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35. Rethink building design

It should be obvious to people that we need to rethink building design in areas where tornadoes are common. The sheer magnitude of the destruction argues for a comprehensive approach to building codes, especially for school buildings. Native Americans who lived in these areas, namely the Mound Builders, apparently learned the basics in this regard. In Louis Henry Morgan's Houses and House Life of the American Aborigines, published in 1881, Morgan describes the design of houses,materials and placement on the landscape. All these elements need to be reconsidered today in areas where tornadoes are common.
Mound builders may have placed their buildings in the lay of the land and in directions seldom at variance with the direction of tornadoes. Though data on the history of tornadoes varies by location, in some areas it shows that they follow the same path and time of year, see Thomas Spencer, The Birmingham News, May 22nd, 2010. Information on Moundbuilder homes is scarce but the mounds in general show contours in line with the topography. Their layout appears a graceful set of curves, many of the buildings that are known or reported were made with ramps and set into the ground with pits. This may be a future research area for rebuilding areas where tornadoes are common today. Some mound sites can be seen in Jennings, Prehistory of North America, 1968, or on many websites. The only actual images of how the Moundbuilders built homes is from a few surviving copies of now lost watercolors by French explorer Jacques Le Moyne who visited a Moundbuilder site in the 1560s.