And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, June 19, 2020
There's always that one guy who's late to recognize the danger.
Cinder block. Look at the wall on the right. Which goes by the industry term "unreinforced masonry", and which earthquakes and tornadoes have been turning into rubble in 0.2 seconds since forever.
An actual steel rebar-reinforced concrete building would have stood up to a twister like a pillbox, with only the glass windows and lesser debris (and any stick-framed roof) being the problem, and most of the building would have come through like a champ.
People who build like the Three Little Pigs, for the rain, and not the storm, deserve to learn that lesson good and hard, and eventually do.
Concrete? Not hardly.
ReplyDeleteCinder block.
Look at the wall on the right.
Which goes by the industry term "unreinforced masonry", and which earthquakes and tornadoes have been turning into rubble in 0.2 seconds since forever.
An actual steel rebar-reinforced concrete building would have stood up to a twister like a pillbox, with only the glass windows and lesser debris (and any stick-framed roof) being the problem, and most of the building would have come through like a champ.
People who build like the Three Little Pigs, for the rain, and not the storm, deserve to learn that lesson good and hard, and eventually do.
I'm guessing camera 2 was fairly well shielded, that hair on the lens never budged.
ReplyDeleteI know, right...?
DeleteCool video
in a block building, the corners are always the best place to be.
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