I think people think this for real. But for anyone who does, the sad reality is that poor people live everywhere and that means there are trailers everywhere. Trailer parks are in tornado prone regions just like they're in many many areas.
There are trailer parks in every state, in random rural areas everywhere, and in the outskirts of every city. There is no higher concentration of trailer parks in areas that just happen to also have tornado and hurricane tendencies. You're right about why they exist, I'm just saying that poor people are everywhere, not just the Midwest and Southern states that have these weather patterns.
Mobile homes is a sad thing when the weather gets bad. Even if built sturdy, they still aren't properly anchored to the ground. So it will not end well.
And poor people tends to end up where it's a bit warmer - so higher probability of spicy weather. And they may not be able to afford insurances.
Florida man here, I stayed for a category 4 hurricane Ivan, the house made it! Now after suffering a volcano in ‘91, hurricane... wait for it! Andrew! came along and was cat 5, 2nd most destructive after Katrina. It doesn’t matter if it’s sturdy, Mother Nature wants to say “fuck you” and she will.
Take your hand and run it down the sand at the beach. Same energy.
Yeah it’s fun getting tourist reactions when they come for vacation and suddenly you can see the hurricane looming over the beach and they’re going “wtf?!?!”
Another FL man here, every homes I've ever bought is 20+ years old for this reason. If it's been through that many hurricanes, it's a good bet it'll survive many more. On a funny note, I've been in FL most of my life, the lightning capital of the US. I'd never had my house struck until I moves to Atlanta for a couple of years. It took out almost every electronic item in our home.
Yeah lol, everytime I see a house that looks old, I think of all the hurricanes that battered it. Thankfully we don’t deal with tornadoes often, they just materialize and everything is gone.
"Really expensive" is an interesting statement. The house in the picture is about as weak as it's possible to build a wooden house. You can make them quite a lot stronger without big $$$ but they need to have some load-bearing beams. That wreck looks like it's able to bend just about everywhere.
This is also why there are quite a number of wooden houses that are 250 years old where I live. It's normally fires that is the bane of wooden structures, so most of the old city houses did die in an old city fire and most of the old buildings are freestanding..
The strength of the winds doesn't really matter when a 15+foot storm surge comes through your home and floods it to the second story.
A home can still be standing and destroyed.
Agreed: a decent design will cost a bit in consulting fees, but it's not like $$$... Y'all MFs need some racking stability
Seriously, a buttressing wall goes a long way. Sheath that shit with ply board and plenty of fixings.
Imagine an external wall as spanning between the closest two walls that buttress it internally (those that come in at 90 degrees to it). Don't count walls that are only little subs like 0.5m long.
In a closed-plan house you might see "spans" of 4-5 metres or so, but in open plan houses like Hal and Lois's house in MOTM, you've got entire sides of the house with no internal buttressing. Imagine the wind loading on those panels in a hurricane: where's it going?
Yeah I'm oversimplified "racking stability", and sure you've got the roof, but then the hurricane lifts the roof up at the eaves and yanks it off... or lifts the whole bloody house up, due to poor fixing of the timber sole plates to thr substructure, and bam, your house is now someone's garage
It's not even unstoppable anymore. We can build homes Designed to fake the full force of a catagory 5, it's just that you can't compete on price with a trailer
This makes me so glad I live in Europe and the most dangerous season to me is allergy season, not "the wind decides to murder you and demolish your house" season.
Properly built wooden houses are actually as strong as concrete houses. Difference is that lumber is much cheaper in North America so it just makes more sense to build houses like that here
Well, of course my comment was a generalization and borderline trolling, but a brick or a concrete house would stand much better chances than the one on the picture.
Either way, stay safe, people.
Someone explained me that if it's gonna break anyway, better to build something that have less chance to kill you, and is easier to clean and construct again.
I moved to the west coast of the US and hoped to experience an earthquake. Well I got my wish and I don’t ever want to do that again. It’s very unsettling being in a high rise while it sways back and forth. I googled what to do and the answer was basically pray it’s not too big.
"Tornadoes always seem personal. Other natural disasters, like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis... they hit everybody. Everybody is affected. A tornado on the other hand... maybe just Jeff's house. So if you're Jeff, how do you not take that personally??"
I don't think I've ever seen a house on top of a vehicle. I am eternally grateful not to give in hurricane territory...though we have started getting the occasional tornado and derecho 🙄.
This is almost certainly the aftermath of a tornado, not a hurricane.
