Really glad to see you guys mention the possibility of retrofitting structures to be able to withstand stronger winds. A lot of people aren't even aware that their houses don't have these things, but it's a relatively cheap fix given the potential damages!
I live on the west coast and all new construction is more or less earthquake resistant. Or retrofitting an older house to its foundation is relatively cost effective
I dunno how true my statement is, but I think a lot of American homes are built in such cheap way are for the companies that make these homes. If homes get destroyed almost annually, there's always some sort of business building them. Planned obsolescence?
I grew up in Michigan in a sturdy brick Craftsman bungalow with a basement. As an adult I was in Dallas, TX for 5 years. My son is now in Tuscaloosa, AL. I cannot understand why places like TX & AL that frequently get tornadoes don't build all houses with basements. When we were thinking of buying a house in Dallas, I told my husband "I am the 3d little piggy. I want a house built of bricks. These are all built of straw & sticks for the 1st & 2d piggies. One good huff & puff from the big bad wolf and they are gone." Yep, you learn all the important stuff by kindergarten.
Love all the details on tornado formation, I'd be down to see even more general meteorology on this channel, learning about all the fronts and gyres and stuff
Can't believe I just learned about this channel today, I thought I had subbed to them all, so I am very glad to add another one to the list (especially one with such interesting topics)
Nick Stewart is extremely talented. He's a mandatory follow on social media. A great decision to include him in this piece. I also want one of those concrete shelters. Looks sturdy.
Figured I should give this a watch as a refresher for myself now that tornado season is here; I've been lucky enough that I haven't seen a direct hit in my area, but we've had some very close calls and it's always good to stay prepared
There's nothing more precious than free knowledge.. its good to know which states have wonky laws.. its not cool to skimp out on safety to sell a home.. let's have a heart here..
A concrete safe room at the absolute lowest point is your best bet unless your in a flood zone but that's the best solution, the quickest and most financially attainable for the average person but still can be pricey.
I was in Lawrence when it hit South of Lawrence. Linwood is 18 miles from Lawrence. The destruction South of Lawrence along K-10 Highway showed the width of the tornado in the treeline. It looked wider than a mile to me. When did they down grade it to an EF4? I recall it being called an EF5. A weatherman on the radio doing the play by play said there were 2 tornadoes orbiting the big one.
my 6 year old niece who lives outisde of america asks me the question why do people there live in stick houses? didn't their momma read them the story of the three little pigs?
@@coryCuc I know the labour is cheap and insurance is claimable for a wooden house but considering the many times it is brought down, you must shift and u will perhaps in the future where the global warming would make the Defforesfation ban and the next abundant is offcourse the soil....
I’m not joking, one time during a tornado drill, my class was waiting in the hall and I could literally see windows. Schools should have much better tornado drills locations, then just go into a hallway and sit on the floor because it does very little, when windows are within sight or there are outer walls in the area where the tornado drill is being held. The good news is that I live in an area that rarely gets tornadoes, but if there actually was a tornado, a lot of students and staff members are going to die, due to poor locations used during the tornado. I wish schools took natural disasters more seriously.
I was living just north of the tornado they talked about when it came through. Same county, but we just got rain and wind, which was still strong enough to mess things up from the trees getting thrashed. At least with an earthquake you know where your stuff is still roughly. Tornadoes will take it all away literally.
They do some of both. Strong opposing forces, including extreme barometric pressure variations within a tornado, make them so dangerous. There's lots of great info online; I found graphics and animations a fun way to learn more about tornado dynamics. There are tons online.
I’m watching from Australia 🥰🐨 and IT BOGGLES THE MIND WHY NO TORNADO BUILDING CODE!!!?!?!? 🙈🌪🏡🏚🤷🏼♀️ WHY NOT??? Anyway - great little programme!! Informative & entertaining 👌🏽☺️
Real Estate and Construction lobby. It raises the cost of a home and makes them harder to sell. Cut corners, make your money, and move on to the next one.
I grew up in west Texas and tornadoes still terrify me, even video of them just shakes me to my bones. The scariest things on earth. I lived through Hurricane Katrina and I wasn't as scared of that storm as I am of tornadoes. Why would anyone NOT improve building codes for places that see them so frequently? And hearing that there will only be more such storms in the southeast where I'm living now - in a place where the water table is high and the soil is mostly sand - you can't have cellars here. So when there ARE tornadoes (and we've had them, bad ones that tore apart brick buildings and shredded a facade at one college and utterly destroyed an entire building at another college), the best people can do is an inside hallway or maybe a bathroom. It isn't good. And even worse - these disasters, like so many others, disproportionately affect people of lower income, in poorer housing, who don't have the options of a safe room or retro-fitting simply because any cost at all is too much money. Knowing all this, this whole video had me in tears. But I am glad you present this information without fear mongering, with clear and straight forward facts. It surely will help people. And maybe someday we can even get codes in place that can prevent some of the worst destruction.
