If it originates in the Pacific it is called a Typhoon
If it originates in the Atlantic it is a Hurricane
If it originates in the Indian ocean it is called a Cyclone
If it originates is your ass, it is called a fart.
What if it’s from one of those super fan thing where one swipe generates a powerful wind to sweep you off your feet?
And? How much airtime is TVBullShit, I mean TVBS spending on the Floridian hurricanes? That goes both ways. Besides, Milton looks a lot more destructive than the one we got.
Because American houses are made of sticks and cardboard. It’s the three little pig story. A brick building won’t blow away no matter how hard the wolf huff and puff.
Yup.
watch the government get blamed for not doing enough when those retards die 
as ugly and unhealthy as Taiwanese buildings may be. we often dont blow away and our death counts are WAY less. if anything, its an economy boost here for consultants, construction and project funds to start spending money. the US shouldnt copy our corruption, but they might consider building houses that dont blow the fuck away and kill people…insurance companies are complicit as well. the fact they rebuild crap houses in hurricane alley is beyond logic.
It’s because somehow, insurance aren’t allowed to lower their rates if you built the house stronger. Look even tin shack houses here, often built out of welded 2x4 steel beams (they are quite strong) can withstand fairly strong winds. Because a lot of gongyu is topped with it for weather protection, and they don’t often blow away.
In Taiwan src is required as a part of the building code. I believe there’s some American style houses in yangmingshan, I do not think they are habitable at all. I believe they were built for American soldiers back when they could be stationed here. They’re built like the way they’re built in the states.
I can think of a dozen things off the top of my head that Taiwan doesn’t have in its building code (or is never enforced) that will kill far more people. Sufficient exits/stairs, padlocked shut exits when there are enough exits (was at Nangang a few weeks back and I started panicking because I couldn’t find an unlocked door among the giant doors labeled “emergency exit” and it wasn’t an emergency. Too many people to even be able to move. I wanted to leave because I had no interest is being crammed in with so many people. Now add a fire, earthquake, crazy guy with a knife or gun and everyone will be trampled and die. Because the doors were padlocked shut “for environmental reasons”. Don’t get me started on Songshan Airport), enough width in a hallway for a wheelchair, few elevators in new builds are large enough for a gurney if someone needs to be wheeled out during a medical emergency, not to mention that again, the hallways are too narrow to turn something like that around. Seconds count with medical emergencies, but who cares, an elevator large enough to get the person out would eat up valuable real estate. This is also a massive pain in the ass because you can’t get larger furniture in (large luxury new builds in the US have freight elevators for exactly this purpose). Then we have zero insulation, which leads to massive temperature differential, wasted energy, inevitable mold, non-perishable food going bad quickly, everything in the home degrading far faster than it should. And single pane windows, which are terrible for sound and thermal insulation and lead to an overall lower quality of life (lots of research out there about lower quality of life in places with excess noise).
The US isn’t great on the hurricane-proofing side of things, but just because Taiwan builds everything out of concrete doesn’t make it a better place for overall safety, only the walls (not windows) have better strength against the occasional typhoon. But US building code is still far superior in making sure that people living there have better day to day quality of living.
This is one thing that baffles me. Why aren’t double pane windows even a thing here. It’s really hard to find them too. Only way I can think of is just a window moulding that can take 2 panes of glass.
But I’ve only ever lived in rented apartments. If I owned there’d be more freedom to improve it as necessary. I don’t doubt people who owns will do stuff like that.
How much more expensive is double pane glass in Taiwan?
They are, I’m looking at one now in fact.
It’s not.
How long is a piece of string? A very simple Google search will answer all your questions. Look up triple glazing while you’re at it, blow your mind.
One thing I believe we can agree on is that Taiwan is very good at building stuff that, while being crap, look like crap and maintained like crap, can still generally withstand typhoons and earthquakes.
That Big Shake in April 2024 was a shock but it also, impressively, supported @Membrillo 's statement above. There’s clearly been progress since the awful 921 events in 1999 when so many buildings came down and so many people died.
Guy
I think that last building had illegal modifications done to the first floor, which caused it to collapse.
I recall the only person who died in one of those buildings made the fateful error of reentering it to try to find her cat. It didn’t work out.
Guy
Ripley?
This appears to be a mention of that sad event: