Tornadoes, Stingray & Telescopic Houses ?

Question

Volcanoes, Earthquakes & any kind of flood, if you're caught up in natural disasters like these you're in dire straits!

But what of the Tropical Cyclonic storm?

I believe there's a way we CAN BEAT NATURE!

How?

With architecture - with what I've euphemistically called TELESCOPIC BUILDINGS - watch this clip:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs - have you finished laughing yet?
The main building in this clip - called http://stingray.sfdaydreams.com/ (scroll down along with other models in the classic kids hit TV show are able to move themselves up and down beneath the ground.

Surely this is the answer to hurricanes and typhoons isn't it?
But what of the cost I hear you say?

Isn't that the real challenge? To 'scale' the whole thing up & create a design we can mass produce? After all, we've been using lifts in buildings for a very long time now - can't we take it a step further & somehow actually make buildings INTO LIFTS to save precious lives?

This question is principally aimed at those poor sods who suffered that horrendous tornado in Enterprise, Alabama; where I believe they lost the roof to their school - just imagine a telescopic school!!

What about people ? Is it possible you engineers and architects out there could design buildings that could adapt to bad weather such as this?

Surely the bottom-line is - if your homes and schools and office and maybe whole factories etc., aren't on the SURFACE when one of these cyclonic events happens, then we can protect our buildings as apposed having to keep rebuilding them everytime a storm hits?

Answer 1

I stopped reading this when you said you believe we can beat mother nature........

Answer 2

Good Luck, as the ground Shallows you up,