Tornado!: Only One House Will Survive...

ISBN-13: 9781477601228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str.

Robert Bissett

Opis

After a horrific tornado destroys a town, one family vows to rebuild far better than before. No more will they gamble with their lives. The house they design and build just may be close to tornado proof, like a FEMA storm shelter. It will be tested to the extreme two years to the day after the tornado that took their old house. A techno-thriller that employs the latest and best materials and systems available now in a house that can actually be built today. Everyone knows there is little or nothing that can be done to resist the awesome power of a tornado. You read it in the paper, see it on TV and movies and now on the internet. We are powerless when it comes to nature's most feared weather event. Or are we? Even if you did build a tornado proof house it would either be underground or look like a windowless bunker. Or would It? Tornado follows one family as they learn the truth about tornado resistant construction. Researching the currently available wall systems, roof assemblies, windows and doors they design a house that looks very normal, but can withstand a direct hit from an EF-5 tornado. Tornado is full of valuable information about specific products and methods for anyone living in tornado country with plans to build. It is painfully obvious that no amount of straps and anchors can make a wood frame house withstand more than 150 mph winds. It is time to catchup with the rest of the world. Reinforced concrete must become the norm. It is past time to move beyond nineteenth century death traps. Bissett shows the way by weaving real-world nuts and bolts technology into an epic tale about the forces of nature and the resilience of the human spirit.