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Tornado Papers
Enhancing local level emergency management: The influence of disaster experience and the role of households and neighbourhoods
Brenda Murphy, Leanna Falkiner, Gordon McBean, Holly Dolan, Paul Kovacs
July 2005

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Wind Loads on Houses - Destructive Model Testing of a Residential Gable Roofed House
B. Visscher, G.A. Kopp, P.J. Vickery
March 2004

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Wind loads on houses: A wind tunnel study
L.M. St. Pierre, J.K. Galsworthy, R. McKinnon, F.M. Bartlett
July 2003

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Numerical Simulations of High Intensity Winds. Downburst Simulations.
Horia Hangan
July 2002

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A Tornado Scenario for Barrie, Ontario
David Etkin, Soren Brun, Solomon Chrom, Pooja Dogra
July 2002

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