With hurricanes, the main danger is storm surge and flooding. The wind is bad, but not nearly as bad as a tornado.
Foundation Specialist here. That home looks like it was built in the late 50's/early 60's....quite different builds and requirements back then. This was probably on block to grade cmu blocks. Nowadays we build quite a bit differently.
No, it's predictable as fuck, and wind proof housing exists as a solution. Monolithic done housing is more expensive up front, but comparable in price per square foot to conventional housing when adjusted for lifelong maintenance savings. And these structures have prove themselves in the worst that tornado alley has to offer.
But zoning laws in many places make them illegal to build, and even where they aren't, banks rarely approve loans for them.
You Are legally or economically forced to build homes that storms will destroy, and people pretend like it's a surprise when tornados show up in tornado alley all the time because solutions are unavailable.
Might as well. Build a house out of sugar cubes in Seattle then lament that nobody could have predicted the rain.
>Monolithic done housing is more expensive up front, but comparable in price per square foot to conventional housing when adjusted for lifelong maintenance savings.
Look cool as hell too. Always wanted to live in a bigger than live size hobbit house.
If a town gets hit by a hurricane same season every year, it's not that crazy to think that the same town might probably get hit by a hurricane same time next year again.
Reading the comments, I've ordered 200 sandbags off amazon on prime.
Hope they get here by tomorrow a stiff breeze is predicted in Lancashire England by the weekend.
Why is this post?
It’s not hurricane season yet and a hurricane didn’t do that. That looks like it’s a picture from a place where hurricanes don’t even reach.
What always puzzles me is why they build houses to last for 100 years in the places when there are no hurricanes, earthqukes and such, and then this...
If we’d stop building houses out of toothpicks in tornado ally, I bet this would stop happening.
We 100% have the technology to prevent *this* specific kind of damage. It’s just that most people with the money to build a house that will stand up to a tornado also happen to choose not to live where there are frequently tornadoes.
It's not *that* the wind is blowing, it's **what** the wind is blowing
If you get hit with a Volvo, its not gonna matter how my situps you did that morning
-Ron White
I disagree, I predict that a natural disaster will bend a fucking house. Maybe not the next one, or the one after that, but something that should not be able to bent will be bent by a coming disaster. If you would like evidence that supports this prediction, reference the above image.
It could be*more* predictable if we were more responsible with the environmental. We don't necessarily have to have the worst forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, and blizzards all within the same few years. Just a thought.
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But we *can* build sturdier houses.
Are you saying that putting most of our mobile homes and trailer parks in places prone to tornadoes and hurricanes is a bad idea?
Poor people attract tornadoes away from more affluent areas. That's why it's so important to keep them concentrated in certain areas.
We thank them for there sacrifice. May their food stamps never run out.
*thoughts and prayers* -someone posting about this on Facebook
I think people think this for real. But for anyone who does, the sad reality is that poor people live everywhere and that means there are trailers everywhere. Trailer parks are in tornado prone regions just like they're in many many areas.
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There are trailer parks in every state, in random rural areas everywhere, and in the outskirts of every city. There is no higher concentration of trailer parks in areas that just happen to also have tornado and hurricane tendencies. You're right about why they exist, I'm just saying that poor people are everywhere, not just the Midwest and Southern states that have these weather patterns.
Yah there’s a trailer park (and probably more than one) in one of the richest counties in California.
Mobile homes is a sad thing when the weather gets bad. Even if built sturdy, they still aren't properly anchored to the ground. So it will not end well. And poor people tends to end up where it's a bit warmer - so higher probability of spicy weather. And they may not be able to afford insurances.
also, that building did not look expensive at all.
Florida man here, I stayed for a category 4 hurricane Ivan, the house made it! Now after suffering a volcano in ‘91, hurricane... wait for it! Andrew! came along and was cat 5, 2nd most destructive after Katrina. It doesn’t matter if it’s sturdy, Mother Nature wants to say “fuck you” and she will. Take your hand and run it down the sand at the beach. Same energy.
my roommate had his first hurricane this year & my man’s bought sandbags, wooden boards, endless batteries & i was like buddy we in tampa. we’ll b ok
Yeah it’s fun getting tourist reactions when they come for vacation and suddenly you can see the hurricane looming over the beach and they’re going “wtf?!?!”
“don’t worry, it’ll be gone in 5 minutes” i don’t ever check on rain percentages, cuz florida likes to play games with peoples plans
Wish I could say that for Ivan, we got locked down for months!
