well houses in my state in mexico are made to survive, multiple reinforced conrete rock mixture with 1 inch metal tubes supporting the structure. these house won't come down easy, sure the windows will break, blast away and probably the doors but everything else will be fine
superpeluso1 Shit, my poor childhood ass made Barbie houses out of paper and cardboard that could hold up better than those generic cookie cutter slapped together houses. And I made my Barbie houses out of lots of glue and construction paper, and popsicle sticks which at least are made of real wood lol.
question everything, i was raised to believe that you have to open windows to relieve pressure on your house to keep it from blowing apart. but that is 100% false keep doors and windows closed because if u open them the air flows thru the house and blows the walls and roof off destroying your house quicker then if u keep them shut!!!
I just relearned this too.. man all the years running around opening windows. I looked it up a couple weeks ago was very surprised at the answer after being told that my whole life
Now...if the home that collapsed had been positioned to collide with the "better constructed" home, would the better built home survive both the high winds and the collision from all that weight? My point may seem silly but homes are in subdivisions and if one home comes apart the pieces are likely to collide with homes in the debree path.
Droid Good. They can find jobs building concrete houses then. Just like coal miners and buggy builders. I'm sure the telegraph guys are out of jobs too.
JR, you can’t beat concrete vs wood. This is why there’s so much destruction after a storm because of the mindset that wood is stronger than reinforced concrete. When a storm blows through a suburb the homes are all leveled. When the storm blows through a city the buildings still stand after a storm.
1:19 No wonder everybody thinks Americans are uneducated, if they let people like her talk on television. What is not to understand about a wooden building that gets torn apart by strong winds?
Base housing on Andersen AFB was poured concrete including a poured concrete roof. Made it though 2 typhoons with zero damage. They can now pour concrete houses using 3D printing.
Shh.... not too loud, you'll offend people's sense of pride and tradition. If you start building concrete homes, you'll take jobs away from handymen and contractors who only work with lumber. People's ancestors died in wars to preserve this distinctly American tradition. There is literally no way these same people could also figure out how to build with ICF reinforced 3d printed anything. -_- sorry for the sarcasm. This is literally the argument most people throw back at me when I ask why we can't follow the example of Guam in these stormy parts of the country that are devastated year after year after year.
I dont know why tornado prone areas have houses still made of wood? Why not concrete houses with metal reinforcement? I live in a tropical island with constant typhoons every year and my house is made of concrete, even the roof over head. It made me feel safe for 20 years.
They also fail to realize wind is not the only enemy its what the wind carries. Once windows of a home are broken the window goes inside and no matter what the house is made of once those wind speeds are in there its over.
bighands69 True that although concrete can collapse it would take more than 100 mph winds of do it if the structure was properly constructed. I don't live in the USA where houses are made mainly from wood. Where I stay its mostly concrete and the only real damage than can occur would be the roof and windows. About regulation, I wouldn't care what people made their houses of. If it works for them fine, no problem.
I'm sure both homes were made of wood, an excellent building material, but it needs to be reinforced as was the house that was not destroyed. The 100 mile an hour wind is a low category tornado/hurricane. I believe this is the information that they are trying to convey.
Wait... freese The test was in a Weather Channel special, the winds were only 120 miles an hour, and both houses were made to code, with one of the houses rigged to have its door to swing open to show the damage it can do
The video raises more questions than answers. In the home that was destroyed, it appears that there are no anchor bolts, ties and hold downs that would be required in a standard residence. This is why the home "slides" off the subfloor - one could assume the other has some type of anchoring system. I also question the way the siding is ripped off the demo home, yet stays intact on the "fortified" home. How is this accomplished - 'IF' all things are equal.
Makes me wonder how poorly some homes in the US are constructed, by me in England we had 98 mph winds in feburary of this year, all that happened was our bins flew down the road.
It should be required by code to have a small closet like tornado proof storm shelter in every house in tornado alley. The whole house does not be have to be tornado proof. It could be done afford-ably.
