American hurricanes
 

We all know that American hurricanes can wipe out whole cities. But does it mean that you have some special hurricanes there? Maybe the problem is... your Barbie-style paper houses? Sometimes we have real hurricanes even in Moscow and they look like... just trees and billboards are flying across the streets, but when you are resting on sofa in a reinforced concrete building, which was made to stand a nuclear blast, you just don't even hear anything that happens outside the closed windows. How can you live in paper houses and trailer pars (living in cars??? for real???) if your country can be affected by hurricanes?

A Russian Taymyr - 60C cold and hurricanes outside. Good for your skin :winkwink:

what year did you guys start building homes out of concrete?

They started in the 70’s , and never stopped

For real? Why?

I dunno. Since the beginning of 20th century maybe. Stalinist architecture - Wikipedia

Stalin has started with these (1933-1955):



Khrushchev did them like that. These considered the low life trash ones - there was not lift in a 5-stage blinding:



During Brezhnev times they were looking like that:



Look ugly? Yeah they are, but that's a reinforced concrete. When a nuke blasts, it stays still just like nothing happened. When there is a hurricane with flying trees, just close the windows and you won't even know what happens outside. A -40C cold on the street? No problem, wear shorts at a naked body and you are supper duper well at home.

Try to do this (@ 1:50) in standard Russian apartments and you'll get the bullet ricocheted into your own head:

You don't know much about hurricanes. Does your concrete box have windows? The tornado's inside a hurricane will clean your ass right out of any building you happen to be hiding under a desk in.

Nope. Just open the doors to equalize the pressure. It will work even if there will be an absolute cosmic vacuum outside. Physics. Just a regular physics...

Americans build houses like Dorothy's house.

Apparently, you have never been in a hurricane, yet you speak with authority. The hurricane opens whatever doors it wishes and gives no fucks about physics. Schooled on hurricanes by a Russian. WTF.

Didn't get it. You wanna say we have no hurricanes in Russia or what? We just have much less problems, because as I said above, most of buildings here are made of reinforced concrete.

I think one of the things comes down to the simple fact that you, the American or person buying in the US either builds it or buys it. We have to pay for it ourselves.

When a lot of those places you are showing were built that was not really the case as far as I know. The Government built it and said. You! Will live here.

The vast majority of homes in the South Eastern area are made of Block and cement. However because of costs some have the second floor made of wood. Hence the damage.

Furthermore Moscow does not get many hurricanes but the US does. So the homes and buildings get small amounts of damage over and over and then finally fail

The US also has never really thought that the citizens needed to live in Nuke resistant buildings.

lol - Russians are funny...

BTW - You don't have hurricanes in Russia - You might get storms with hurricane force winds, but they are not hurricanes.....

I'd rather die in a hurricane than live in those dumps.

:2 cents:

https://pashbymaul.files.wordpress.c...g?w=1024&h=768

Yes, let's all live in these shitholes because safety.

Why not? Much better than trailer parks or those standard American paper-made one-stage Barbie houses which can be penetrated by a finger. You understand that a house on the picture above is not some super-duper luxury building, but a low end one. If you are Russian and you short of money you live in that shithole or even in a worse-looking ones. If you are an American and you short of money, you live here:

https://bostonglobe-prod.cdn.arcpubl...FBKSJH6PWM.jpg

or here:

https://www-images.christianitytoday...4752.jpg?w=600

So I would live in a shitty house from you picture rater than in a trailer. At least I'll have electricity, gas, central heating system which can easily stand -30C, hot water, garbage chute on each floor and a lift.

Oh gee who knew all this time, guys all we had to do is simply open the door so the wind can blow right though. Simply amazing what will these Russian scientists think of next...

Perhaps they may even try to land on the moon one day..

the ruski is so clueless; comparing an apartment building to a house. #becausephysics

FYI: those "Russian homes" would be called the projects here and we save them for the poor.

Dude, these American houses you are talking about are called dachas in Russia (click the link and read the article). They are usually used as summer residences. So an average family (since the Soviet Union times) has apartments in the city and a dacha outside, usually near forest and river. For example, my parents had a dacha about 40 kilometers away from the city. It was a rather big two-stage brick house (not some paper-made shit). It was something like this but with a small veranda and it was a bit higher, because ours had an additional ground stage, which was used as a tool warehouse.

https://img01.obyava.ua/classified/0...p40iutlj1v.jpg

^ You in America call it a house, we call it a dacha or a summer home for BBQ, parties and enjoying a natural life.

So to sum it up for a clueless American: a typical family here has two homes: apartments in a building and a personal stand-alone house (aka dacha). This is not some sort of a rich life. This is a standard way of life even for a plant worker or a taxi driver.

