gut;1445721 wrote:What's outrageous is think of all the new schools built in the last 10-15 years...many sitting vacant or well below capacity. Then here's a school in tornado alley that can't withstand an F4 and has no safe shelter for students.
Uh the only thing that can withstand an F4 or 5 which this is is a nuclear bunker or a nuclear reactor
gut;1445715 wrote:On a serious note, they always say go for a ditch if you have no shelter. Seeing what that did, I would keep looking for shelter. Crazy - never seen so many homes just laid bare all the way to the foundation.
I guess they don't build a local 7-11 with reinforced concrete. Short of better options, I'd think my chances were decent in a modern block building.
They died from all of the pipes exploding in the school flooding the downstairs. Also you have only a 45% of survival in a basement when directly hit by an EF5 and 5% when inside a building. That's really the thing about an EF5, it's the one known to scour the ground and sweep slabs bare.
Also let me say this, as bad as the damage was here I believe some of the stuff seen in Alabama was worse. This damage wasn't quite as bad as what happened in Phil Campbell and Hackleberg. This was startling here...
Here you can see the pavement actually scoured off
And this was a neighborhood full of brick houses
Just to think that this tornado 2 years ago killed 72, and did it basically in exclusively rural areas speaks to the absolute power of this. I believe what hit Moore was close to, but not at the level of this. This thing in Moore would have killed many more