Reason why is because midwest homes are made to crap specifications and only cost slightly less than concrete block double strap well built homes. For example midwest homes are built to tolerate 90 mph winds. Many Florida homes after 2008 were built for 150 MPH winds.
Foundation reinforced concrete six feet to the ground, the inner structure is made of a yellow brick exterior granite stone ,it costs a lot of money, but at least I'm sure my house will not fly .Windows and doors have their steel scarfs which automatically drop in critical situations .
@@pattiannepascual it means 6 foot thick concrete foundations. He almost certainly also has steel bars running through the entire structure to tie it to the foundations. Fairly common construction methods in cyclone prone areas.
take an example to the netherlands. not that we need tornado proof houses, but our houses are built with concrete walls and floors and are finished with brick facades and double glass windows. im sure they would withstand a tornado. maybe just some roofs would fly off. and dont plant big trees near your house!
Just saying this now it's not going to just be the structural materials but the house has a lot of indented corners or just really weird aerodynamics that could also come into account
The buildings on mt Washington summit in New Hampshire can hold up against 200mph plus wind. And they were built in the 60s. So its not a lack of material or engineering not being advanced enough its all about the money
Better engineered products can bring the structural integrity of expensive concrete and steel down to an affordable price for the rest of the population though. Pretty sure that was the point. Therefore, it is a lack of material or engineering advancements. Checkmate.
@@Rexvideowow you can't engineer properly for cyclonic winds, because torque will pull the structure into two different directions. Upwards and clockwise. If you want a structure that can handle that kind of stuff, it's going to have to be extremely flexible. Concrete is not that flexible. Neither is brick. Do you live someplace that gets tornadoes, or do you think because you have knowledge in one field, you're knowledgeable about everything?
I have my own theory for a tornado proof house. Let me know if you think it will work? simple one ridge roofline house. 20 foot wide and X feet long. Whatever length you desire. Stairs on both ends of the house down to the basement. Dual sump pumps with backup generators/batteries. The basement has two layers of cement block. The outer layer supports the main house. The inner layer supports steel plate spanning the basement. Bolt it down with anchors in the concrete filled concrete block. All the bedrooms are in the basement with everything valuable in the basement. Everything above the steel plate is designed to break away and be replaceable. If you have concrete walls above the steel plate, like ICF, then it is more difficult to rebuild. Sleep safe knowing your family is safe. Insurance would not need to pay as much to rebuild the house. The one problem I worry about is negative pressure popping the steel plate off.
Where I live in Europe we got 100mph winds annually in the recent decades and nothing ever happened apart from some minor roof damage… just don’t build your homes from cardboard and wood…
My house makes me nervous. It has got to be so unsafe. I live in an "older" house. It was built in the 80's. So this is a little smaller ground area and then a little taller than most houses. Just think, this is a tall house made out of little pieces of wood. That's scary. And we only have a 4 foot block basement. Not very safe.
You all should stop worrying about what it cost to make a house with stand and EF4 or EF5 tornado what matters is saving lives like I said are you guys care about money and don’t care about saving lives you care about what it cost to make a house or a building to a standard tornado.. Now you guys should start making houses with stand tornadoes and hurricanes I mean there a circle houses out there
really? only 100mph winds were used to test the durability of a house? ef5 tornadoes can go over 200 can't they? try testing with THAT power before saying it can withstand tornadoes.
The news anchor indicated he noticed both houses eventually got the doors opened, yet that video shows only one door opened. And if the IBHS let it open, they are framing the viewer.-Ernie Moore Jr.
I hope you' know a tornado is a concentrated wall of wind and a hurricane is large spread of wind I don't care if it's a armored house a tornado is going to tear it apart
If there were some strategically placed steel beams and floor joists, and the wood was screwed together, instead of nailed, a structure might hold up a tad better. I know I have a harder time removing a screw than a nail, so it just seems to make sense. But the extra few seconds per screw(which could lead into hours, for an entire structure) would probably jack the price up, astronomically, in the end. Not to mention screws would cost more. I'm not a handy woman. I'm lucky to be able to paint a wall! But if I was able, I'd build my own house, and use metal and screws, to hold it together. But I'd also have a storm shelter, because I don't know for sure my logic is based on sound evidence.
