How overloaded do you think this truck is?

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 07/25/2018 at 19:32 • Filed to: None

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A house getting moved prior to the flooding of the Swift River valley to create the Quabbin Reservoir, circa mid  1930s.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/25/2018 at 19:42

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eh... thats an american house.... probably weighs all of 1000lbs... so.. not overloaded at all

damn plywood:p

always wondered... why do you lot build houses out of ply wood in tornado alley?

i mean... i get that its cheap to rebuild....but if you’d built it out of stronger stuff you probably wouldnt have to rebuild... just always seemed a little odd to me is all

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 19:43

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I wouldn't know. I don't live somewhere where there's tornados.

PowderHound > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/25/2018 at 19:44

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That’s a cool shot, I used to live pretty close to the Quabbin. Tried to star but Kinja is a dick

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/25/2018 at 19:47

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me neither

well...not yet anyway.... weathers being a wonky fucker of late

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > PowderHound 07/25/2018 at 19:49

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I grew up in one of the neighboring towns. Spent my childhood making daytrips to the reservoir to fish and hike and go sledding down the back of the Winsor dam on big sheets of cardboard.

There’s a museum at the reservoir full of pictures and other primary documents showing the construction of the dams and the relocation of the four towns. Not much is available online but the whole thing was really well documented.

ranwhenparked > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 19:50

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Because wood is cheap and plentiful here. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ranwhenparked 07/25/2018 at 19:53

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is over here too....we just like building our houses to last more than 50 years... (couple hundred used to be standard... but things got pretty sloppy after we blew everything up in ww2)

ranwhenparked > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 20:00

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Wood buildings last indefinitely, if properly constructed. We have many that are as old as European settlement in this hemisphere.

They get torn down when there’s a more economically viable use for the land, or if they’ve been neglected beyond practical repair, not because they have a useful lifespan that ends.

Europe used to build tons of wood buildings centuries ago, look at how many castles started that way. The Nordic and Alpine countries still have a number of very old timber structures.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ranwhenparked 07/25/2018 at 20:08

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eh.. fair enuff

and yes the nordic and alpine countries do... but they also dont have much in the way of tornados...

tbh.. its just a silly thing ive always wondered about...

in my head logic says... if tornados could happen every year rather than build a wooden house i can rebuild if need be.. ima build the toughest tornado flipping off house i can

ranwhenparked > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 20:13

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Ive wondered that too - building codes in parts of the country don’t make much sense. Remember that tornadoes are quite rare in most of the country outside the Great Plains, but, yeah, the technology exists to build to survive them and it isn’t done much in those areas. Florida is getting better with hurricane survivability though. The newer houses in the Keys that were built to the latest standards generally faired pretty well, their neighbors, not so much. In that case, it typically means metal reinforcing straps in the roof, sacrificial ground floors with breakaway walls, and building the living areas up on pilings.

Personally, if I was going to build in Tornado Alley, I'd be taking a hard look at one of those concrete dome houses, partially underground if possible. 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ranwhenparked 07/25/2018 at 20:17

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the concrete domes is exactly what i was thinking of.. but at the very least id want something i could shutter like a shop... big metal pull down walls and no places for the wind to play any funny business

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 20:21

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Worse yet, a lot of houses out there are mobile homes. Every damned serious tornado seems to result in a news story about how it obliterated XYZ Trailer Park.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/25/2018 at 20:23

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yeah.. i noticed that too..... but i figured if your in a trailer park you probably couldnt afford a proper house

being poor sucks

more so in tornado alley i guess

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 20:26

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I would build an earth berm house of steel & concrete that looks like a hill with power rolling metal window covers for the exposed parts. I mean, I want kids to be able to sled on top of my house and a major tornado to just pass over it.

Mind you, I’d never live out there because tornados are out to get me. I have never lived somewhere tornados are common yet I’ve almost been hit by four of them, including the car I was in getting slid off a road sideways by a tornado when I was a couple years old.

Nom De Plume > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 20:27

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Slackers, your neighbors make them to last a thousand or two. 3 00 is still new.

The almost complete truth is log cabins turned into log houses which turned into blazes that burned for a week when grandma dropped her oil lamp going out for a tinkle at 3 AM. Plywood was much easier to build with and to extinguish.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/25/2018 at 20:32

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this would be me

never been hit with a tornado.. and odds are where i live i never will...

itll be flooding, drought or mad ass thunderstorms that get me one day

(most likely the missus will murder me before the weather does tho)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Nom De Plume 07/25/2018 at 20:34

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lol... tbh...i can get that logic

not in tornado alley where the weather will fuck you up

but anywhere else... i get that logic

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/25/2018 at 20:39

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That’s pretty much what I envision, except that would be a wall of windows and probably 2-3 of them on my hill.

PowderHound > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2018 at 02:28

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I’m no longer in the area, if I was I  would definitely go check that out.

adamftw > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 07/26/2018 at 06:53

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Almost as overloaded as a new Tacoma with a truck bed camper, maxtrax, and a few more overland accessories #homeiswhereyouparkit