I grew up in tornado alley and saw my fair share of tornadoes. None of the houses were built to withstand them. Now I live on the gulf coast in a gold fortified home. We've had a couple of hurricanes but our house has been fine so far.

Here in New England, a tornado was such a rare event that if we had one, it was huge news for months. Now, we are getting several every year, especially Massachusetts and Connecticut where it is more flat, and where the Connecticut River valley seems to funnel winds. In my hometown just north of New Haven, we have had 3 in the last few years, one caused huge damage in one part of town. I never thought, growing up 50 years ago, that we would actually have tornadoes in New England. We're supposed to get hurricanes, and even then, rarely. It feels like something has changed.

Thanks for producing and posting this informative video.

This video peaked my interest because my city usually only have approximately 1 EF0 tornado every 5 years. However, starting from 2018, the tornadoes have become more destructive and frequent. Now, we expect the get 1 tornado every year so everytime there's a severe thunderstorm, we always get a EAS of a potential tornado just in case.

I wonder if the decrease in tornados west of the Mississippi has anything to do with the drought in the South West. Wind is known to more erratic around bodies of water. and the South East has been more prone to stronger hurricanes, flooding and rainfall.

They are not more destructive than ever. There is just more built area than before!

Nashvilles was terrifying. Lost neighbors, lost my entire neighborhood…

Why do Americans build their homes with wood? Bearing in mind that they have issues with tornadoes and wildfires, one would think that they’d want to steer clear of wooden structures

I was in nashville for those tornadoes. That was the craziest thing I have ever seen

Normalize the volume of the different speakers and clips to the same level

1:14.... im SO SO SO SO GLAD THAT HE TOLD THE TRUTH...MORE PPL IN THE WAY OF THE DISASTER

We build stick frame houses and then have to beef them up to withstand natural disasters (such as tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and fires). Alternatively we could build buildings out of modern materials that are fire resistant, water resistant, wind resistant, and termite resistant. Oh yeah, thats right, its expensive. Our economic model makes it difficult to implement technically viable solutions, leaving people dead or without shelter. Lovely system we've got here.

Simple: Population density is at an all time high. The cities have a lot of costly stuff to tear up.

I was in Joplin immediately following the tornado and the devastation was second to none.

Just a little minor detail that was mentioned but overlooked. Joplin $1 billion then is $3 billion today. So $1 billion today is $333 million then

Just a dumb guess? Climate change? Back in the 80's we hardly had 100°F days. Maybe 1 or three during the Summer. Now almost all summer days are that and way more. And a hurricane in L.A. too.

Being in an ef5 is scary. Rode out greensburgs in a truck

I live in an area with tornado risk. Also some wild fire risk. We are looking to build on some acreage. I'm building an ICF house. I might do a concrete roof also, we'll see. Nothing like the security of living in what is essentially a reinforced concrete bunker.

Buildings in the US are really flimsy. If you fart too hard, they will fall apart. The US even allow wooden buildings in areas that see wildfires every few years.

Meteorologist here. 5:30 false. We would not say tornado alley is everywhere lol. We would say the center of the country-en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley . Yes, this will expand (which is what he is getting at) but the entire point of saying “alley” is an area of where there generally is a higher concentration of tornadoes based on historical data-not just a few years. They’re always seems to be money for war, but no money for science-I find that interesting. We could solve many scientific problems & by fixing that & having more scientific positions.

and this is why ive dedicated my life to tornado research

And there's been way more tornados in New Jersey than ever before. There would be a funnel cloud here a tornado would touch ground once every like 10 years. Now it's like 2-4 per year

Build cheap, build twice

Now you should understand why America is great.

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Better go for Subsurface Bore Tunnel Traffic in Tornado Alleys.

Why is it more? Because more people buying more home in the places where Tornadoes spawn.. hence more destruction..

Does anyone remember the "super outbreak" in 1974 that killed 319 people? They should have strengthened building codes after that gigantic outbreak.

Hint. It’s because the targets are getting larger with the population explosions happening.