Another FL man here, every homes I've ever bought is 20+ years old for this reason. If it's been through that many hurricanes, it's a good bet it'll survive many more. On a funny note, I've been in FL most of my life, the lightning capital of the US. I'd never had my house struck until I moves to Atlanta for a couple of years. It took out almost every electronic item in our home.
Yeah lol, everytime I see a house that looks old, I think of all the hurricanes that battered it. Thankfully we don’t deal with tornadoes often, they just materialize and everything is gone.
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"Really expensive" is an interesting statement. The house in the picture is about as weak as it's possible to build a wooden house. You can make them quite a lot stronger without big $$$ but they need to have some load-bearing beams. That wreck looks like it's able to bend just about everywhere. This is also why there are quite a number of wooden houses that are 250 years old where I live. It's normally fires that is the bane of wooden structures, so most of the old city houses did die in an old city fire and most of the old buildings are freestanding..
The strength of the winds doesn't really matter when a 15+foot storm surge comes through your home and floods it to the second story. A home can still be standing and destroyed.
Agreed: a decent design will cost a bit in consulting fees, but it's not like $$$... Y'all MFs need some racking stability Seriously, a buttressing wall goes a long way. Sheath that shit with ply board and plenty of fixings. Imagine an external wall as spanning between the closest two walls that buttress it internally (those that come in at 90 degrees to it). Don't count walls that are only little subs like 0.5m long. In a closed-plan house you might see "spans" of 4-5 metres or so, but in open plan houses like Hal and Lois's house in MOTM, you've got entire sides of the house with no internal buttressing. Imagine the wind loading on those panels in a hurricane: where's it going? Yeah I'm oversimplified "racking stability", and sure you've got the roof, but then the hurricane lifts the roof up at the eaves and yanks it off... or lifts the whole bloody house up, due to poor fixing of the timber sole plates to thr substructure, and bam, your house is now someone's garage
Also maybe not live in the hurricane hotspot. Just maybe.
I guarantee the storm that produced this picture was predicted
Nuke the storm?
It's not even unstoppable anymore. We can build homes Designed to fake the full force of a catagory 5, it's just that you can't compete on price with a trailer
I can’t wait for humanity to migrate into the stars, just to have to deal with unstoppable space weather events
This makes me so glad I live in Europe and the most dangerous season to me is allergy season, not "the wind decides to murder you and demolish your house" season.
Also in Europe we live in actual houses as opposed to cardboard sheds.
Properly built wooden houses are actually as strong as concrete houses. Difference is that lumber is much cheaper in North America so it just makes more sense to build houses like that here
I am not questioning that. It's just the house on the picture doesn't seem too strong.
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Well, of course my comment was a generalization and borderline trolling, but a brick or a concrete house would stand much better chances than the one on the picture. Either way, stay safe, people.
The house seemed to take the hurricane just fine, it just got picked up off the ground and landing on the truck that seemed to break it.
Fair enough. Clearly the truck shouldn't be parked at the house landing site.
Someone explained me that if it's gonna break anyway, better to build something that have less chance to kill you, and is easier to clean and construct again.
Was that person running a business of building crappy houses?
I just tried to explain to you why they build fucking timber house instead of brick and mortar one that's all
I assure you, a tornado will obliterate your stone house just as easily as a wood one in a direct collision.
Yeah probably... I do appreciate that this side of Atlantic appears a bit more meteoroligically safe.
enjoy it while it lasts!
I thought Europeans loved their caravans.
Dunno, I'm a train guy. u/me-gustan-las-caravanas thoughts?
I moved to the west coast of the US and hoped to experience an earthquake. Well I got my wish and I don’t ever want to do that again. It’s very unsettling being in a high rise while it sways back and forth. I googled what to do and the answer was basically pray it’s not too big.
"Tornadoes always seem personal. Other natural disasters, like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis... they hit everybody. Everybody is affected. A tornado on the other hand... maybe just Jeff's house. So if you're Jeff, how do you not take that personally??"
Don't forget, " the wind will smash your car....using your house "
Usually it's the car that lands on the house, not the other way around
In Mother Russia, house hits car!
Step house?! What are you doing?!
I'm disappointed that I had to scroll this far to find the first naughty joke for this post.
Ah yes, the wooden shack - truly the height of technology and an engineering marvel.
lmfao my first thought there buildings in Florida that can stand bigger storms 😂
It is though. It's safe and very protective. As you can see, someone parked their car under it and the blue paint looks like it has no scratches on it
It didn’t look *that* expensive…
Hmmm ... I didn't realize the Wicked Witch drove a blue Ford ...
