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Why don't all buildings have cellars/basements in these tornado prone locations? Kids in a school hallway? Those poor babies. This doesn't make sense to me.
Does anyone know?
alsame
(7,784 posts)schools and hospitals, at the very least, would have underground shelters.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Cost? The bedrock is shallow here in N Tx... Maybe its the same there... That's what we did too, line up in hallways against the walls... Those poor kids... It is beyond terrifying
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Another Goddam Gubmink reggalashun fum da Nanny State.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)gravel roads to her school which was overflowing with kids who were taught in mobile home type structures to absorb the overflow. One of them would go for one hell of a ride in a tornado.
These red state inhabitants love their low taxes.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Most of Oklahoma and about 1/2 of Texas is a think skin of soil over solid rock.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)according to people I know from there
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Perhaps you're thinking of most of the southern gulf states, in the coastal areas- Houston, New Orleans, Mobile.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)I would think the rebuild would have included those precautions.
librechik
(30,674 posts)other kids unknown, probably in school hallway.
Nay
(12,051 posts)tornado? Like a reinforced concrete bunker/pipe built above ground? Surely that would be preferable to what we are seeing on TV right now.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Most houses are built on concrete slab foundations - with no basements.
A lot different down here than it is up north.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I was born and raised in suburban Chicago and went to 4 elementary schools, one Jr. High and one High School. All had basements except for one elementary school. It was one of those quickie jobs to stop overcrowding at other local schools, so the layout and construction was kind of odd.
Every house I lived in had a basement.
I do remember tornado drills, clearly. Only one of the schools actually had us file down to the basement. The others taught us to sit in the hallway with our head between our knees and our necks covered. Probably because there wasn't enough room in the basement.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)and basements, just like you see in the movies.
That's where I grew up.
Some schools and hospitals do as well.
With the technology we have today on predictions and building "safe rooms" (even above ground), deaths from tornadoes should be very rare.
Texasgal
(17,045 posts)by a severe tornado.
The rebuilding with storm shelters should have been mandatory.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)"The rebuilding with storm shelters should have been mandatory. "
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/oklahoma/81711-why-no-basements-most-homes-oklahoma-6.html#ixzz2TsEhFyQ0