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Offline Coladar

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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #50: May 24, 2013, 10:46:43 PM »

oh I get that, I'm just I guess replying to the idea that people should be forced to not live there due to an off chance they'll get hit by a tornado. This isn't a case of new Orleans where massive hurricanes are bound to happen eventually.

I'd hope nobody thinks that people should be forced to not live somewhere due to tornadic threats. Even Moore, hit repeatedly with big bad f4s, you're looking at, at worst, one to two mile wide paths. They can travel quite some distance, sometimes even 60+ miles, but even the worst of the worst have relatively small areas of total destruction width-wise. Certainly nothing like what one finds with hurricanes or earthquakes where entire cities, states even, can get wiped out.

But for Moore, since they will rebuild, I just think going to the extreme to safeguard future events isn't uncalled for. At least not for schools, a rare example in that area of a densely populated structure. Beyond hitting downtown of a city, you mainly see sparsely spread out homes/farms. But with a school, hundreds of kids in one building... in the unlikely event a tornado did hit one, you're looking at a huge loss of life.

On a similar note to this topic of rebuilding and whatnot with regards to tornadoes, maybe for a place like Moore you just dramatically spread things out. No one would ever do this, but if you don't have buildings within feet of each other, or non-farm homes built close by one another, you could really mitigate the damage and deaths if a tornado does hit. The closer people are to each other, the worse things will be if they do get hit again. So definitely don't force anyone to leave/not rebuild, but even with the absolute destructive force of F4-F5 tornadoes there are ways to prevent or lessen any losses.