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Florida is a huge place. Hurricanes are enormous but the part that does serious damage is pretty small. Most Floridians have been through a hurricane. Few have
by wat10000 2y ago
Florida is a huge place. Hurricanes are enormous but the part that does serious damage is pretty small. Most Floridians have been through a hurricane. Few have had to rebuild after one. A major hurricane that hits the state is going to destroy some houses but not a particularly large fraction of all the houses in the state.
Similarly, tornado alley seems tremendously destructive, but the breadth of the destruction is small. The average interval between house-destroying tornadoes at any given point is hundreds if not thousands of years
- WalterBright 2y ago> The average interval between house-destroying tornadoes When I was little and lived in Kansas, tornadoes came through the town. We huddled down in the basement. Found out later that the tornado literally lifted up and hopped over the house. A giant tree next to the driveway fell down parallel to the house and a few feet away. A fair chunk of the town was flattened.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoA tornado of nearly any strength hitting a settlement is just utter devastation for anything above ground level. Glad yall had a place to go and for the Kokura luck to have your home spared. Any interested HNers should beware the tornado documentary YouTube rabbit hole ;)
- WalterBright 2y agoI didn't realize at the time how lucky we were.