Looking on the news footage about yet another hurricane, I catch myself thinking that it is something basically wrong in that imagery.
If you compare f.e. Florida devastaion images and current footage from Ukraine or Donbass and you are an engineer, than you obviously find out that poor villages on Ukraine damaged diring battles looks better than much more expensive realty remnants in hurricane devastations in US.
And main thing - as engineer you will notice that overhelming majority of US houses destroyed by hurricane is really just a framing from wooden sticks covered by sheets of plywood or drywall, or by planks in the best case, and often don't even have a proper foundation, while on the other side of globe people build their houses from stone, concrete or logs and they withstand even direct hits of shells or missiles.
I don't understand that. If you live in area where hurricanes are not a rare thing, why would you build your house from sticks and plywood instead of building one that will just withstand the storm.
In Russia framed houses exists too, but it is usually a cheap vacation homes where people spend weekends. If one decide to live permanently in a rural area, the house from bricks, concrete or logs would be built, even if there is no any historical records of hurricanes or tornadoes in region.
So why build houses that are absolutely not designed for the hurricanes in area where hurricanes are regular thing, instead of just building concrete houses that will sustain hurricanes with minimum damage? Replacing few windows are much cheaper than rebuilding even cheapest possible framed house from the ground. And you hardly have a probability of injury or death if a hurricane catch you in normal building.
Even more - I know that in Montana, f.e., where hurricanes are not an issue, some people build houses from logs, that with high probability will withstand hurricane. And even on some footages from Florida I saw rare untouched concrete buildings among the totally destroyed realty.
So what I'm missing here? Why in areas that often hit by hurricanes people don't bother to build normal, reliable houses from proper materials and instead continue to build a boxes from sticks and plywood again and again with the same result after next hurricane?
Water damage is a whole other beast compared to a basic tornado, water damage causes mold (which quickly grows out of control in places like Florida), serious foundation issues and so on, imagine spending way more money on a house that doesn't get "blown away" in a hurricane but still has to be condemned, demolished and rebuilt anyway, that's why people go for cheaply built, since eventually it'll have to be rebuilt anyway, and then it's just a roll of the dice whether it happens in their lifetime / while they own the property
I accept that explanation. Looks logical.
I have a spring floods here, when snow thaw, not heavy, but noticeable. I just made a monolite steel reinforced concrete basement, with addition of hydrophobic and sealing additives to concrete. No problems with leaks and no any mold at all. I got it flooded inside once when water pipe cracked. Was filled with water by one third. Just pumped out all water and dried it. That's all. No mold whatsoever. Basement is heated so no difference due to climate. Mold is not a rare thing outside. Stones and concrete things outside that are in shadows on the ground are covered by mold every summer, so mold spores are present everywhere.
So differences I see are salted water and may be different kind of mold. Interesting, how mold could destroy concrete in warm climate. "Black mold" that exists here could destroying concrete, making it more soaking, but you need water and freeze-unfreese cycles to really finish the job. Without freezing black mold itself can't significantly damage concrete. And it does not survive on concrete with sealing additives.
Meanwhile I can't say basement was much more expensive than regular ribbon concrete foundation. Basically it is the same thing, just with soil dugged out and a floor. IDK, may be ~30% more expensive, mostly because of more concrete and reinforcements that are relatively cheap.
Most people on the earth are retarded.
But that is not insurance companies who force people to build weak houses. And even with insurance - it will be at least few weeks to build a new house, and even with insurance it will not be an easy walk for the family who lost everything. I can't believe that even most retarded person will accept that as a norm and will not at least thinking about resolving it once and forever.
My assumptions was that may be it is mostly a rented houses and owner don't care about problems of clients and don't want to spend more money to build normal houses and perfectly fine with such state of affairs especially if his tenants have to pay insurance premiums. Or that is a kind of communities with some stupid "rules" where land owners are not allowed to build anything that is different from community approved projects. Or some other kind of legislation rules or whatever.
