Talk:2010 Billings tornado

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It's damaged, not destroyed[edit]

Apparently some people think they can base whether a building is destroyed or not off of a car. There's a large difference. A building has large parts and they each need to be ripped apart to qualify as "destroyed". Merely losing a roof does not qualify as total destruction! Over 80% of the building is still standing. On the Enchanced Fujita Scale, note that a building is not destroyed until it has sustained EF4 damage, whereas losing a roof is only EF2. "Destroyed" is a term used loosely to describe tornado damage, and the fact the Metrapark wasn't even a total loss signifies this word was not used appropriately. --99.107.241.102 (talk) 19:01, 20 June 2012 (UTC) Technically there was a business by mcdonalds that was destroyed. It was a saflite repair thing Well see here is the thing, a ripped off roof is far from all that happened to that building. A ripped of roof wouldn’t have cost 27 million to rebuild.[reply]

Could you please put your signature at the end of your statements? Regardless of whether it is "all" that happened, the vast majority of the building was still left standing. It was not a total loss, and how much it cost to rebuild is irrelevant. The fact that it was rebuilt at all means the Metrapark was not destroyed. --99.107.241.102 (talk) 16:13, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

World English Dictionary

destroy

— vb

to ruin; spoil; render useless

Linda Rider (talk) 01:26, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I feel dancing around dictionary definitions accomplishes little (by that, taking the batteries out of a flashlight would be destroying it), and anyway, that does not fit what occurred to the Metrapark. When used to describe tornado damage, destroyed should be used describe a structure that is completely blown down. --99.107.241.102 (talk) 16:13, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]