I should make mention that I feel the EF scale is flawed... it is measured by damage dealt, not windspeed... I feel this leads to complacency and people not taking things serious...
My brother once went out to the screenhouse where his sons were playing and asked them to come in. They said, “Aww, Dad!”He responded, “ a good citizen seeks safety!” A tornado then went up the street they lived on, they never found the screenhouse.
You know, with micro technology, they could actually make the reflectors on the roads into mico weather stations with solar energy providing power and wireless transmitter to send the data. That might be expensive, but the fact remains that tornadoes cross roads all the time and such a small device could get more accurate data that might help tell the difference between tornado production and just a nasty super cell. You'd never know until you try.
Find a contractor or engineer and build or overbuild it yourself! Codes are just a minimum, enough to make it stand until the mortgage is paid! ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Here in Ireland we don't get tornadoes, or any kind of exciting weather for that matter, but all our houses are made from concrete and brick. I live in an old farmhouse, for example, and the walls are literally over 2 foot thick, absolutely solid stone. People living in tornado country, and building houses from wood, sounds absolutely bonkers to me.
Interesting. People in Hawaii do the same thing to their houses. It’s supposed to keep the house in one piece in a strong hurricane with comparable wind speeds. Guess that’s not surprising. Seems to work.
@@maiyamay_ You're a quality host, real personable and natural looking on camera. Plus, the vid's are top notch with real information but doesn't bog ya down with industry speak. Primo work.
@@LimeyLassen Where in the world do you live? lol. I live in the middle of Tornado alley and virtually every house is made of concrete and brick. Not everyone can afford houses made of brick/concrete so obviously wood is used which is why many mobile homes and said houses have basements or storm cellars.
It doesn't matter it might help but you'd have to drop tens of thousands on your new home even then if the foundation sucks and you don't have steel shutters it won't really matter especially in an f4 or f5
@@coryCuc Its true. I’ve also seen tornadoes rip asphalt from roads, and knock brick/stone homes down to the ground, just the same as wood built homes.
I lived in Tulsa (in tornado alley) for a total of 13 years. The second time I lived in a house with a basement which was a big relief. Tornado forecasting and warnings are much, much better now with Doppler radar and warning sirens. Only one tornado actually touched down in the city while I lived there and it took the roof off about a dozen houses and reduced a couple more to bare slabs. No fatalities.
Yes, we’ve definitely come a long way w/ early warnings. SPC does a great job mapping out areas at risk of severe weather, days in advance. I’m always super impressed w/ the accuracy.
Can't help but thinking bricks and mortar would be a better option or is this not on the table in these areas. Worked for one of the 3 little pigs at least 💁♂️
Well yeah, you're a tiny little island lol. The UK gets about 25 tornadoes a year. Most of them cause little to no structural damage. The US gets over 1,000. Imagine an EF 5 ripping through downtown London. I'm not sure what the point you're trying to make is? but it's a bad comparison.
@@coryCuc tiny? It's one of the biggest islands on the planet. Also I fear you may be confusing actual tornadoes with reported tornadoes from the general public. I've seen one tornado and two waterspouts from my apartment windows inside 24 months.
@@NeonVisual When you consider that some "islands" aren't considered islands, they are considered "land masses," the UK is not that big. It's only about 70k sq miles. I'm still not sure what the point is that you are making? Heck, Texas gets 6 times the tornados that the UK does and that's just one state. And the tornadoes we get in the the States are massive. There's no other place in the world that has a geographical location like Tornado Alley. Check out Pecos Hank's channel for some huge EF 5 tornados. Joplin, Moore, etc...
Maiya the false eyelashes distract from both your natural beauty and your professional presentation. Of course, they are very trendy but really? Otherwise, love your work!
The content of these videos is amazing, however, I cannot enjoy them as much as I would like as I am distracted by the eyebrows. Please, please pencil them in where they are supposed to be as they are just WRONG.
@@maiyamay_ Sorry, most just ignore me for my ramblings, 'cause I don't seem to be able to self sensor at all. I am an old hippy and we were happy with what nature gave us. I should learn to shut up. Still great videos though and I will try to keep my fingers off the keyboard in future.
These are so well done. Hats off to all involved in this series.
