Have you ever noticed how houses are built? They use small nails and screws to hold the wood pieces together. It's no wonder houses are so easily destroyed in tornados and hurricanes. Think about this once. We have a large house, filled with heavy furniture which weighs many tons, and it;s being held together with a these tiny nails and screws that fit in our hands and weigh less than an ounce. How in the heck are those small things supposed to hold together a large house? Sure, under ideal conditions they do, and that is mostly just because the wooden pieces are stacked in a way that that any stacked objects will stay in a stack as long as the stack is not pushed or shoved. The nails do not hold anything, they only retain the stack in position. But when force is applied, the stack collapses because the nails are weak. Consider the facts. How can a 1/8 inch (or less) thick piece of steel hold together a megaton house? The answer is, IT CAN NOT. That thin piece of steel can easily be broken with a simple plyers and a few pounds of muscle power. Nails and screws are obsolete and outdated. They should have become history many years ago, when the settlers to this country moved out of tents and discovered how to build a log cabin. Yet, in this modern age we still use them, and people die constantly when storms apply some force to the houses and other structures that we build with nails. When are we going to learn to build properly, where all wood is welded together using glues and adhesives, along with interlocking pieces of wood which we had used in the earlier barn construction. If wooden pieces were both interlocked AND glued, our homes would withstand most storms. Instead we continue to use nails and screws, while people die and homes are destroyed whenever the wind blows strongly. Wake Up America !!! Lets start building houses that STAY together......
Larry