At least 50 dead from today's storms across the South (4/27) (economy, money, claim)
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248 dead and count still rising. Many still unaccounted for as seach/rescue & recover efforts continue.
News from The Associated Press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SEVERE_WEATHER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DE FAULT&CTIME=2011-04-28-06-55-35 - broken link)
Wow I have never seen a tornado in person, it looks scary enough on the small TV screen I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to have one of those monsters bearing down on your house.
What can we do to help? After their corrupt practices were exposed after 9/11 I will not donate to the Red Cross. Is there any other organization out there I can donate to to help our neighbors in need?
Wow I have never seen a tornado in person, it looks scary enough on the small TV screen I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to have one of those monsters bearing down on your house.
What can we do to help? After their corrupt practices were exposed after 9/11 I will not donate to the Red Cross. Is there any other organization out there I can donate to to help our neighbors in need?
Heart to Heart - About Us (http://www.hearttoheart.org/Home/About-Us.aspx - broken link)
When I donate to the Red Cross, instead of the umbrella US website, I donate to a local branch and mail the check to them directly. So, in this case, I would likely choose the Central Alabama chapter of the Red Cross. At least, this is what I did when Greensburg, KS got leveled as well as purchasing product donations to Heart to Heart international linked above. They are local for me so I could buy product and help load it up in their semi-truck. My state gets hit routinely by natural disasters and I usually give to the local chapters rather than at the national level. YMMV
why do you build houses with WOOD
in france and europe all houses are in concrete, ciment
and when we had a tornado in 1999 some roof was detroy, but the houses are not vanished.
Complex legal and financial forces mold American "residential" housing.
They range from the absurd - deliberately preventing factory built "mobile homes" from being built better - to the lowest common denominator of a bureaucratic building code that impedes change.
Building loans are rarely made to those who build "odd" housing, that the lenders believe won't be marketable in the case of default. The net result is a proliferation of wood frame structures that are mediocre at best, and susceptible to fire, water, wind, termite, vermin, mold, earthquake, and just about anything.
... but they're CHEAP (and profitable) to build.
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I have never seen a tornado in person, it looks scary enough on the small TV screen I can't imagine how terrifying it must be to have one of those monsters bearing down on your house.
aerial photo of some of the destruction
