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http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v315/dukeofhazza...
view from my old apartment, see if you can guess where it is, clue at the end of the video!![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
view from my old apartment, see if you can guess where it is, clue at the end of the video!
![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
waffles said:
King Herald said:
Doh! How could I miss that one??? ![rofl](/inc/images/rofl.gif)
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I might try it next time I'm home, and have a full bladder. It'll take some serious pressure I reckon.
I think your original idea is the way to go, half a dozen beers and from the roof. ![rofl](/inc/images/rofl.gif)
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I might try it next time I'm home, and have a full bladder. It'll take some serious pressure I reckon.
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This is the view from the balcony of our apartment in Ames, Iowa, late one Saturday afternoon when we lived there in October 2005.
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/WYko0kHO.jpg)
We, erm, went down to the shelter pretty soon after that when it started heading closer our way.
This is what it did to Woodward, which was nearby - killed two people![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/S9FE0A7K.jpg)
Though we now have a nice view out over a valley in North Oxfordshire, we don't get too many tornadoes there.
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/WYko0kHO.jpg)
We, erm, went down to the shelter pretty soon after that when it started heading closer our way.
This is what it did to Woodward, which was nearby - killed two people
![frown](/inc/images/frown.gif)
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/S9FE0A7K.jpg)
Though we now have a nice view out over a valley in North Oxfordshire, we don't get too many tornadoes there.
Edited by Highway Star on Tuesday 16th October 14:27
TobyLaRohne said:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v315/dukeofhazza...
view from my old apartment, see if you can guess where it is, clue at the end of the video!![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
camelot?view from my old apartment, see if you can guess where it is, clue at the end of the video!
![biggrin](/inc/images/biggrin.gif)
King Herald said:
Nice/scary picture there Mr Star, but I've never understood why the people in Tornado Alley build lightweight stick homes, from 2 x 4 and drywall. ![confused](/inc/images/confused.gif)
If it were me I'd build just like we did in our current house: solid concrete and steel, walls, floors, ceilings.
I guess because a tornado would rip through pretty much anything anyway and getting hit by flying flimsy stuff is going to hurt less/do less damage than flying concrete?![confused](/inc/images/confused.gif)
If it were me I'd build just like we did in our current house: solid concrete and steel, walls, floors, ceilings.
Highway Star said:
I guess because a tornado would rip through pretty much anything anyway and getting hit by flying flimsy stuff is going to hurt less/do less damage than flying concrete?
Surely it is possible to build a house structure that 150mph winds won't tear apart? When I see the sheer tonnage of concrete and steel in our maison I find it hard to believe a wind could knock it down. Unless said wind was carrying the detritus and debris of a hundred stick houses, of course.....
![scratchchin](/inc/images/scratchchin.gif)
King Herald said:
Highway Star said:
I guess because a tornado would rip through pretty much anything anyway and getting hit by flying flimsy stuff is going to hurt less/do less damage than flying concrete?
Surely it is possible to build a house structure that 150mph winds won't tear apart? When I see the sheer tonnage of concrete and steel in our maison I find it hard to believe a wind could knock it down. Unless said wind was carrying the detritus and debris of a hundred stick houses, of course.....
![scratchchin](/inc/images/scratchchin.gif)
I guess the lesson of The Three Little Pigs isn't heeded much over there.
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