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Date: March 25, 2021 04:13PM
Yeah, they are getting more frequent, widespread, and more destructive even.
Where I come from, in southern Mississippi, we NEVER used to see them. They were always north of us, in OK, MO, KS, IN, OH, TN, maybe No. Miss..., but never so far south.
Living there in the mid-20-teens, a few tore through North-Central Ms. (while we drove kids to school/ camp activities) doing their typical destruction... I thought those were close. Wshew!
Then, further south, just a few years later:
February 10th, 2013 (I believe), around 5pm, a terrible tornado barreled through a multi-county area (destroying high school play fields, a university campus, and over 600 homes, multiple businesses, and multiple churches, amongst other destruction), and was a close call for us. It took years, or more, for some to fully rebuild or recover.
January 21st, 2017 (I think), around 1pm, a mighty tornado ripped through a different part of town, destroying homes, another university, one of those same churches [that had just completed rebuilding] (it came from a different angle-direction), claiming lives, and causing quite a mess.
Last year - April 12th, 2020, Easter Sunday, around mid-day, a tornado tore though multiple states, from Texas, Louisianna, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and wherever else, and destroying hundreds of area homes, with some losing nearly everything, and some, not nearly so lucky, losing it all. Nearby: friends, teachers, relatives, neighbors... Pretty bad stuff.
Climate Change = greater and more destructive wind and rain (and other events like Earthquacks, Volcanos, etc.), tornados, and the like.
Early American home on the plains.
https://images.app.goo.gl/ccDxg42Wr35fRjYA7Living in certain regions of the country, Id consider Extra Strapping, a Storm Shelter, Basement, Sod Roof, Underground Options, Earth-Shelter, Mound Building, etc.
Does it make us wonder why Earlier Americans, especially in the mid-west-south built this way?
Midwest sod roof home-
https://images.app.goo.gl/bmZrK5sxNa9tfxBG9Look at the Mark Twain biography video. In it, going west, at horse refreshing stops, they came across people whom he'd never seen before, the first people he said he'd seen that had their yard on their roof.
Makes sense
Especially these days
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2021 04:23PM by moremany.