Tornadoes are a billion-dollar problem — and the costs are expected to rise. Here’s why they are so destructive and how communities can invest in resilience.
From 2018 to 2023, there have been 17 billion-dollar climate disasters involving tornadoes, and the costs are expected to grow.Part of the challenge with building tornado resilience in the U.S. is that building codes are generally a local and a financial decision.
That means a tornado's rating is directly related to the resilience of the buildings in the community it hits. "That is really important because we have way more people living east of the Mississippi River," Gensini said."And so basically, we have more targets, more exposure, more vulnerability as humans, our built environment, where these tornadoes are happening, and that creates more and more tornado disasters.""It's kind of like this two-sided coin, if you will, where we have this change in probability due to climate.
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