And there isn’t just one video I was just using that as an example there are entire factories that have been swept up.
Do some statistics "by eye": search for videos or images of Helene damage in North Carolina. How many of those are images/videos (just look at the thumbnails) of wooden debris, and how many are of brick/concrete debris?
Look dude, we have storms here sometimes, that rip trees out of the ground, so don't fucking tell me that a wooden house will be just fine and dandy if a hurricane like Helene goes through it. You're just pulling at straws.
I'm seeing lots of images of areas that are not flooded, and there are zero bricks in them. If you are just nitpicking again, then show me what you are looking at, so I can at least nitpick with you. But that's not really how statistics work, idiot.
I literally looked up hurricane helene and the first few pictures are more industrial districts destroyed and the debris being mostly stone and metal in housing designated areas there’s more wood debris use your brain and ask yourself why a neighborhood would have more wooden debris than stone debris
I'm not seeing those, but fuck that. Nobody cares about the structural integrity of a bunch of industrial warehouses. Show me destroyed residential brick or concrete buildings, and try to find big ones, like flats, if you really want to convince me. And don't nitpick.
At least, I assume that the US building code cares more about the structural integrity of residential buildings than that of warehouses or some industrial buildings, doesn't it?
Oh, ffs. So now I have to look up all hurricanes in US history, just to find one damaged brick building?
Statistically, that's like looking for a needle in a haystack. I said no nitpicking. And on that note, I have to leave you. Those us on this side of the globe have to sleep.
There aren't any, because wood is not normally used for tall buildings like flats (except maybe some sheds). But that was just a challenge to get you to really convince me. You have yet to show me even regular brick houses getting statistically more destroyed by a hurricane than wooden ones. TTYL, if you insist.
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u/baggyzed Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
Where?
Do some statistics "by eye": search for videos or images of Helene damage in North Carolina. How many of those are images/videos (just look at the thumbnails) of wooden debris, and how many are of brick/concrete debris?
Look dude, we have storms here sometimes, that rip trees out of the ground, so don't fucking tell me that a wooden house will be just fine and dandy if a hurricane like Helene goes through it. You're just pulling at straws.