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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
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.
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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.