You'd be looking at almost a 10:1 ratio for framing nails vs structural screws as far as time goes. Not to mention with structural screws you are looking at ~ 2.5-3k s crews for a 1,000 sq ft house (no skimping on shit anyway) with the 3 1/2 inch screws costing almost 70 cents per screw you are looking at around 2k for screws alone vs 50$ for 2.5k framing nails. I like the idea of structural screws (not decking screws) but the time and cost is... a bit out there.
@@mycosys When I wrote this, I lived in a hurricane zone. I had a pretty sturdy house, so I didn't worry too much about hurricanes. Now I've moved to big tornado country, and live in a match stick house. We plan to build a house soon. I still want a storm cellar though, no matter how well built the house is.
There is another way. I will tell you now. After you build your "normal" box house you then build a curved circular masonry wall around the outside of the house with space between the house and the wall, You can plant shrubs around the wall to visually break up the look. The wall will need to be 6 feet high if possible. You are trying to keep the wind from grabbing the corners of the structure. This can be tested also in a wind tunnel test. The wind must be similar to what a tornado would be. Remember my name. I do not have the money to protect my idea.
Don't buy a tornado-proof house. Or these ones. They're a fraud. Buy a house with a well-built storm shelter, and put all of your valuables in that shelter.
There are SO many things wrong in this video (incorrect EF rating, that stupid ass “we don’t know why they fall apart!” comment, etc) but let’s just focus on the fact that to simulate a tornado, they literally just had some heavy wind in a tunnel and called it a day. I don’t know if this is breaking news, but tornadoes ROTATE. It is the very definition; a column of violently rotating wind. And debris - you know, the *deadliest* part?
Build tornado proof homes in tornado prone areas... Build flood proof homes in floor areas. Build hurricane proof homes in hurricane areas. Trees dont grow fast enough.
If we only spent 2.5%-10% more to build better homes, we'd save 100% of the total cost and billions of $ lost money on replacing entire neighborhoods every year due to storms. I came across this video because I want to learn how to personally build a reliable home that will last for generations even if no storm hits it. It's just cheap insurance at this point. And $5000 is only 2.5% of the total value of a $200,000 home. 100% worth the investment.
Yikes. My mobile home withstood sustained winds of 75 mph without damage and that house just blew away...Something about that makes little sense. Maybe because they did not anchor the home in any way. Of course we were not IN the home at the time because we will not count on a mobile home for shelter just because it survived once or twice. I live in Florida and we evacuate to either a cbs home rated for a cat3 or if higher than that we would leave the area.
They need to build these homes like how they do down here in South Florida concrete block and steel they don't blow over they don't even get scratched as long as you got your windows sealed up you're perfectly fine you can withstand up to 200 mile an hour winds you'll get a little shaken up but there wouldn't be no severe damage to the house
Yeah but what happens when the wind picks up a car and slams it into your house at a hundred miles an hour..... the wind isn't clean it's full of debris your neighbors privacy fence is going to shoot holes right through that
You guys should start testing houses that can withstand an EF6 tornado they have been predicting that it will happen eventually not sure what year or what time. But you guys should start testing houses that can with stand EF6 tornadoes that’s basically Stronger winds than an ear five
Nothing will survive a EF6. It would be a killer tornado. A EF5 does Catastrophic damage to even the very best built structures made of reinforced steel and concrete. Tornados winds don't push they suck up everything high into the atmosphere.
“100 mph” So the house is made of cardboard? You’d have to have winds over 250 mph for it to do that to a house (F4 and above). There was an F4 in Northridge Ohio on Memorial Day and it didn’t do that. The worst that happened was homes got the roofs ripped off and maybe a downed wall.
even that plant hanging on the porch was tornado proof.
e.i mccool it was blowing at the one but not the other...thats hilarious
The lady said that she doesn't understand why homes fall apart???
