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This really doesn't feel like the right question. The only safe(ish) place in a tornado is being in a building or bunker rated for a tornado. The technology e
by LinuxBender 5y ago
This really doesn't feel like the right question. The only safe(ish) place in a tornado is being in a building or bunker rated for a tornado. The technology exists. I think I would ask:
- Are insurance companies incentivizing building certified shelters by lowering insurance for those that get said building certifications? This question also applies to residential homes.
- Are state and federal governments incentivizing building certified shelters by giving tax breaks to businesses that get said building certifications and have them inspected annually?
- Are any construction companies providing services to retrofit buildings in tornado prone locations? If there is money to be made I believe this would become a thing.
Whether people are working, eating or sleeping I think is not as relevant as mitigating the root cause of a well known risk and incorporating that into business cost and offsetting the retrofit with tax exemptions and write-offs. If you want your folks to keep working during a tornado, then design the building to handle one. Switzerland somehow managed to address this issue for an even less likely risk, as nearly all homes have a fallout bunker.
- ponow 5y agoPeople already have an incentive to save their lives.
- throwawayboise 5y agoSure, and people make risk judgements every day. We get in our cars and drive. That decision assumes a risk of death or serious injury. Is it worth risking death to drive to the store for a pint of ice cream? Not in the abstract, but we all do it. Life isn't perfectly safe, and cannot be made so for anything approaching reasonable economic tradeoffs.