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Taipei 101 has survived many a typhoon.

• ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
  typhoon != tornado. I am sure they have something in mind, though. Japan is really good at designing skyscrapers that handle earthquakes. But whenever I see one of these skyscrapers, I wonder if Freud had a point...
  • beej71 3y ago
    Sometimes a skyscraper with balls is just a skyscraper with balls.
• hwbehrens 3y ago
  Just as a frame of reference, the most severe typhoon to directly hit Taipei seems to be Typhoon Morakot, which recorded wind speeds of 150 km/h (90 mph). The most severe tornado to hit Oklahoma seems to be from 1999, in which wind reached 484 km/h (301 mph).
  • pie420 3y ago
    another important point, typhoons are very big, so wind blows against a building in one direction. Tornadoes are very small, and would push on a skyscraper in multiple directions in the rare event that it hits a skyscraper and doesnt immediately dissolve due to lack of airflow. Airflow from multiple directions would mostly cancel out.