I know why!!!
Because they are made of CARDBOARD AND WOODEN STICKS!!!!!!
Even concrete homes can fall apart under extreme conditions.
well houses in my state in mexico are made to survive, multiple reinforced conrete rock mixture with 1 inch metal tubes supporting the structure. these house won't come down easy, sure the windows will break, blast away and probably the doors but everything else will be fine
superpeluso1 lol mine is made of paper😂😂😅
superpeluso1 Shit, my poor childhood ass made Barbie houses out of paper and cardboard that could hold up better than those generic cookie cutter slapped together houses. And I made my Barbie houses out of lots of glue and construction paper, and popsicle sticks which at least are made of real wood lol.
superpeluso1 Lady says I dont understand how life works
homes are built differently depending on which part of the country you are in. Midwest - large brick, sheetrock, slab foundation.
question everything, i was raised to believe that you have to open windows to relieve pressure on your house to keep it from blowing apart. but that is 100% false keep doors and windows closed because if u open them the air flows thru the house and blows the walls and roof off destroying your house quicker then if u keep them shut!!!
Great point!
@@derekwhite9932 if you open your windows your house would have high pressure inside
I just relearned this too.. man all the years running around opening windows. I looked it up a couple weeks ago was very surprised at the answer after being told that my whole life
Now...if the home that collapsed had been positioned to collide with the "better constructed" home, would the better built home survive both the high winds and the collision from all that weight?
My point may seem silly but homes are in subdivisions and if one home comes apart the pieces are likely to collide with homes in the debree path.
I completely agree. Insurance is driven by money. This was an angle proposed to make them more money.
The problem is after the window is broken all your factors change with the difference in pressure/wind speed. Good luck with that!
If people built cement houses, none of these people would have jobs LOL.
Droid Good. They can find jobs building concrete houses then. Just like coal miners and buggy builders. I'm sure the telegraph guys are out of jobs too.
Droid that's what I will be building.
Now even concrete is programmed not to last..
Austin Henning, they would have to start wearing working clothes. Those fancy suits tear easy on work sites.
JR, you can’t beat concrete vs wood. This is why there’s so much destruction after a storm because of the mindset that wood is stronger than reinforced concrete. When a storm blows through a suburb the homes are all leveled. When the storm blows through a city the buildings still stand after a storm.
1:19 No wonder everybody thinks Americans are uneducated, if they let people like her talk on television. What is not to understand about a wooden building that gets torn apart by strong winds?
rubberfresh 1 I wonder if there is a fairy tale about three little pigs in US.
There is, but everyone says it's bullshit and that 'Merican houses are impervious to all damage.
rubberfresh 1 Right!?! We learn that when we're 2 years old and our parents read us the book about the 3 Little Pigs! Haha
Александр Болбат, there is. Apparently these people never read it.
She's probably a diversity hire, to be "inclusive" so we won't hurt the wymmnz feelings, etc...
Base housing on Andersen AFB was poured concrete including a poured concrete roof. Made it though 2 typhoons with zero damage. They can now pour concrete houses using 3D printing.
Shh.... not too loud, you'll offend people's sense of pride and tradition. If you start building concrete homes, you'll take jobs away from handymen and contractors who only work with lumber. People's ancestors died in wars to preserve this distinctly American tradition. There is literally no way these same people could also figure out how to build with ICF reinforced 3d printed anything. -_- sorry for the sarcasm. This is literally the argument most people throw back at me when I ask why we can't follow the example of Guam in these stormy parts of the country that are devastated year after year after year.
You guys build your houses out of wood over there? We use brick in the UK
Dwight 9
Wood's cheap.
Dwight it’s smart it’s stronger
moien haider woods newer than brick? Brick is the strongest you can get other than solid steel and concrete
Whos we?
