“...I’ll take a hurricane over a tornado ANYDAY....”
I’ll pass on BOTH if at all possible... They both suck.
Hurricane Sandy almost brought a tree down on my kitchen; my son and I threw ourselves onto the trunk and PUSHED it away from the house as it started uprooting. No exaggeration.
Not a fun time... not at all.
To me, although it would involve some costs...new schools or old schools could be retrofitted with reinforced concrete walls and ceilings. Doors into the classrooms are what would be the issue - not sure how to secure those, or make them not look like prison doors....but at least they wouldn’t have ceilings, debris, or building collapses around the hall ways like we saw yesterday. Architecturaly, it probably wouldn’t look nice....but it seems like it would be an easy retrofit...