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Originally Posted by NALEM
I'm not an engineer, but I think the homes built on the West Coast of USA/CA use wood framing because of the flexibility needed due to frequent earth quakes in the region.
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You would be disappointed, but armored concrete can stay earth quakes much better than a wood. It can stay earth quakes, hurricanes and even a nuclear blast.
This spring/summer we had some serious hurricanes in Moscow. The people have died of lightnings and accidents of flying trees, billboards etc, but
nobody has died in the house.
In all those videos you can hear the comments of operators, but you can't hear a sound of hurricane. When windows are closed, you look at flying trees like in a movie. You can see them, but don't even hear anything - you are like in bunker when you live in the house made of an armored concrete.
Course I would be worried about that I'd lived in a paper-like barbie house.