It's not THAT hard to build homes to withstand the environment they are built in, but our building standards are designed to make money for corporations. They are not designed to last.

It is MASSIVELY cheaper to rebuild the very FEW houses that are destroyed by tornadoes than to build ALL new homes more expensively that it could stop only lower winds.

Tornado damage in the 1600’s was very minimal. Same for hurricanes. Go figure.

Duh, homes, cars etc. Are much, much more expensive than they were 20 years ago. Towns and cities are rapidly expanding as well.

I bet if all the buildings and people where placed outside of tornado alley, there wouldn’t be any damage or deaths. What is there to damage if there’s nothing in a tornado’s path.

Makes sense, if at least EF1 and EF2 can be survived by most buildings... that helps. But yes what is up with the insane building codes. I guess Americans have red tape but building better might help?

MOST rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them...,

Than ever?

You wana know a official channel on cars in the USA

There are more houses in more places that, thanks to insane inflation, continue to cost more each year.

Because more people have built infrastructure and live in tornado alley.

Humans: I love my meat, I’ll never change!

Good video with solid reasoning to increase the resilience of homes against Tornados. Granted even steel structures will be knocked down with an EF5 Tornado, but it can be reshaped so it isn't a giant sail. Getting tired of the obligatory Climate Change hysteria. It costs more because the costs of building have risen, and the area is more population dense. I am more interested in the survival rate. People should build their homes with the potential environmental hazards in mind.

As someone from outside the usa who lives in Europe we have very strict rules on building codes why are all your houses built out of wood it has to be because of its low cost over stone and brick which is standard in most of Europe

So if tornados get weaker does that mean global warming is over? Or is this a biased one sided argument?

Are they teaching this to kids

I love it how people claim that building more resilient home's would make it too expensive but you look at the type of houses that are getting built, they are so complicated, this significantly adds to labour costs, a simple rectangular floor plan with gable roof would significantly reduce costs meaning you could build in that safe room or build that basement or ground floor with concrete.

Thanks China🇨🇳 for continued - building more and more *coal-fired power plants,* and - burning more and more *fossil fuel.*

Who give these numbers ask these KZfaqrs

Bring back the bison. End Central banking.

GLOBEL WARMING nuff said

Americans build their homes out of wooden sticks, they never heard of 3 little pigs?

What

The planet believes in reciprocity. A century of industrial pollution has a price.

No a wife isn't home minister. A man in cabinet of minster in the American parliament must be HM meaning home minister

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who the hell would want to live in a flat, boring tornado prone area?

I get that tornadoes are happening more often, in more populated places. But also, its always going to be costing more, INFLATION! Replacing a house now costs way more than 20 years ago. Amount of damage could be a better metric than the cost of damage. Its like movies that keep having higher revenue to silly amounts. That's great, but tell me the number of tickets sold instead of the cost.

Monolithic Dome Homes

Don't rage wars anymore. There's karma built on earth. Back in ancient time, after kings invaded other countries, they experienced floods moonsoon and severe weather.

3:54 notice green trash bag. Truly good commercial for manufactures: our bags kling to bin’s so hard even tornado didn’t manage to take it

Yes, also natural disasters are not correlated to climate change, and are actually decreasing.

Standing seam metal roofs should be mainstream instead of asphalt roofs. And they should put thin film solar on there

You can't look at a local level scale when you're talking about something on a big scale such as weather. Leading causes into why "tornados are getting more destructive" is we are building more and more as more people move into the country and more people move into Dixie and Tornado alley (Texas for en example) There were terrible tornados decades ago, they're just wasn't much infrastructure for them to hit. The other factor is main stream media. These things happened a long time ago, it would only spread to local newspapers and only the most major ones would make it out of state. We also have better technology to detect tornados and now opposed to 20 years ago we have a better survey system. The local NWS are required to go out and assess any damage that is likely to be a tornado caused. They don't put it on record if it didn't affect any structures but one again... there are more structures.

Developers fight building codes tooth and nail, because every nail cost money.

Sometimes money and cost wins over common sense! Just like heath care, we let insurance companies win over lives.

