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Originally Posted by gblowfish
Today's KC Star as a front page story about how poorly the Home Depot was built in relationship to the Wal-Mart and Academy Sports box stores in the same path of the tornado. Cheap construction with no storm shelter or safe room was a disaster. We have earthquake requirements for building codes where earthquakes are likely, why not have safer building codes in tornado alley? Home Depot couldn't afford to build a storm shelter? This is a law that should be changed because of this tragedy. Story is here:
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This article is an absolute pathetic piece of journalism and is intended to scare people and not to help anything.
Could they make storm shelters for tornados? Of course, but can they make a tornado proof building... only if the owner doesn't care about cost or appearances.
Needless to say the building codes is not what is at fault here.