Thanks Dustin! Happy to hear you’re enjoying the show 😄
Really glad to see you guys mention the possibility of retrofitting structures to be able to withstand stronger winds. A lot of people aren't even aware that their houses don't have these things, but it's a relatively cheap fix given the potential damages!
I live on the west coast and all new construction is more or less earthquake resistant. Or retrofitting an older house to its foundation is relatively cost effective
I dunno how true my statement is, but I think a lot of American homes are built in such cheap way are for the companies that make these homes. If homes get destroyed almost annually, there's always some sort of business building them. Planned obsolescence?
Good point.
Goes to show you when the the market is free, it's the public that foots the bill.
I grew up in Michigan in a sturdy brick Craftsman bungalow with a basement. As an adult I was in Dallas, TX for 5 years. My son is now in Tuscaloosa, AL. I cannot understand why places like TX & AL that frequently get tornadoes don't build all houses with basements. When we were thinking of buying a house in Dallas, I told my husband "I am the 3d little piggy. I want a house built of bricks. These are all built of straw & sticks for the 1st & 2d piggies. One good huff & puff from the big bad wolf and they are gone." Yep, you learn all the important stuff by kindergarten.
Love all the details on tornado formation, I'd be down to see even more general meteorology on this channel, learning about all the fronts and gyres and stuff
Have you heard of Dr. Leigh Orf? His supercomputer models of tornadogenesis are beyond cool.
Nick Stewart is one of my local meteorologists, he covered the august Derecho here in Iowa
I was blown away by this video! 🌪🏚😵
A lot of money and resources would be saved if there was a building code in place.
Can't believe I just learned about this channel today, I thought I had subbed to them all, so I am very glad to add another one to the list (especially one with such interesting topics)
Nick Stewart is extremely talented. He's a mandatory follow on social media. A great decision to include him in this piece. I also want one of those concrete shelters. Looks sturdy.
Figured I should give this a watch as a refresher for myself now that tornado season is here; I've been lucky enough that I haven't seen a direct hit in my area, but we've had some very close calls and it's always good to stay prepared
PBS Terra congratulations at hitting 100k you people deserve it a lot keep these interesting videos coming love ya all 😎.
Love to hear this! Thank you 😄
Thank you for adding metric conversions!
100K subscribers 🎉️👏
YES, i’m doing a little celebratory dance right now, lol💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
Maiya I just subscribed to your Channel because I believe you make nice presentations.
what an excellent series of videos. i hope more local governments will update building codes to wisely protect against probable natural disasters.
There's nothing more precious than free knowledge.. its good to know which states have wonky laws.. its not cool to skimp out on safety to sell a home.. let's have a heart here..
Genuine question: why the USA doesn't have concrete+brick houses?
We do in Florida... Not every house is concrete+brick, but a good majority of them are, I live in one.
@@the_rubbish_bin Good to know! :D
A concrete safe room at the absolute lowest point is your best bet unless your in a flood zone but that's the best solution, the quickest and most financially attainable for the average person but still can be pricey.
I was in Lawrence when it hit South of Lawrence. Linwood is 18 miles from Lawrence. The destruction South of Lawrence along K-10 Highway showed the width of the tornado in the treeline. It looked wider than a mile to me. When did they down grade it to an EF4? I recall it being called an EF5. A weatherman on the radio doing the play by play said there were 2 tornadoes orbiting the big one.
Respect the polygon!
🗣🗣 Say it again!
I have lived through so many of these terrible nightmares one less of everything sounds great to me.
Agreed! 👏🏽
@@maiyamay_ :)
:)
my 6 year old niece who lives outisde of america asks me the question why do people there live in stick houses? didn't their momma read them the story of the three little pigs?
Being the one place in the world with constant and massive tornadoes you'd expect all buildings not made of plywood and glue.
why not build houses using bricks and concrete.....
It's more expensive. Many houses are. Just depends on the area.
@@coryCuc I know the labour is cheap and insurance is claimable for a wooden house but considering the many times it is brought down, you must shift and u will perhaps in the future where the global warming would make the Defforesfation ban and the next abundant is offcourse the soil....
@@anishaditya4400 Wood is a renewable resource. Perfectly acceptable to build houses and other products from wood.
@@coryCuc trees takes time to grow,
@@anishaditya4400 No kidding. Cut one down, plant one or two more. Been doing it for decades. Cut the aged trees, don't touch the growing trees.
This videos should become a standard to show at schools.
I’m not joking, one time during a tornado drill, my class was waiting in the hall and I could literally see windows. Schools should have much better tornado drills locations, then just go into a hallway and sit on the floor because it does very little, when windows are within sight or there are outer walls in the area where the tornado drill is being held.
