When You Don't Make It

[bigpaul]

I lived in a stone built house on moorland that is now about 300 years old and withstood anything that the British weather could throw at it.
new UK brick houses are built not of a single brick skin but are double walled tied together, I know because I have worked in the Construction industry.
I merely asked about American wooden houses because in "Tornado Alley" I would have thought there would be a legal requirement for some material more substancial, its not Just in America in Canada there are a lot of wooden houses too I helped build one many years ago.