On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:59:08 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/23/2017 3:42 PM, grg wrote: >> Nor do those characteristics describe millions of homes and buildings. How >> many buildings do you think are destroyed in Kansas by tornados each year? >> Hundreds, for a survival rate of 99.99%. So no, it's not because cows are >> running away from approaching tornados or because they're sharing Farmer >> John's storm cellar, it's actually because 99.99% of the spots in Kansas >> don't have a tornado land on them. > > The size of a home or even a large barn in rural Kansas is a tiny > faction of the size of a 150km^2 (say) power station. Rural homes in > Kansas are spread out dozens to hundreds of kilometers apart. So when a > tornado touches down the chances of hitting a given home is small and > the chances of it hitting several is practically nil. > > Unless it hits Topeka. > > That 150km^2 power station? That's the size of Topeka which got > clobbered by a sequence of tornadoes in 1966.
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