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To: elmatador who wrote (49186)	4/25/2009 4:09:59 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218397

Homes built of slump-stone (hollow brick) are the least expensive type to build in America, so they are very unpopular as they seem very down-market. You find them most often in places where humidity is a problem for wood, such as in Florida. It is also typical construction for inexpensive retail stores like a 7-11. The only construction which is less costly is a prefab trailer home. In California, prefab homes are still registered as automobiles. In California the few brick homes are actually wood homes with brick tiles glued to the outside of the home. There are also a few brick buildings built many years ago before earthquake standards went into effect. These buildings were either retrofitted with steel beams to maintain the building structure as the brick walls collapse in an earthquake, or torn down. Most of the tornado damaged homes you see in the Midwest are inexpensive trailers and prefab homes as they suffer great damage being even anywhere near tornado winds. When a tornado makes a direct strike, the only type of buildings which survive are those built of reinforced poured concrete. The only portion of brick home left standing by a tornado is the foundation. I understand most sensible people who live in these areas have at least a reinforced poured concrete shelter in or near their home. But there are many poor Brazilians who live in the Midwest, working in agricultural plants, who cannot afford more than a trailer or prefab home. .