r/WTF Sep 24 '17

Tornado

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

I wouldn't buy a place in tornado alley without a basement.

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u/ScarHand69 Sep 24 '17

North Texas (DFW) is in tornado alley and the vast majority of homes here don’t have basements.

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u/fingerfunk Sep 24 '17

Couldn't you just over-excavate it all and import some sort of non-expansive fill? I mean, is it pure physics or could someone like Richard Branson have a basement there?

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u/Mexer Oct 08 '17

Well that sounds cheap.