Would have been nice to mention the loss of life involved. Do the dollar figures take into account the loss of human life in some way, if so how? I know y'all worship money but damn.

Why weep for people who were; "in the way???" Sounds like the next bonfire to relight the climate change argument!!!

Why americans people doesn't build more solid houses , like brick house ? Somebody can explain me?

Use concrete foundation instead not some wood.

The average annual temperature has barely changed since record keeping started in 1875. I would, in fact, argue the average temps were higher prior to the 1900s. Don't swallow the climate change hook. You'll just end up in someone's skillet.

Next year will be hotter. More tornadoes and hurricanes. You will live to see the rapid change of the entire world

Pretty wild, they did this whole video without talking about climate change.

Cause we fart too much

Should build 2 storey single family home, one storey below ground level and one above. When tornado strike, at least half of house undamaged.

Easy guest, global warming

lt sucks, but it's sad this affects a deal of people easily led into thinking is just God or earth. Then they continue on pumping out more kids and voting for senator @zhats

I think they should stop building houses from paper, instead of 600m2 paper house, just make 150m2 proper house

Where do people go to survive these?

2:46, the graph clearly shows hurricane causing more damage than tornadoes. Why are we fixated on 7B when hurricane caused 33B in damages. I feel like there really isn't much you can do about tornadoes but we can do more to lessen the damage caused by hurricane. Edit: grammar

'Food for thought' - don't lose track of where these things come from. Who is sending them. Why He is sending them. Keep that on your mind, and get right.

Just don't build houses out of cardboard

Yes, we know how to build resilient structures. The problem is affordability. Not everyone can afford to buy a nice single-family suburban home with a garage. So to speak of replacing the garage door with a wind-resistant door is already knocking a lot of people out of the running. People who live in apartments. In mobile home parks. But we are left out of the equation. It's as if those people who live in substandard housing, well, it sucks to be you, but that's your fault for not making enough money to buy a better house. And if you live in a mobile home park, boy oh boy are you ever looked down upon. People who are relatively well off don't know what it is like to walk in the shoes of someone who is struggling just to keep a roof (any roof) over their head. This is a problem I think will get worse. Hate to say it but Mother Nature sure seems to have it out for poor folks. Maybe Her way of thinning the ranks?

Because of sin everything is getinh worse

they should redesign their roof.. much better make it flat solid cement.. redesign ventelation for winter etc..

I liked the video it was interesting. Let's get some more video game videos

10:38 Where's the money for Hurricane Ian Flooding Victims?

It's been more than a decade since the last EF5 so I would say no, they are not getting more destructive.

There is something about the voice of the reporter that do not feels right, it is so nice and cute but at the same time i can not disconnect it from the fact that the video is about a serious matter, people that dies and some other that loose everything. Honestly something seems out of place, for me.

Fake news.

Got a tornado bothering you in Texas. You reach out to me. I'll show it who's boss & chase it out of town.

Mini cooper never sold cars in the US

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We should move underground, basement living. That's the future.

Why aren't the insurance companies making it cheaper for people to build better? The insurance companies already implement costs back to the government and constantly challenge the government on codes and they (insurance companies) are the ones who dictate the codes. It would be very simple for them to give "heavy discounts" to people who build to "their code (insurance companies code) or better". And watching this video, it seems to implicate that older homes are more likely to be damaged by a tornado. That's a split truth, older homes are often crowded by newer homes that have complicated roof designs (causes wind turbulence) and choke out the trees (or remove them all together) which provides soil stability and structural stability. This video shows nothing more than a one sided, simplistic view into something that is a very big issue. Also, insurance companies didn't really exist more than 100years ago (except to an elite portion of people).

Stop building toy houses, problem solved...

I live in North Africa where there is little rain, and for me, I see these storms as a good omen.

One group of people who are not climate denialist: anyone who works in insurance for a living.

You guys familiar with concrete houses? You're already aware of how destructive tornadoes can be, why build paper houses?

why? shifting to investing in advanced technology worth billions of dollars

let me guess: climate change 😂