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Originally posted by andcbii:

But the winds weren't scaled down. Your argument only makes sense if the winds were scaled down.

No my arguement made perfect sense. Yours makes no sense... please explain how u figure it only makes sense if the winds were scaled down too. If they left that little house the way they had it they would have needed to increase the wind to get the same effect as full scale cause that little one was too strong. Do me a favor go outside and grab a huge stone and throw it on the ground and watch it shatter, now go find a pebble and throw it down, no shatter. Andcbii, you obviously have failed to grasp the concept we're all getting at as well as the mythbusters.

The pressure in Hurricane Camille when it made landfall was about 13.2 psi. That's a pressure difference of only 1.8 psi, assuming you sealed your house up perfectly airtight before the low pressure system moved in.

A window that is going to break in an 1.8 psi pressure differential would also break in a 20 mph wind. It wouldn't survive the gusts of a mild thunderstorm.

you know what they forgot to do in that experiment? they forgot to scale the wood used to build the house. they were using regular 2x4s which wouldn't be to scale. enlarge the house they built and the structure would be stronger than any normal house.