I don't build houses, nor do I live in Tornado Alley lol

Yeah, I live in an area prone to tornadoes. Not as tornado prone as the midwest, but we've seen tornadoes in this area.

A particularly notable one touched down in a town not far from here, in the business district. It tore down multiple steel framed cinder block buildings including a Lowe's Home Improvement Center and a Tractor Supply Company.

A big bad wolf might not be able to blow a brick house down, but an EF3 tornado certainly can.

It doesn't need to tear it down, just weaken it enough that it's no longer structually sound.

They do, its a tornado. They destroy anything weaker than a nuclear bunker.

Easy, can your brick house handle a 400 kph car flying into, follow by chunks of trees, houses, ice ball the size of grapfruit.

Here you go.