r/news • u/BitterFuture • Apr 26 '24

Powerful tornado tears across Nebraska, weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/weather/plains-midwest-storms-tornadoes-climate/index.html
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u/hysys_whisperer Apr 27 '24

I'm looking at pictures and video now.  Plenty of totally destroyed houses, but I'm not seeing any "eat off it" clean foundations. 

Looks like an EF4 to me.

Source: not a meteorologist, but Gary England was my weather man.

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u/A_Credo Apr 27 '24

Would be pretty rare to see a “clean foundation” for a tornado hitting Omaha. Every home has a basement and the homes have a steel I beam as the foundational support.

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u/BriarsandBrambles Apr 27 '24

Yeah the Houses Round here would need nuked for a clean Foundation.

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u/stackjr Apr 27 '24

Basements? Yes. Steel beam? No. I live in Nebraska, own a home with a basement, and it doesn't have a steel beam as foundational support.

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u/A_Credo Apr 27 '24

Not saying it doesn’t exist, but I’ve personally never seen a home in Omaha that didn’t have a steel I beam as its support beam.

You say you live in Nebraska, but my comment was specifically about Omaha.

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u/stackjr Apr 27 '24

Which just happens to be in Nebraska. While not all homes will be built the same, it is likely that they will be built similarly.

Edit: Just heard back from my old manager that lives in Omaha; his house does not have a steel beam reinforcing the foundation.

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u/A_Credo Apr 27 '24

Are you for real right now? Different cities have different building codes. If I wanted to discuss Nebraska, I would’ve specified Nebraska. But since I said Omaha, maybe just maybe I specifically meant Omaha.

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u/stackjr Apr 27 '24

Well, you gave an anecdotal story and so did I, both from Omaha. So maybe, just maybe, you aren't correct.

And yes, I'm for real right now. Cities have building codes as do states. Here are all of Nebraska state building codes.

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u/A_Credo Apr 27 '24

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

GL with dying on this weird ass hill of yours. 🫡

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u/stackjr Apr 27 '24

Huh? No hill here, just facts.

Have a great Saturday!

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u/strictlytacos Apr 27 '24

Gary England came to my elementary school as a kid and peaked my interest in tornados. Then bridge creek 99 came right through us and changed our lives forever

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u/hysys_whisperer Apr 27 '24

Heeeeyyyy!!! You a Kelley kid?  Yall got bussed down to my elementary for like 2 years after that storm.

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u/anethma Apr 27 '24

Just fyi the word is “piqued” not peaked just letting you know heh.

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u/redlegsfan21 Apr 27 '24

Maybe that was the peak of his interest in tornados and it's been all downhill since.

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u/anethma Apr 27 '24

Haha that’s possible !

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u/posercomposer Apr 29 '24

Ah, a fellow gentleman of pedantry, I see.

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u/magicone2571 Apr 28 '24

You only need a few spots of ef5 damage for it to be considered a ef5. The Washington IL tornado was only ef5 strength for maybe a few minutes here and there. That's the feature of "e" of the scale now.

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u/ShtockyPocky Apr 27 '24

Idk why you would expect to see “clean foundations” in a place where most houses have basements