2:07 EF4 WINDS ARE 165-199 MPH
EF5 WINDS ARE 200+
CAN YOU NOT EVEN DO SIMPLE RESEARCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THE WINDS OF AN EF4 ARE?
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Yeah but a tornado might only last a few minutes hurricane can last days
Ikr
I dont know why tornado prone areas have houses still made of wood? Why not concrete houses with metal reinforcement?
I live in a tropical island with constant typhoons every year and my house is made of concrete, even the roof over head. It made me feel safe for 20 years.
Because it's cheaper, and many who live in tornado country are poor to dirt poor.
They also fail to realize wind is not the only enemy its what the wind carries. Once windows of a home are broken the window goes inside and no matter what the house is made of once those wind speeds are in there its over.
you didnt finish watching did you? that was with doors open
When that lady said they didn't know why the structures failed I LOL'ed. It's made of mostly wood. Wood < 100 mph winds.
Even concrete can collapse. But I bet if you had your way you would regulate it all.
bighands69 True that although concrete can collapse it would take more than 100 mph winds of do it if the structure was properly constructed. I don't live in the USA where houses are made mainly from wood. Where I stay its mostly concrete and the only real damage than can occur would be the roof and windows. About regulation, I wouldn't care what people made their houses of. If it works for them fine, no problem.
bighand69, how many Florida high rises collapsed during all these hurricanes. I never heard of a hurricane flattening a concrete high rise yet.
Just make your houses out of monster truck rollcages.
It's like they didn't pay attention to the 3 little pigs.
I'm sure both homes were made of wood, an excellent building material, but it needs to be reinforced as was the house that was not destroyed. The 100 mile an hour wind is a low category tornado/hurricane. I believe this is the information that they are trying to convey.
Wait... freese
The test was in a Weather Channel special, the winds were only 120 miles an hour, and both houses were made to code, with one of the houses rigged to have its door to swing open to show the damage it can do
one easy question: why don't u use bricks or rocks instead of wood sticks to build?
Ozone I didn’t offend u dumbass... ops!
Ozone if ask a question means to be an idiot... well I’m happy to be an idiot!
Ozone just calm down man, no one is angry with u
Ozone wanna make peace?
Ozone and so why we’re offending each other?
The video raises more questions than answers. In the home that was destroyed, it appears that there are no anchor bolts, ties and hold downs that would be required in a standard residence. This is why the home "slides" off the subfloor - one could assume the other has some type of anchoring system. I also question the way the siding is ripped off the demo home, yet stays intact on the "fortified" home. How is this accomplished - 'IF' all things are equal.
The "Reinforced" home doesnt even have wind blowing at it, Unless they made the flower pot on the porch tornado-proof aswell xD
Makes me wonder how poorly some homes in the US are constructed, by me in England we had 98 mph winds in feburary of this year, all that happened was our bins flew down the road.
It should be required by code to have a small closet like tornado proof storm shelter in every house in tornado alley. The whole house does not be have to be tornado proof. It could be done afford-ably.
Reason why is because midwest homes are made to crap specifications and only cost slightly less than concrete block double strap well built homes. For example midwest homes are built to tolerate 90 mph winds. Many Florida homes after 2008 were built for 150 MPH winds.
Lol. This is my local news channel. I missed this one when it aired years ago.
…And in 2023, homes are still being flattened by tornadoes. Prayers for Mississippi.
The title says the secret tornado-proof building. This video doesn't reveal the secret. what's the secret?
5k to tornado proof a house?
I guarantee you that those upgrades would save you some money on utilities.
Foundation reinforced concrete six feet to the ground, the inner structure is made of a yellow brick exterior granite stone ,it costs a lot of money, but at least I'm sure my house will not fly .Windows and doors have their steel scarfs which automatically drop in critical situations .
What about when a tornado tosses a semi at it?
you mean the concrete is 6 feet underground? please explain
@@pattiannepascual it means 6 foot thick concrete foundations. He almost certainly also has steel bars running through the entire structure to tie it to the foundations. Fairly common construction methods in cyclone prone areas.