The good news is that I live in an area that rarely gets tornadoes, but if there actually was a tornado, a lot of students and staff members are going to die, due to poor locations used during the tornado.
I wish schools took natural disasters more seriously.
I was living just north of the tornado they talked about when it came through. Same county, but we just got rain and wind, which was still strong enough to mess things up from the trees getting thrashed. At least with an earthquake you know where your stuff is still roughly. Tornadoes will take it all away literally.
And earthquakes (large ones) are rare where tornadoes are pretty common
From what I understood tornados don't "suck" they blow down and out
They do some of both. Strong opposing forces, including extreme barometric pressure variations within a tornado, make them so dangerous. There's lots of great info online; I found graphics and animations a fun way to learn more about tornado dynamics. There are tons online.
I’m watching from Australia 🥰🐨 and IT BOGGLES THE MIND WHY NO TORNADO BUILDING CODE!!!?!?!? 🙈🌪🏡🏚🤷🏼♀️ WHY NOT???
Anyway - great little programme!! Informative & entertaining 👌🏽☺️
Real Estate and Construction lobby. It raises the cost of a home and makes them harder to sell. Cut corners, make your money, and move on to the next one.
Build a house that last forever and never need repair.
Don't write on the screen please we can't see
I grew up in west Texas and tornadoes still terrify me, even video of them just shakes me to my bones. The scariest things on earth. I lived through Hurricane Katrina and I wasn't as scared of that storm as I am of tornadoes.
Why would anyone NOT improve building codes for places that see them so frequently?
And hearing that there will only be more such storms in the southeast where I'm living now - in a place where the water table is high and the soil is mostly sand - you can't have cellars here. So when there ARE tornadoes (and we've had them, bad ones that tore apart brick buildings and shredded a facade at one college and utterly destroyed an entire building at another college), the best people can do is an inside hallway or maybe a bathroom. It isn't good.
And even worse - these disasters, like so many others, disproportionately affect people of lower income, in poorer housing, who don't have the options of a safe room or retro-fitting simply because any cost at all is too much money.
Knowing all this, this whole video had me in tears. But I am glad you present this information without fear mongering, with clear and straight forward facts. It surely will help people.
And maybe someday we can even get codes in place that can prevent some of the worst destruction.
tornadoes are terrifying
I should make mention that I feel the EF scale is flawed... it is measured by damage dealt, not windspeed... I feel this leads to complacency and people not taking things serious...
My brother once went out to the screenhouse where his sons were playing and asked them to come in. They said, “Aww, Dad!”He responded, “ a good citizen seeks safety!” A tornado then went up the street they lived on, they never found the screenhouse.
My family was sheltering from a tornado once, my dog peed on my head.
In the event of a tornado, I'm going to the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid. May it's structure and Aliens protect me.
You know, with micro technology, they could actually make the reflectors on the roads into mico weather stations with solar energy providing power and wireless transmitter to send the data. That might be expensive, but the fact remains that tornadoes cross roads all the time and such a small device could get more accurate data that might help tell the difference between tornado production and just a nasty super cell. You'd never know until you try.
No code? The lethal dangers of "small government".
Small government doesn't care about people!
Find a contractor or engineer and build or overbuild it yourself! Codes are just a minimum, enough to make it stand until the mortgage is paid!
¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
@@WowUrFcknHxC big government does? Lol point me that direction haha
@@gus473 that is the truth entirely.
Watching this as the daily windstorm blows outside.
Warning Sign - Warning Sign!
I see it, but I pay it no mind.
Talking Heads
A story about a powerful tornado: Gone With The Wind.
You couldn't GIVE me a new house, may as well be a trailer.
What did Native Americans live in prior to these large structure houses?
Building codes? Sounds like scary S O C I A L I S M lmao
Loved this, very informative!!! Hopefully, building codes will be revised/implemented now
Here in Ireland we don't get tornadoes, or any kind of exciting weather for that matter, but all our houses are made from concrete and brick.
I live in an old farmhouse, for example, and the walls are literally over 2 foot thick, absolutely solid stone. People living in tornado country, and building houses from wood, sounds absolutely bonkers to me.
Very informative!
Interesting. People in Hawaii do the same thing to their houses. It’s supposed to keep the house in one piece in a strong hurricane with comparable wind speeds. Guess that’s not surprising. Seems to work.
I am currently living in a six bedroom log cabin, with everything tied together with rebar. Our problem is sinking, not tornadoes.
great video
Thanks! 😄
@@maiyamay_ You're a quality host, real personable and natural looking on camera. Plus, the vid's are top notch with real information but doesn't bog ya down with industry speak. Primo work.
