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Sep 4th, 2021, 07:46 AM
#65601
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By the way, this is my neighbor’s roof with structural damage:
We think a shed got lifted up and slammed against her house.
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Sep 4th, 2021, 06:18 PM
#65602
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Had to go look up my home insurance. I pay $574/year, though I'm not sure whether I have quite enough insurance. House prices have been soaring so fast, that insurance covers the last valuation, but the house is probably worth twice as much, so...I could likely replace it, but not buy a new house.
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Sep 4th, 2021, 06:19 PM
#65603
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In Florida, when a hurricane is forecast, people are out knocking the coconuts out of the trees, if they haven't done so already. They can become cannonballs in a hurricane.
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Sep 4th, 2021, 07:14 PM
#65604
Fanatic Member
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Sep 5th, 2021, 04:26 PM
#65605
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Sep 6th, 2021, 02:39 AM
#65606
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Would having slab roof provide a better resistance against hurricanes?
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Sep 6th, 2021, 08:35 AM
#65607
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I genuinely don't know. You don't really see those in Louisiana.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 09:32 AM
#65608
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@dday I see you are having heavy rain again today. Do you have power yet?
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Sep 6th, 2021, 10:35 AM
#65609
Re: Post Race!
No, I got a text message yesterday saying the estimated restoration date is Sept. 29th.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 10:56 AM
#65610
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Originally Posted by dee-u
Would having slab roof provide a better resistance against hurricanes?
Possibly, depending on how it is constructed...and whether or not I'm thinking of the same thing that you are.
Slab roofs that I'm aware of tend to be flat. That can be a problem unless they are well made, but they are viable in the south. They don't work so well in areas with lots of snow, as they have to be VERY strong.
Still, the key to surviving a hurricane is: Good construction. However, you have to build not just well enough to withstand the hurricane forces themselves, but the impact of the debris being tossed about from all the less well constructed houses. DDay's house looks like it was pretty well built, but the windows took a hit, and the roof may have been impacted as much by flying debris as the wind itself. Very hard to build against that.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 11:00 AM
#65611
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There's a restaurant on top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. It has big picture windows (perhaps 10-15' high, though I forget exactly) looking out over the mountain. It has been there for years.
I mention this because Mt. Washington had the worlds highest recorded land windspeed for a very long time (231 mph). It gets hurricane force winds on average of once a week, and 100 mph winds on average once every 10 days, yet that restaurant is doing fine, even with those big windows.
Of course, those windows appear to be double panes, possibly of plexiglass, and each pane appears to be about two inches thick. You can't build a house like that, but if you did, it would shrug off a hurricane.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 12:44 PM
#65612
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This is another example of things being built much better in the past. The town of Bedrock would have minimal damage, Fred and Barny would have been at work at the quarry the next day. Now that's a quality slab roof.
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Sep 6th, 2021, 01:17 PM
#65613
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Yeah, and the windows couldn't blow out, either.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 02:45 AM
#65614
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Still, the key to surviving a hurricane is: Good construction.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 02:59 AM
#65615
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Possibly, depending on how it is constructed...and whether or not I'm thinking of the same thing that you are.
Slab roofs that I'm aware of tend to be flat. That can be a problem unless they are well made, but they are viable in the south. They don't work so well in areas with lots of snow, as they have to be VERY strong.
Still, the key to surviving a hurricane is: Good construction. However, you have to build not just well enough to withstand the hurricane forces themselves, but the impact of the debris being tossed about from all the less well constructed houses. DDay's house looks like it was pretty well built, but the windows took a hit, and the roof may have been impacted as much by flying debris as the wind itself. Very hard to build against that.
I am thinking of a "slab roof" as the ceiling, and a regular roof on top of it. Perhaps some grills or shutters on the windows may provide protection from flying debris. We are regularly battered by strong typhoons the past years, we are lucky that we haven't experienced something that knocked our roof, the most common problem we are experiencing is the flooding.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 07:59 AM
#65616
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I’ve been wanting functional storm shutters since I moved in. Right now (what’s left) there are decorative ones that serve no use.
