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Originally Posted by Army Guy
In TV the golf cart tunnels are excellent! quote]
I'm not too sure golf cart tunnels are that excellent. During the 2007 tornado one end of the tunnel under Buena Vista by Mallory Country Club collapsed. All those retaining wall blocks came tumbling down and blocked one end. If that were to happen at both ends you could be trapped.
Hopefully we never have another big twister through TV, but it's something to keep in mind.
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Good to know the "potential" for even more disaster if those retaining wall blocks crumble down on top of someone inside the golf cart tunnels.
Are they cemented together? When we had a retaining wall built up here in Vermont, they actually are not cemented, but just placed on top of each other. I think only the capstones were cemented.
However, it's a lot different to have an un cemented retaining wall simply holding back a hilly section of the lawn.....vs a tunnel that people travel beneath.......so probably they are cemented, just couldn't withstand the strength of the tornado.
Cinder blocks cemented or mortared together is what I mean. But I assume no matter where one was outdoors, if a tornado really was coming at you, no place outdoors is really safe. Not sure what the golf tunnels are made of.
Vermont rarely, if ever, gets a tornado and if it does, it is pretty mild and just called straight line winds which can take a roof off of a house......however, not too long ago, in our bordering state of Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Mountains, a school teacher was driving some students in a van when out of the blue a tornado came through and literally picked up his van and threw it across the road , landing in a field......the teacher and students were all killed.
That was a very very rare event. This was really a fluke of nature as it isn't something anyone worries about up here..........but even our weather has been changing, and not for the good. Snow due today in higher elevations........in May. We had our May weather in March and April. Go figure. It also snowed on Mother's Day in northern Vermont.
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Originally Posted by BUC
Pulix Grogery stores are designed to withstand type 3 Hurricane force If I were near one that's where I'd go.
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Another good suggestion.........supermarkets, high school, hospital????
If there was adequate warning. Often there is not, from what I've read.