Thought I already covered this, but I'll repeat. People allowing their newborn child to be badly burned after leaving them in the sun during a heat wave. People not checking on their old, senile, ill family members during a heat wave, because they chose not to listen to the warnings. A half million people going to the hospital for avoidable heat-related health issues. The guy who brought up wooden houses not withstanding a natural disaster after I just used it as an example of typical European ignorance in US weather threads.
I'm on my phone so I can't easily quote him, but he asked for an explanation. As an example, we had an EF3 tornado that hit my neighborhood in May. Generally the same or higher wind speeds than a hurricane. Once in a lifetime thing for us, definitely nothing we were prepared for, and we're still in the clean up process almost 2 months later. We have a mix of brick and "wooden" homes in the area. Tons of damage from trees, debris, and straight up wind, but the houses that were completely destroyed literally exploded from the pressure. They wouldn't have survived regardless of material. And the recent Oklahoma tornadoes were EF5s, much stronger, larger storms. They actually warn that brick homes can be more dangerous, because the materials are heavier, can crush more, can collapse a basement or shelter, etc. Brick sounds great in theory but its still not going to stand up against those winds and can be more deadly. Same with basements/shelters. While they are critical in saving many lives, they can also be what kills when they flash flood during these storms and you're trapped under tons of rubble.
