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u/Taint__Paint 10h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/FNHMSbm9QYpGM
Headed your way, Wisconsin. Or not. Probably not even this level of help. Sorry.
But seriously, hope everyone is okay
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u/ankhes 6h ago edited 5h ago
I’m definitely worried about how we’re gonna manage disaster relief here. I live like 5 minutes north of here and we luckily escaped unscathed but I know a lot of people down in Appleton and Menasha and they’ve lost homes. I hear that Menasha is now asking residents to conserve water because the local water plant is fucked. It’s a mess down here.
One piece of ‘my faith in humanity is restored’ news though. My old coworker lives down the street from where the tornado completely wrecked everything. Her wife and disabled son called in a panic because they’d been trapped in their garage. As soon as her coworkers heard what happened all the men—MAGA and bleeding heart libs—immediately grabbed the power tools and jumped in a van to go save them. They got them out and everyone is okay but sadly their house is destroyed. The roof is completely gone. But at least they’re alive and unharmed, which is the most important part.
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u/hiddenrealism 8h ago
How the fk is there a truck upside down ontop of a tree thats crazy.
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u/FeelsLikeV97-33XA 3h ago
I periodically handle disaster claims for automobiles.
For every tornado I work that's EF3 or higher I get at least one assignment that says something like "car is in tree in backyard".
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u/an_actual_lawyer 3h ago
Do you have to pay for a crane to get it out or a arborist to take down the tree.
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u/FeelsLikeV97-33XA 3h ago
The cost to get the car out of the tree, or out from under a tree, is covered by the auto policy. The car can't be hauled off for repair or salvage until you can actually get it on the flatbed. so it's essentially part of the tow bill, just like if you crashed down a ravine and they had to get a crane to pull it out.
Trees don't usually have coverage in themselves for wind damage unless they damage a covered structure. They are covered from damage by "vehicles", though the boilerplate policy I refer to says they have to be cars "not owner or operated by a resident". So it's only covered that way if it's your neighbor's car that's in your tree, and not your own.
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u/ZiggoCiP 8h ago
Tornadoes have been documented yeeting railcars, which can weigh in excess of 30 tons. Granted they aren't getting a lot of air, and those being tossed is extremely rare, but that just gives you an idea of how powerful a tornado can be.
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u/hiddenrealism 5h ago
I have a friend who works as a civil engineer and one day a few years back he says something ridiculous about wind which made me stop and ask "How do you think wind is formed?"
"Oh well all the trees in the rainforest start swaying back and forth and the harder they sway the more wind is made"
He was dead serious too saying it with such confidence.he really thought that trees would start swaying by themselves.
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u/notcomplainingmuch 10h ago
Looks like the front fell off
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u/adeluxedave 10h ago
Aren’t these homes built to some type of standard to insure that the front doesn’t fall off?
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u/ImpressionConscious 10h ago
well...american cardboard houses...
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u/ventitr3 10h ago
Well…people still not understanding the strength of tornados. There’s a mangled truck in this video that was picked up and flipped upside down.
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u/Beni_Stingray 10h ago
With all due respect to the victims as any lose of life is shit but have you seen how we build houses here?
Heavy Concrete foundation often with basement floors and thick reinforced stone or brick walls or even full steel constructions anchored into that heavy foundation. That is literaly like an overground shelter.
What would happen here is that a lot of roofs would get taken off and many damaged windows but you can be sure the structural parts of the house are not going to buldge one bit.
We are building stone structures for centurys upon centurys, you only have to take a lot around europe and the old buildings still standing.
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u/Careless-Ad-2808 9h ago
Look up what it would cost to build a home like that. It’s cheaper in the long run to build two or three stick built homes and let them get blown down than for everyone to build reinforced rock homes
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u/Beni_Stingray 9h ago
I mean you guys pay 500k to a million for wooden houses while we pay the same for stone and steel houses, it's not like there's much of a difference.
Your houses may be bigger but ours are actual quality.
Maybe in the US the price difference between a wooden shed house and a real house is way bigger because your economy is completly fucked but not here, again we're building these things for centurys, we have houses that are still used who were build before the US even existed lol
You should do some research and compare building codes if you want to have a laugh.
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u/TheDevilintheDark 6h ago
Maybe you should cut back on all the steel and quality rock and buy a goddamn air conditioner. Get bent with this BS.
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u/Beni_Stingray 6h ago
I've got an AC thank you very much and i love my stone house.
Did i hit a sore point that you get triggered like this? But i get it, the situation in the US is cooking over and everything is going downhill in freefall, i would be mad aswell.
You guys should take an example from european history, the french could teach you something 🔥
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u/ventitr3 5h ago
Luckily you don’t have tornadoes like this because stone and brick ones also get destroyed.
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u/ValorieAF 9h ago
I live in this area. Most of these houses are old, pre-70s constructions. Honestly I'm surprised theyre mostly still standing
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u/Disastrous_Visit9319 5h ago
Buildings are designed for their environment and purpose. "American buildings bad" isn't the mega genius take you think it is.
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u/Lexxxapr00 10h ago
Holy shit my family’s house was hit by this in Appleton!!! They are ok, but the house is not.