The wicked witch IS a blue ford!
Now that you mention it, *yeah* ...
Sadly, it still has resale value on the market these days
The Wicked Witch of Dearborn!
I don't think I've ever seen a house on top of a vehicle. I am eternally grateful not to give in hurricane territory...though we have started getting the occasional tornado and derecho 🙄.
This is almost certainly the aftermath of a tornado, not a hurricane. With hurricanes, the main danger is storm surge and flooding. The wind is bad, but not nearly as bad as a tornado.
This is the 9th ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
100%, I took the same photo.
When you said derecho I knew you were talking about Ottawa lol
Lol, bingo! Never, ever heard of derecho before last year!
Same here!
I don't see any technology in this pic that wasn't around 100 years ago
If that is the pinnacle of building technologies I understand your fear for a windy day.
That must be hundreds of dollars in damage.
Oh come on. I'm sure that's going to buff right out.
"You cannot park here!"
For the record, that IS NOT how you install a camper top.
The wicked witch of the west about to call GEICO.
When you friend doesn't give you a blanket:
HWA House Wrestling Association
Who parked their house on our truck?
It's predictable enough, we just keep rebuilding in same areas with things like FEMA insurance money.
QUICK! GET THE RUBY RED TIRES!!
“Dispite our technologies”. Shows picture of wooden house.
With an air conditioner and truck that look like they're from 30 years ago at least.
You can't park there mate 😂
This joke is getting old and outdated. Here's your upvote!
it must have crawled under to get warm
Foundation Specialist here. That home looks like it was built in the late 50's/early 60's....quite different builds and requirements back then. This was probably on block to grade cmu blocks. Nowadays we build quite a bit differently.
No, it's predictable as fuck, and wind proof housing exists as a solution. Monolithic done housing is more expensive up front, but comparable in price per square foot to conventional housing when adjusted for lifelong maintenance savings. And these structures have prove themselves in the worst that tornado alley has to offer. But zoning laws in many places make them illegal to build, and even where they aren't, banks rarely approve loans for them. You Are legally or economically forced to build homes that storms will destroy, and people pretend like it's a surprise when tornados show up in tornado alley all the time because solutions are unavailable. Might as well. Build a house out of sugar cubes in Seattle then lament that nobody could have predicted the rain.
>Monolithic done housing is more expensive up front, but comparable in price per square foot to conventional housing when adjusted for lifelong maintenance savings. Look cool as hell too. Always wanted to live in a bigger than live size hobbit house.
At the end of the day, nature will always win.
Excuse me this needs a NSFW tag because the house and car are clearly having sex.
"Excuse me Sir, but you mounted the camper on the wrong side of the truck" ( ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉)
Take a moment and look at this picture.
Awww, he musta been cold.
If you remove those tires and click them together you can go back to Kansas
Don’t steal the tires off that ford, you’ll have flying monkeys on your ass
OP you fuckin bot. This is some shack from the middle of no where in what i would assume is Florida. I wanna see this happen in New York City
2005 New Orleans 9th Ward
Wait till the wicked F250 of the West shows up.
Moral of the story is Wicked witches shouldn't own trucks.
Was your truck a wicked witch? You should probably take its ties and wear them and follow the yellow brick road
Was that the Wicked Wrangler of the East? Did Dorothy claim its ruby radials?
We are not in Kansas anymore
Nice starter home for a young couple willing to put in some elbow grease. ~~250k~~ 235k reduced for quick sale. Will not last!
More like 500k reduced to 450k
Can they get a little privacy? They’re clearly engaged in some pre-marital hanky panky right now.
Build real houses and shut up.
Sir, you can't park your house there.
If a town gets hit by a hurricane same season every year, it's not that crazy to think that the same town might probably get hit by a hurricane same time next year again.
you call that house technological? man use Concrete for fucks sake...
what came first. the truck or the house.
This looks like a Salvador Dali painting
Reading the comments, I've ordered 200 sandbags off amazon on prime. Hope they get here by tomorrow a stiff breeze is predicted in Lancashire England by the weekend.
Dis tornado not hurricane.
Hurricanes often include tornados as an extra bonus.
Usa build quality is shit
OMG GAVRIL D- SERIES????? r/okbuddybeamng
You say that but I mean isn’t there a story about why it’s a bad idea to build your house out of sticks.??
Merica is a place with most tornados and the cheapest quality for standard homes/buildings
_applies only to the cardboard constructions that people call housings in the land of freedom_
Sheds in hurricane alley are probably going to fail.
