Talk:Amity Colosseum/@comment-26882656-20151010150854/@comment-4010415-20151012075354

The reason tornadoes tend to rip apart houses is because houses in tornado alley are built specifically so that the tornado cannot literally pick it up. The houses are built to withstand the weaker tornadoes, which will just throw things through windows and tear up the roofs. Brick houses are actually a lot safer, but they don't build 'em out of brick anymore. My grandpa lived in a brick house, and a tornado passed right on top of it and did barely any damage to it. Meanwhile, it ripped the metal roof off his neighbor's barn and pulled trees up by their roots, though the trees didn't go very far.

The biggest causes of damage by tornadoes are

1. The tornado pulling up something that isn't held down strongly enough.

2. The tornado throwing things at it. This is one of the really big dangers of tornadoes and the reason people will always tell you to stay the hell away from windows during a tornado warning.

The safest place to be when a tornado hits is underground, but some places in tornado alley don't have the right kind of soil for building basements. If you can't get underground, get to the middle of your house, putting as many walls between you and outside. That way, you'll be safe from any glass that goes flying if something crashes through your window. That, and some of the stronger tornadoes can throw a piece of wood through a brick wall, so...

If a tornado is gonna destroy the colosseum, it'll do it by either throwing the colosseum or throwing things into it.