That would be because news crews don't go around filming the houses that are built in the way you described because....they don't make for very good footage to affect the viewer emotionally and stay invested with the newscast and not click away during commercials.
Why do you think the "mostly peaceful protests" still had flaming wreckage in their backgrounds? That would be because they are still hardwired to create newscasts in a certain way as I described above, even after given specific instructions to downplay their mentally ill brown shirts destruction of the west.
Plenty of builders do exactly as you mention. Sorry to interrupt the anti-america circle jerk. You may continue.
Got it! Engineering questions are anti-american. And math is racist. OK :) :) :)
Of course I understand news bias and intention to show the worst, and as I mentioned, even in such biased news I still see untouched normal buildings surrounded by devastation.
But it is still unclear for me why in such hurricane rich places still exist any areas that continue to give that devastation footage for the news.
IDK, say nobody build houses in the Northen regions without good thermal insulation. So even if you need a fearmongering picture of hundreds of frozen out houses with freezing families in trouble from yearly disaster named winter, you will not be able to find anything.
But somehow, in the abovementioned Florida, there are still plenty of places where news could easily get nasty pictures of devastation every year.
I understand that. I don't understand why there still exists districts or counties that get destroyed every year.
There are no districts or counties that massively freeze out to death every year in nothern regions f.e. But in much more pleasant (and so more expensive) places to live, somehow such districts exists.
Funny, I mentioned f,e. Montana where, suddenly, people never build houses that are not suitable for local weather conditions. You hardly find a a single house with thin walls and without insulation that will not withstand cold weather in winter. Somehow Montana is not a part of US now?
If you want to stick a label to me, choose something else. Say something about "anti-southern coastal circle-jerk" or whatever term you have for that hurricane prone regions.
If you are heavily abused by comparison of something american with something from other country and feel raped or offended like LGBTXYZ+ whiners, then tell me please, why in Montana US people always build houses appropriate for local regular cold winters, but in Florida US people are not always build houses appropriate for regular hurricanes. Both states I compare here are in US, so you should not be offended.
Sometimes you just realize hurricanes are less destructive than leftwingers. Most hurricane country is red and Christian
banks, the building industry, and developers encourage this kind of behavior/market.
also, the groups that set building/fire/electrical codes and regulations are pretty much taken over by manufacturers of building/construction products. ironically, the only thing that keeps the US from having China-level building practices is pushback by the insurance industry.
Don't forget that the Federal gov will bail them out with money from people that live in reasonable places.
I understand that ratio of destroyed houses to the total number of houses in region could be low.
But, IDK, If I would know that for years one or another village in region hit with hurricane, I will still build a home that meant to sustain hurricane, even if it eventually never will hit my home. Home is something that have to be reliable, it is not some temporary shelter when you could disregard such probabilities.
For me your logic is fine only for rented house. Then, yes, I will not care much about such probability, because even this happen, I'll just rent another house.
Because of salted sea water destroys foundation? Or what is the reason of condemning?
This could be the simplest explanation. It's just "dachas" (summer cottage communities) that is being destroyed and then shown in news. People use them only once or twice a year and they are in no way a permanent residences.
According to the Mormons and also HP lovecraft the land from Floridas gulf side to Texas and forming a triangle up to the bottom tip of illinois (Cairo Illinois) was completely underwater and that a race of serpent-like fish race was worshipped here and also in New England area (portsmouth like in lovecrafts story). The island south of Alabama currently called Dauphin Island was much larger and is where the worshippers of this race performed human sacrifices to them and after hundreds of years the island was quite large. At the end of this time when Europeans began to first arrive it was called Slaughter Island. Now, like Florida it is popular vacation spot for wealthy obese people. It seems to be also connected to the the two solar eclipses that (april 2017 and may 2024) which both eclipses reach their totality over Cairo Illinois signaling a time for calculating some coming catastrophic event.