Meteorologist Breaks Down Natural Disasters in Movies & TV | GQ

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Meteorologist David Yeomans breaks down natural disaster scenes from movies and television, including 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' 'The Day After Tomorrow,' 'The Crown,' 'Only the Brave,' 'Twister,' 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' 'War of the Worlds,' 'The Impossible,' 'Dante's Peak' and 'Everest.'

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I grew up on the New Madrid Fault so earthquakes were always pretty common Once when I was a kid we had to get under my house in the crawlspace with all the pets. We had a rabbit at the time so my mom put him in a large Tupperware container so he wouldn't run off, but idk how she would have held onto it. Luckily it missed us (it hit the woods behind my granddad's house just up the road) but they cause so much destruction in so little time, they're terrifying to me.(a couple a year that you could feel, maybe?) but tornadoes scared me the most.

Honestly as a structural engineer now, I think tornadoes are still more terrifying than earthquakes. Both are unpredictable, but in the midwest there isn't really any code for designing to tornado winds while in high seismic zones, new buildings are designed to handle seismic events and even old structures have been retrofitted. The Northridge earthquake did a lot to revolutionize how buildings are designed for seismic loads. But even in the most recent code books tornadoes are considered "extraordinary events" despite the fact that, for example, Nashville has experienced two massively destructive tornadoes since the 90s.