Now click this and you'll see the pictures of random Russian dachas: https://www.google.com/search?q=&#10...&tbm=isch&sa=X - we don't live there and use them to take a break from the city with its noisy mad rhythm.

BTW, I'll show you one more secret type of Russian "houses". Check these out: https://www.google.com/search?q=&#10...&tbm=isch&sa=X - as usually just a random set of images.

You Americans may think these are some wooden dachas where Russians live during summer season, right? You are wrong. These are dacha baths. If you have a dacha with a house where you spent a lot of time, you need a bath house. It's yet another wooden building near the main house. Baths are a kind of fetish in Russia.

They usually look like this:

https://srubkottedg.ru/imag/pr768.jpg

or like this (you Americans call them trailer houses LOL):

https://gorod-masterov.com/wp-conten...5-1024x576.jpg

A hint: you can recognize them by small windows, like those you have in bathrooms. They are not as big as usual windows in living houses.

Pretty much all houses in Poland since...forever really... are built from cinder blocks and concrete. Not really too much that can happen to them. What I really don't get is the wooden apartment buildings in the US/Canada. The 3-4 floor ones - so noisy inside.

I live in hurricane central aka Florida. The older homes aren’t Cracker Jack Soviet homes. They withstand up to certain category of hurricane. New homes are up to code. There are people who actually are experts when inspecting homes for this type of stuff. Even the block/wood homes are great.

Russia is famous for it's concrete.
It gives a good color to the suburbs.

Enough of this shit, let's see some Russian tits.

lol @ hurricanes and tornados in Moscow..lol lol

dude don't compare that with winds in carribean zone

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oh yes, I can imagine Russian dacha of the same standard as typical american house.
with the same quality of roads leading to it, same interior and same furniture.
also, same space inside.

I can...
I just need to drink 2 more litres of vodka

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depends on the building and neighbors, they are not that bad, trust me :winkwink:

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These ones?

https://images.thestar.com/kCoChFpHC...6_Gallery.jpeg

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos...re-id946840028

https://www.dbcrealestate.com/wp-con...-1024x1024.jpg

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Ah ok. Wish you to live all your life in those American standard super houses :1orglaugh

P.S. Russian dacha is a BBQ house, while those... they really live there. American standard my ass :1orglaugh

Does Russia even have hurricanes?

In order for a hurricane to hit Russia it would have start in the Pacific, go through Japan, South Korea, North Korea, China, and then Russia.... By the time it hits Russia it's a rainstorm not a hurricane.

Yes more or less.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...does-twisters/

They may not call it the same but they do.

A fair amount of the US is in earthquake zones too, concrete isn't really great in earthquakes . Not sure if that's an issue in Russia or not.

In fact they have typhoons :winkwink:

This is how you make a thread interesting!

This is typical American ingenuity. Unlike Russian blockhouses that have to sit there during a nuclear blast, Americans simply hook up their ride to their house and head to a non-nuclear blast zone. Someplace sunny like Arizona. Sheesh, it doesn't take a brain scientist to figure this one out.

Whole NYC lives in apartment buildings and I see no problem with that.

https://untappedcities.com/wp-conten...eff-Reuben.jpg

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_mDE...9_DSC05667.jpg

https://www.thespruce.com/thmb/1wNRJ...ae6681cea8.jpg

https://ds4.cityrealty.com/img/ee5a4...-street-00.jpg

I believe those will also stay any hurricane, but NYC is not America, just like Moscow is not Russia... :2 cents:

Concrete is not a good solution to withstand earthquakes, but the reinforced one is. Telling you as a person with a high education degree in construction engineering.

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Indeed bro. This is what every engineer on planet Earth learns at the first day in university:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile...d-concrete.ppm

You - pornographers with a basic US school "education" don't actually understand what is shown there and how it is used for earthquake protection of buildings, right? A concrete works well for pressure, while a reinforced one works for both: pressure and stretching.

This is how a pure steel, which is used for reinforcement, works against stretching (earthquakes, hurricanes etc):

https://www.jayfisher.com/_borders/s...in%20curve.jpg

Every 1st grade student here knows the picture above. And yes, the red cross means boom shakalaka. Have you been to the Elm Street in Dallas. There are two white crosses on asphalt. The guy needed two shots in the head to die. The reinforcement concrete needs just one, but it fights it for a long long time.

My family has a beach house in NC- built when my dad was a boy, so 1940's. Originally 1 story, cinder-block exterior, built on a slab. In 1984 they poured a new footer to support a brick face for the first floor, and added a second floor with a brick exterior.

This house has withstood countless hurricanes with minimal damage. No shutters, no boards, just bring in the porch chairs, and take down the flag. We've lost a few shingles over the years, and found some sand on the windowsills, but that's it.