Small changes could save structures, lives during tornadoes: Safe rooms, quality garage doors critical
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 17:01
in Earth & Climate
Surviving a tornado in a wood-frame residential home is enhanced by an intact roof and standing walls, but light-weight garage doors can be the weak link to allowing high winds and pressure changes into a home that can lead to the removal of the roof and collapsed walls, according to a study of damage left behind by a powerful tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013.