crack in a wall of stone, not so much). You don't really want strong buildings per se, unless it's extremely strong, like steel; you want buildings that are flexible in order to absorb the severe vibrations. That's why you see brick buildings on the east coast and in the midland but not by the Ring of Fire; brick is strong and brittle and is basically worthless for standing up against an earthquake. The real risk is in the rare event that an earthquake would strike in a region that doesn't normally get earthquakes (an earthquake can strike anywhere if a plate folds in on itself somewhere). A small earthquake in New York or London would cause more damage than an earthquake that is twice as strong in Los Angeles or Tokyo. There's a section of New York that makes engineers **** their pants because it's built on landfill. If a strong enough earthquake ever hit there, things might not end well.
Here's some more on wood buildings: http://www.atcouncil.org/pdfs/bp3a.pdf
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Shyranis
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posted February 03, 2011 08:41 PM |
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Edited by Shyranis at 20:43, 03 Feb 2011.
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Yasi touched down yesterday. I hope everybody is okay.
Ancient Japanese buildings are well known for being Earthquake proof, having stood for centuries despite being in an earthquake heavy area, too bad most of them were burned away by bombing runs against civilian areas. (Look up any Japanese castle or temple and you'll see it was bombed and then rebuilt years after the war)
Quote: During the Kamakura period (1185–1333) and Muromachi period (1336–1573), Japanese architecture made technological advances that somewhat diverged from and Chinese counterparts.(Daibutsu-Style and Zen-Style)[4][5][6] In response to native requirements such as earthquake resistance and shelter against heavy rainfall and the summer heat and sun, the master carpenters of this time responded with a unique type of architecture.
Quote: After World War II, the majority of buildings ceased to be built of wood (which is easily flammable in the case of earthquakes and bombing raids), and instead were internally constructed of steel. (Low-rise residential structures, however, are still constructed primarily of wood.)
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