If I built my house like a concrete dome it would take the winds of Neptune to destroy it.
Imagine just sitting in the house that's getting a short and literally the freaking house collapses that would have been so funny 😂😂😂😂😂
take an example to the netherlands. not that we need tornado proof houses, but our houses are built with concrete walls and floors and are finished with brick facades and double glass windows. im sure they would withstand a tornado. maybe just some roofs would fly off.
and dont plant big trees near your house!
What they don't tell you is this can't withstand a flying 100 Mph tractor trailer, just another money grab!🤔
Can outstand an EF 4 Tornado.
EF 5 heads for the station
Him: U kidding now
EF 6 Tornado: Hello concrete! Oh pulverized!
Just saying this now it's not going to just be the structural materials but the house has a lot of indented corners or just really weird aerodynamics that could also come into account
The buildings on mt Washington summit in New Hampshire can hold up against 200mph plus wind. And they were built in the 60s. So its not a lack of material or engineering not being advanced enough its all about the money
Those are straight line winds, not cyclonic winds.
Better engineered products can bring the structural integrity of expensive concrete and steel down to an affordable price for the rest of the population though. Pretty sure that was the point. Therefore, it is a lack of material or engineering advancements. Checkmate.
@@Rexvideowow you can't engineer properly for cyclonic winds, because torque will pull the structure into two different directions. Upwards and clockwise. If you want a structure that can handle that kind of stuff, it's going to have to be extremely flexible. Concrete is not that flexible. Neither is brick.
Do you live someplace that gets tornadoes, or do you think because you have knowledge in one field, you're knowledgeable about everything?
@@leesdroidaccountharbin9665 My dad is a tornado, so I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about.
@@Rexvideowow You know your dad?
Can a metal container house withstand a 150mph tornado ?
I have my own theory for a tornado proof house. Let me know if you think it will work?
simple one ridge roofline house. 20 foot wide and X feet long. Whatever length you desire.
Stairs on both ends of the house down to the basement. Dual sump pumps with backup generators/batteries.
The basement has two layers of cement block. The outer layer supports the main house. The inner layer supports steel plate spanning the basement. Bolt it down with anchors in the concrete filled concrete block.
All the bedrooms are in the basement with everything valuable in the basement.
Everything above the steel plate is designed to break away and be replaceable.
If you have concrete walls above the steel plate, like ICF, then it is more difficult to rebuild.
Sleep safe knowing your family is safe.
Insurance would not need to pay as much to rebuild the house.
The one problem I worry about is negative pressure popping the steel plate off.
The other house was like: YOU WERE NOT MEANT TO SEE THIS
Where I live in Europe we got 100mph winds annually in the recent decades and nothing ever happened apart from some minor roof damage… just don’t build your homes from cardboard and wood…
The U.S has experienced tornadoes with winds exceeding 300 mph
My house makes me nervous. It has got to be so unsafe. I live in an "older" house. It was built in the 80's. So this is a little smaller ground area and then a little taller than most houses. Just think, this is a tall house made out of little pieces of wood. That's scary. And we only have a 4 foot block basement. Not very safe.
The 'research' was from a Weather Channel Documentary debunking the myths of opening windows during tornadic force winds.
As a contractor why homes dont withstand is corners are cut when building a home the cheapest materials are bought.my opinion
Do curved and round shaped earthbags/ superadobe houses can be the solution?
As far as I know it is not just the wind but all the material flying through the air at destroys everything. I do not see that in the animation.
You all should stop worrying about what it cost to make a house with stand and EF4 or EF5 tornado what matters is saving lives like I said are you guys care about money and don’t care about saving lives you care about what it cost to make a house or a building to a standard tornado.. Now you guys should start making houses with stand tornadoes and hurricanes I mean there a circle houses out there
I couldnt feel save in a wooden house,
here in germany we only have stone houses.
it is possible to make a cement building or house so the tornado cant destroy
Pro tip: Use stones, cement and eventually steel instead of wood
I mean these types of structures can withstand at least a good amount of mother nature’s normal power but once it gets severe weather who knows
At least the camera was in a metal box.
really? only 100mph winds were used to test the durability of a house? ef5 tornadoes can go over 200 can't they? try testing with THAT power before saying it can withstand tornadoes.
