Another Reason McMansion's Suck. Hard.

[NashVegas]

When a tornado hits, you may as well be living in a trailer park. These are from the Tennessee tornados this afternoon.












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[amitten]

1. Your avatar scares me. n/t

[NashVegas]

2. You Will Come to Love Batboy

In time.

[amitten]

4. No, I am afraid I will not.

:scared:

[bbernardini]

17. One of the best musicals EVER.

Amazing music and orchestration.

[htuttle]

10. It's from 'The Paper'

[amitten]

16. It's from "My Nightmares". n/t

[sleipnir]

3. McMansion or no, your home is going to get f'ed by a tornado.

If it's a direct hit, nothing save a cast iron building will be saved.

At least with the McMansion, you have somewhere to go underground on little to no warning to at least have a chance of survival.

That said, yes they do suck, but I'd take my chances in a McMansion over a trailer any day.

[Beelzebud]

5. Yeah I was just about to say the same thing.

Kinda shitty of the OP use people getting nailed by a tornado to make a point about how they hate yuppies....

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. Isn't that typically DU, though?

:shrug: Gas prices rising and the SUV drivers get bashed, as if they are solely responsible for the rising gas prices and the dwindling oil reserves.

[theHandpuppet]

20. From what I've seen of the photos and news clips

It looks as if some of these expensive houses were built on slabs. As for me, I'd never live in a house without a basement.

[sweetheart]

31. is that really so?

If i and some aerospace engineers were to design
a house, probably we'd use sheet metal as an exterior,
including roller-storm shutters, but it does indeed seem,
that the damage is simply that housing stock is not
engineered to the proper specifications.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Wow. What a mess. They look like they were made of matchsticks.

[Lorien]

7. Typical McMansions. They didn't fair well down here after hurricane

Charley. My 1920's home? Not a scratch. Modern building methods are absurd.

[pitohui]

28. my friends 20s home, they died in it

yeah, their house laughed at betsy too, it didn't laugh at katrina

smugness is all fun and games until someone gets killed

there is nothing sacred abt old-time construction, you just had good luck, and luck turns

[norml]

8. They are made of balsa wood and paper.

I see them being built every day.

They've lots of gables, but no structural integrity.

[MADem]

9. Incredibly shoddy, under all that faux stone, aren't they? n/t

[DBoon]

15. Kind of a metaphor for our whole society

don't you think?

"Looks nice, but crumbles under pressure"

[nashville_brook]

11. i wouldn't exactly call these mcmansions, but your point is well taken

this is pretty moderate "ex-burb," commuter housing. crappy, awful shit.

[NashVegas]

12. They Were Saying 250-300k Homes on the News

In Nashville that's nothing to sneeze at, outside of Belle Meade & Green Hills.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Not just McMansions

I've seen substantial, pre-World War II houses get turned into scrap heaps by tornados.

There used to be a huge, Tudor-style house at a certain bend in the road along the shores of Lake Minnetonka. We always watched for it as kids. The spring that I was in ninth grade, tornados hit our area. The next time we drove past the site of that huge house, it was utterly demolished. The lot stands vacant to this day.

[beam me up scottie]

14. Exactly! Thank you.

Entertainer William Lee Golden surveys they damage to his home in Sumner County after a tornado hit the area. The home was built in 1786 for Capt. James Franklin and is one of the oldest in the state. photo/Larry McCormack

Tornadoes aren't choosy.

[pitohui]

29. yes lydia thank you

some of these folks are going to get themselves killed w. their own smugness

i don't want anyone else to die, i'm sick of this crap

people put down the schadenfreude and be real, your house is just as vulnerable

[Swamp Rat]

18. Damn! Those poor people!

... especially that little child in the last photo. :(

[TheBaldyMan]

19. some things is wish America had ...

Universal healthcare, an honest President ...
and bricks.

[tnlefty]

21. Don't know about McMansions, but my spouse left at 7 this morning

and he's in Crossville. No reports of fatalities, some injuries, and as he put it, "I've been through 3 areas that were subdivisions and they're torn all to hell."

The worst that we had here was severe storms - windows rattling and the house shaking a little - flooding in some areas, but damn those photos look rough.

[annabanana]

22. stay safe tnlefty

(we can't spare any lefties in tn, you know)

[tnlefty]

25. LOL!!! Ain't that the damned truth!

He was in Madison, WI all last week and then he left this morning to go to Crossville. Because I've been the only parent home my kids have attended the grand opening of our county party headquarters, the grand opening of the headquarters for a candidate for sheriff, a county commission candidate's forum, and this evening we attended a meet 'n' greet for the same candidate for sheriff. The list of events we missed is rather long, too. Whew!! They'll either be entrenched in the democratic party or they'll avoid it altogether! I'm working on the former.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. My house is three side brick, front and sides, the back is wood siding.

Most of the houses in my neighborhood are at least that, some are all brick. Still, I wonder how well we would come out in a tornado of that magnitude? I hope never to find out.

[ContraBass Black]

32. Is it made of brick, or covered in brick?

When things start flying, you might see a difference.

[Blue_Tires]

24. from living around the south, i can tell you that

it's a crapshoot...there are next to NO legal standards for building quality/controls, and for years now, many of these newer homes have been slapped together and without major work, end up looking like crap by the fifth year...(fwiw, my uncle is also in residential development)

[pitohui]

27. yes even a big home can be hurt by a tornado

i live in new orleans, ask the good people of lakeview what good it does having a big home, big homes can be destroyed just as good as small homes

if your point is schedenfruede then at least wait a few days or months or years until we're in the mood for your gloating

if your point is other maybe be a bit more explicit

don't know quite what you're getting at

yes, the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike but the dude in the trailer never had a nice home, at least the dude in macmansion had his dream for a time, my math says that it's better to have your dream some percentage of the time than to have it zero percentage of the time

i have the pictures the same as yours from point cadet, biloxi, now nothing but a slab, of homes worth prob. all of $25K beforehand

if you think only trailers and macmansions get trashed and old time strong construction doesn't get trashed you just don't know the reality of wind and water can do

[Redstone]

30. Those are people's fucking HOMES, for Christ's sake.

Whether you approve of them or not.

Your post is just plain cruel. And kind of sickening.

Redstone

[ContraBass Black]

33. What kind of house doesn't fall over in a tornado?

Bunkers don't count.

[toddaa]

34. Remind me to be smug when your house is wiped out