Europeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?

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You don't have to repair it if you can't break it.

Try breaking a brick wall with your head or fists, lol.

Try rebuilding a brick wall after a tornado, you're going to spend so much more money and you won't have a house for a lot longer

That's the other side of the confusion. You build houses out of sticks and paper, and live in somewhere called Tornado Alley...

I don't build houses, nor do I live in Tornado Alley lol

I think that was an empirical "you", not you specifically..

Yeah, I live in an area prone to tornadoes. Not as tornado prone as the midwest, but we've seen tornadoes in this area.

A particularly notable one touched down in a town not far from here, in the business district. It tore down multiple steel framed cinder block buildings including a Lowe's Home Improvement Center and a Tractor Supply Company.

A big bad wolf might not be able to blow a brick house down, but an EF3 tornado certainly can.

I'd like to see a tornado tearing up a brick house as easily as a wood and drywall house.

It doesn't need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it's no longer structually sound.

They do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.

Easy, can your brick house handle a 400 kph car flying into, follow by chunks of trees, houses, ice ball the size of grapfruit.

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