Seems like a good investment.
Looks like the insurance companies are controlling the weather wink wink
They raised the insurance 3x also
How bout DOME-HOUSES?
+Noel Rodriguez Too simple and cost effective.
Not everybody wants to live in a dome shaped house.
bighands69
So? Go live in a house that is square, more expensive and can be far more easily destroyed. No one is forcing people to be sensible.
+Patrick EH (Illogic Buster) Ah, but frankly, _your_ caliber does. Especially when yours has USI syndrome. ;)
So, Patrick is an Illogical Buster. Should've known..
I live in a house built in 1946. It's made of big-block concrete. Only the roof is wood.
People act like brick and concrete isnt used in the USA, which it is. Not even concrete can survive an ef5
The news anchor indicated he noticed both houses eventually got the doors opened, yet that video shows only one door opened. And if the IBHS let it open, they are framing the viewer.-Ernie Moore Jr.
I hope you' know a tornado is a concentrated wall of wind and a hurricane is large spread of wind I don't care if it's a armored house a tornado is going to tear it apart
Looks like the house being pulled away in poltergeist
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If there were some strategically placed steel beams and floor joists, and the wood was screwed together, instead of nailed, a structure might hold up a tad better. I know I have a harder time removing a screw than a nail, so it just seems to make sense. But the extra few seconds per screw(which could lead into hours, for an entire structure) would probably jack the price up, astronomically, in the end. Not to mention screws would cost more. I'm not a handy woman. I'm lucky to be able to paint a wall! But if I was able, I'd build my own house, and use metal and screws, to hold it together. But I'd also have a storm shelter, because I don't know for sure my logic is based on sound evidence.
itsnotthesamething, I love your way of thinking though!
You'd be looking at almost a 10:1 ratio for framing nails vs structural screws as far as time goes. Not to mention with structural screws you are looking at ~ 2.5-3k s crews for a 1,000 sq ft house (no skimping on shit anyway) with the 3 1/2 inch screws costing almost 70 cents per screw you are looking at around 2k for screws alone vs 50$ for 2.5k framing nails. I like the idea of structural screws (not decking screws) but the time and cost is... a bit out there.
cyclone prone areas use brick or concrete walls with reinforced steel frames and steel bars tying the entire structure to the foundations.
@@mobiussquadron which is why it need to be in the building code, as it is in many areas
@@mycosys When I wrote this, I lived in a hurricane zone. I had a pretty sturdy house, so I didn't worry too much about hurricanes. Now I've moved to big tornado country, and live in a match stick house. We plan to build a house soon. I still want a storm cellar though, no matter how well built the house is.
There is another way. I will tell you now.
After you build your "normal" box house you then build a curved circular masonry wall around the outside of the house with space between the house and the wall,
You can plant shrubs around the wall to visually break up the look.
The wall will need to be 6 feet high if possible.
You are trying to keep the wind from grabbing the corners of the structure.
This can be tested also in a wind tunnel test. The wind must be similar to what a tornado would be. Remember my name. I do not have the money to protect my idea.
Duh
Like...this is almost a stupid report
Don't buy a tornado-proof house. Or these ones. They're a fraud.
Buy a house with a well-built storm shelter, and put all of your valuables in that shelter.
This will never work. Unless your building that house to withstand tress, flying cars, other homes and such...good luck
The secret to a tornado proof building is to build it below ground
wow, little did they know what would show up to Joplin the next summer.
Build from concrete and steel like in Europe nobody build with plywood like in the US
that's a shame they really look like nice houses somebody can live in
Concrete and steel dome homes win hands down.