Just a note to the creator ro whomever wrote the description: Kansas is abbreviated ks not ka. Could you please update that? Thank you so very much.
Just talk to reed timmer
Why do dads stand on the front porch, drink beer, and watch the tornado hit though?
Thank you. Prayers for all effected. I live in Southern California. We have earthquakes but I think a tornado is more scary. 🙏💪💙
We are getting earth quakes now too lol not as bad....yet lol
Hello it seems like you are the first to comment
Love this new series. Ive been binging through them
Also I don't understand why Americans build homes out of wood.
Wood? More like toothpicks and paper.
Because USA is a nation that rarely plans for the future.
@@LimeyLassen Where in the world do you live? lol. I live in the middle of Tornado alley and virtually every house is made of concrete and brick. Not everyone can afford houses made of brick/concrete so obviously wood is used which is why many mobile homes and said houses have basements or storm cellars.
It doesn't matter it might help but you'd have to drop tens of thousands on your new home even then if the foundation sucks and you don't have steel shutters it won't really matter especially in an f4 or f5
@@coryCuc Its true. I’ve also seen tornadoes rip asphalt from roads, and knock brick/stone homes down to the ground, just the same as wood built homes.
Fantastic video, thanks to all involved!
I lived in Tulsa (in tornado alley) for a total of 13 years. The second time I lived in a house with a basement which was a big relief. Tornado forecasting and warnings are much, much better now with Doppler radar and warning sirens. Only one tornado actually touched down in the city while I lived there and it took the roof off about a dozen houses and reduced a couple more to bare slabs. No fatalities.
Yes, we’ve definitely come a long way w/ early warnings. SPC does a great job mapping out areas at risk of severe weather, days in advance. I’m always super impressed w/ the accuracy.
Thanks
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I love these videos💨
Can't help but thinking bricks and mortar would be a better option or is this not on the table in these areas. Worked for one of the 3 little pigs at least 💁♂️
8:19 * laughs in european * i wouldn't stay in any one of this cardboard houses
Lightweight houses & heavyweight cars: 'Murica.
Ah Cost cutting
Americans in 2021: Let's build weather proof houses
Europeans: We have already done that for centuries
Just pointing out that the UK gets more tornadoes per square mile than anywhere else.
Well yeah, you're a tiny little island lol. The UK gets about 25 tornadoes a year. Most of them cause little to no structural damage. The US gets over 1,000. Imagine an EF 5 ripping through downtown London. I'm not sure what the point you're trying to make is? but it's a bad comparison.
@@coryCuc tiny? It's one of the biggest islands on the planet. Also I fear you may be confusing actual tornadoes with reported tornadoes from the general public. I've seen one tornado and two waterspouts from my apartment windows inside 24 months.
@@NeonVisual When you consider that some "islands" aren't considered islands, they are considered "land masses," the UK is not that big. It's only about 70k sq miles. I'm still not sure what the point is that you are making? Heck, Texas gets 6 times the tornados that the UK does and that's just one state. And the tornadoes we get in the the States are massive. There's no other place in the world that has a geographical location like Tornado Alley. Check out Pecos Hank's channel for some huge EF 5 tornados. Joplin, Moore, etc...
That's cute lol
There's a chance, that right where the tornado first touches down, you will find a couple of hail stones that will melt away in no time at all.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Construction is done so cheaply and lazily these days.
Maiya the false eyelashes distract from both your natural beauty and your professional presentation. Of course, they are very trendy but really? Otherwise, love your work!
Why build a house made of wood when living in a tornado area?
it boggles my mind how people still build wooden barns with windows for people to live in in a climate they have instead of solid structures
well maybe its a good idea to stop building houses where u can litterly punch a hole in the wall
My grandpa was driving his truck when he survived an E3 tornado. Said the only thing that got sucked up was his hair
Okay, I think we may need to interview him for a future episode lol.
Why are they building houses with wood? in my country we build homes with bricks and concrete
Apparently its too expensive
What's with the cocktail waitress fake eyelashes? Not helpful.
The content of these videos is amazing, however, I cannot enjoy them as much as I would like as I am distracted by the eyebrows.
Please, please pencil them in where they are supposed to be as they are just WRONG.
Would absolutely LOVE to have you as my make up artist for future episodes. What are your rates? 😃
@@maiyamay_ Sorry, most just ignore me for my ramblings, 'cause I don't seem to be able to self sensor at all.
I am an old hippy and we were happy with what nature gave us.
I should learn to shut up.
Still great videos though and I will try to keep my fingers off the keyboard in future.
@@robertgolding lol, aw it’s all good Robert! I forgive you 😄. Happy to hear you’re enjoying the show.