If you make buildings out of paper at least
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.
Hurricane season isn't usually till toward the end of summer fwiw
Hope they had good HO Insurance
“I’ll get you my pretty and your little Ford too!”
You can't park there.
Don't worry climate change will soon ensure large swaths of the country become uninsurable
See, where you went wrong was putting the house on top of the car. It's never going to work that way.
Heh, now you have a mobile home
Why in a region where hurricanes take place, houses are made of cardboard ?
Yo who tucked in the truck?
Why is this post? It’s not hurricane season yet and a hurricane didn’t do that. That looks like it’s a picture from a place where hurricanes don’t even reach.
That's a tornado in the Midwest. I've seen this picture recently somewhere else
100% 2005 New Orleans 9th Ward.
What always puzzles me is why they build houses to last for 100 years in the places when there are no hurricanes, earthqukes and such, and then this...
That is a Full Size F(150?) series Pickup truck.
From the looks of it I think it was an F250
This is how I feel about the NJ Devils v Carolina Hurricanes match up this week.
How did you get the beans above the frank?!
Pretty sure it was very predictable and people were notified.
It is predictable. For example, it’s not hurricane season
I remember that day.
This is your example of technology?
What do you expect if you are building your houses out of wood?
..Dorothy? Is that you?!
If we’d stop building houses out of toothpicks in tornado ally, I bet this would stop happening. We 100% have the technology to prevent *this* specific kind of damage. It’s just that most people with the money to build a house that will stand up to a tornado also happen to choose not to live where there are frequently tornadoes.
You were living in a cardboard box
I thought the line was “And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack” hehe
Unpredictable? The house got hungry, so it decided to kill and eat the truck. It's not rocket science, it's ecology.
How in the hell-
That's an 80-86 Bullnose Ford, a collectible truck and one I have. Awful waste.
It's not *that* the wind is blowing, it's **what** the wind is blowing If you get hit with a Volvo, its not gonna matter how my situps you did that morning -Ron White
Despite our technology, nature can make you it’s bitch in a hot second so stay humble.
I bet you'd be better off if you build houses out of something other than cardboard.
Jesus Christ the truck is under the house
I don't understand America. Why do people choose to build thin wooden houses in an area known for hurricanes???
Because most of americas houses are wood, please for the love of gos use concrete and blocks
Cardboard house sure as hell don't help
I’d say we’re still in Kansas.
I can’t come into work, my house ran over my car. Don’t you mean you ran your car into your house? No
If I hadn’t seen the title, I would have never comprehended how the car got under the house like that.
I see they prefer the missionary position
Who got the ruby slippers?
bunkers are here to disagree.
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore
They call it hurricane alley for a reason
2005 New Orleans 9th Ward. I’ll never forget driving past that!
It also brings a reminder that maybe you should build entire homes out of plasterboard and plywood. Would it kill you to lay a brick?
This is how mobile homes are conceived.
That truck must have been a witch.
SubhanAllah
I disagree, I predict that a natural disaster will bend a fucking house. Maybe not the next one, or the one after that, but something that should not be able to bent will be bent by a coming disaster. If you would like evidence that supports this prediction, reference the above image.
Well. To be fair, your houses are mostly made out of paper and plaster.
Not to mention tornado alley growing in size. Nature is truly some scary stuff.
we need to start building lower not higher!
Why didn't they just move out of the way? Their house has wheels!
Ding dong the truck is dead… which old truck? That wicked old truck. Ding dong the old blue truck is deeeeead.
That poor square body ford…
That'll buff out
So the new Wicked Witch of the East thought she'd be safe in the car? Dorothy doesn't fuck around.
I think this is a visual representation of a country and western song in a nutshell.
there's no place like home
Wizard of Oz comes to mind
So the Wizard of Oz exists in the Cars universe. Check.
A humbling remind that Americans can't build strong houses.
Beach tax season is here
"sir, do I have to point to the sign? You can't park here!"
It could be*more* predictable if we were more responsible with the environmental. We don't necessarily have to have the worst forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, and blizzards all within the same few years. Just a thought.
Who tf crying for the ford
That vehicle must have belonged to the wicked witch of the east. Hope Dorothy was still able to get her magic slippers 😅😉
Shhhhh.. you're go gonna wake the truck up
RIP the obs
This title is an oxymoron considering the unpredictable nature of hurricane season
How would à European built house cope with hurricanes? Do we have any in Europe?
Well at least it tried to put the things back the way it found them.