----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:15 PM Subject: Re: Homeowners Associations - Dictatorships in the US?
> >From the weather geek in me: the Fujita-Pearson Scale is based on damage > done to man-made structures. A super strong tornado in the Mississippi delta > that destroys nothing valuable could be a F0, while a moderate tornado that > by chance, as in it never moves more than a few feet for some minutes but > completely destroys two houses, could be a F5. How sure are you of this. Everything I've read, including the web site you furnished, gives the F number in terms of the maxium wind speed. I've been following meterology ever since I took near daily breaks from my disseration and walked over to the UW meterology building to look at the weather maps back in the late '70s and early '80s. > This we site compares death rates vs. scale and all tornaodes from 1950 - > 1994. > > http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm > > Kevin T. >