There are SO many things wrong in this video (incorrect EF rating, that stupid ass “we don’t know why they fall apart!” comment, etc) but let’s just focus on the fact that to simulate a tornado, they literally just had some heavy wind in a tunnel and called it a day. I don’t know if this is breaking news, but tornadoes ROTATE. It is the very definition; a column of violently rotating wind. And debris - you know, the *deadliest* part?
Well you just did I seen the house not move. You all have figured out somthing.
Build tornado proof homes in tornado prone areas... Build flood proof homes in floor areas. Build hurricane proof homes in hurricane areas. Trees dont grow fast enough.
Doesn't the triangle shape of roofs also create lift?
US homes look pretty but flimsy. If you build that here termites will eat it in months (even if you treat it first).
It’s all about structural hardware baby. No doubt. Epoxy, strapping, tie-downs etc
The house that stood is made of flex tape
If we only spent 2.5%-10% more to build better homes, we'd save 100% of the total cost and billions of $ lost money on replacing entire neighborhoods every year due to storms. I came across this video because I want to learn how to personally build a reliable home that will last for generations even if no storm hits it. It's just cheap insurance at this point. And $5000 is only 2.5% of the total value of a $200,000 home. 100% worth the investment.
I don't know why but I LOVE seeing huge buildings fail. Dunno why...
The wind proof house: y’all hear sum?
Yikes. My mobile home withstood sustained winds of 75 mph without damage and that house just blew away...Something about that makes little sense. Maybe because they did not anchor the home in any way. Of course we were not IN the home at the time because we will not count on a mobile home for shelter just because it survived once or twice. I live in Florida and we evacuate to either a cbs home rated for a cat3 or if higher than that we would leave the area.
What about when a tornado makes direct contact and just not wind (which this is just a wind tunnel they using)
They need to build these homes like how they do down here in South Florida concrete block and steel they don't blow over they don't even get scratched as long as you got your windows sealed up you're perfectly fine you can withstand up to 200 mile an hour winds you'll get a little shaken up but there wouldn't be no severe damage to the house
For crying out loud America build real homes, how can you tolerate living in a structure that may collapse if you sneeze too hard?
Wouldn't a quantum leap be a ludicrously tiny leap?
Microbursts are no joke.
And today that would be $40000
Why am I here?
Yeah but what happens when the wind picks up a car and slams it into your house at a hundred miles an hour..... the wind isn't clean it's full of debris your neighbors privacy fence is going to shoot holes right through that
Build round homes with a smooth sealed exterior.
Bro, that requires common sense. Builders in tornado alley don't have time for that kinda logic.
You guys should start testing houses that can withstand an EF6 tornado they have been predicting that it will happen eventually not sure what year or what time. But you guys should start testing houses that can with stand EF6 tornadoes that’s basically Stronger winds than an ear five
Nothing will survive a EF6. It would be a killer tornado. A EF5 does Catastrophic damage to even the very best built structures made of reinforced steel and concrete. Tornados winds don't push they suck up everything high into the atmosphere.
Like in a wildfire , why some homes escape tornado
They didn’t know what was coming next...
Teminds me of three pigs building home which were blown by a wolf. Stone (concrete) is naturally much stronger.
Concrete the best material ..
Of course. That is what tornado proof houses are built from all across the USA.
Tell that to Mexico. People die all the time getting crushed
@@patrickeh696 😭🤣 Tornado proof homes in America? That's laughable... You must be thinking about another county.
Wrong dipshit aka @@SpacersRacers
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That was from the weather channel
Unfortunately strong tornado winds will come with debris that will pound houses, that house will be useless.
Yeah, can we have those in hurricane locals?
“100 mph”
So the house is made of cardboard?
You’d have to have winds over 250 mph for it to do that to a house (F4 and above).
There was an F4 in Northridge Ohio on Memorial Day and it didn’t do that. The worst that happened was homes got the roofs ripped off and maybe a downed wall.
If you build the house round wind will not destroy it.
ICF is the way to go for many reasons
Build dome shape houses. It won’t look pretty, but it’s better than losing my home.
I think they should just build homes to commercial codes.