[Skunkworks] Off Topic : Tornados and living in the flat lands

With the heavy rains and adverse conditions, I wonder how people in the subject areas with an annual worry about their property, lives, livestock cope? Is this why they still build wooden houses yet stone can easily survive tornados? Then we get to see the weather videos of a roof flying or a whole community devasted by nature? A thot... -- "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford