While there are more tornadoes overall in the Great Plains Tornado Alley, they're more likely to be deadly in the Southern Tornado Alley. Here's why.
The Great Plains has long been considered the country’s tornado hotbed, thanks to movies like “The Wizard of Oz” and “Twister.” But in the past two decades, a swath of the southeastern US has proven much more deadly, resulting in close to a thousand deaths in the last 25 years.
A big point of failure for mobile homes can be their anchoring systems. Many mobile homes use a pier-and-beam foundation, where a home is elevated on beams and secured to the ground. If an anchoring system is installed incorrectly or degrades over time, strong winds can easily lift and toss mobile homes, leading to fatalities. And it doesn’t take a major tornado.
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