Been thru a ton myself. We live right on the eastern edge of Tornado Alley. We’re not as common as Kansas or Oklahoma by any stretch, but we usually get a couple each year. I will say this, yesterday’s storm has me re-thinking the pole barn. A brand new one was taken out in just 60 mph winds. May look deeper at the steel gussetted barns that cost about 3 grand more.
Yeah, structure beefiness should be considered. I once dodged 38 tornadoes in 36 hours in Memphis including one that picked my car up several feet off the road before slamming me back down. I never want to live through that again.
I selected the house I lived in there based on the terrain and the likelihood of a tornado running over it. With that wild breakout of tornadoes, my selection proved correct. All of the tornadoes went north or south of my house by several miles, all following the same general paths.