My old manager showed me how she built hers, and I’ll probably do the same.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 10:02 AM
#65617
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When I was in Florida, our office didn't have real storm shutters. What it had was a set of sheets of plywood with holes drilled so that they fit over studs sticking out from the four corners of the window. A pain to put up and take down relative to storm shutters, but functional...and we had the manpower to install them, when needed.
We then backed boats up against the doors and filled them with water. That acted as a multi-ton door stop. Unfortunately, one of the boats had an internal gas tank that had a leak or vent. Water got into the tank.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 11:21 AM
#65618
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When rebuilding, might want to consider adding storm shutters to the windows to deflect debris and keep out water.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 11:23 AM
#65619
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My GoFundMe account temporarily stopped accepting donations for my campaign. They want to know how I know the people donating. I don't think it'll be an issue because I followed the process to get it back taking donations, but that's something I never even considered.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 05:51 PM
#65620
Lively Member
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Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
And a dog called Toto
That was a tornado.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 05:53 PM
#65621
Lively Member
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dday9
My GoFundMe account temporarily stopped accepting donations for my campaign. They want to know how I know the people donating. I don't think it'll be an issue because I followed the process to get it back taking donations, but that's something I never even considered.
Huh? I've heard of GoFundMe suspending or deleting accounts because they don't like the person's politics, but I never heard that one before.
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Sep 7th, 2021, 06:06 PM
#65622
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That seems kind of opposite to the whole point. I've heard lots of stories of somebody putting up some Go Fund Me and getting money from all over. If you have to know everybody who contributes...aren't you then just asking your friends and family?
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Sep 7th, 2021, 07:18 PM
#65623
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Yeah, I had to write a whole statement about where the donations were coming in from. I was like, I’m big in the programming community, the Boy Scout community, and oh yeah I’m the chief technology officer for voluntaryism in action. Soooo those donations come from a bunch of different places.
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Sep 8th, 2021, 10:11 PM
#65624
Re: Post Race!
Now I wanna play the song Rock You Like a Hurricane on my guitar...the metal version
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Sep 8th, 2021, 11:40 PM
#65625
Lively Member
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Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Now I wanna play the song Rock You Like a Hurricane on my guitar...the metal version
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/scor...ane-tab-s337t1
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Sep 9th, 2021, 01:37 PM
#65626
Re: Post Race!
Today has been particularly rough. My wife's having a bad day thinking about the house.
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Sep 9th, 2021, 01:38 PM
#65627
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it is not too hard for the kids ?
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Sep 9th, 2021, 02:05 PM
#65628
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They think we're on vacation!
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Sep 9th, 2021, 06:57 PM
#65629
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We just got some moisture reading levels. The lowest (least damaged) room is at 17% and the highest (most damaged) is at 19.5%
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Sep 9th, 2021, 08:46 PM
#65630
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by homer13j
Ooooooo. Now i can play along
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Sep 12th, 2021, 07:15 PM
#65631
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Originally Posted by dday9
We just got some moisture reading levels. The lowest (least damaged) room is at 17% and the highest (most damaged) is at 19.5%
I think we have humidity that high.
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Sep 12th, 2021, 08:05 PM
#65632
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I think we have humidity that high.
In our air, not our drywall and wood work...
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Sep 12th, 2021, 09:21 PM
#65633
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I was able to throw or pack everything up this weekend. The contractors are going in on Tuesday to rip out ceilings/walls/floors.
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Sep 13th, 2021, 10:36 AM
#65634
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You were able to throw everything up this weekend? Sounds like you got some bad gumbo.
I was out wandering up streams for the last week. There was a pretty good fire going a ridge or two away. It blew up to 80,000+ acres due to some strong winds. There were pyro-cumulous clouds billowing over the ridge, at times. Fortunately, the wind generally kept the smoke away from us most days, so we didn't breathe in too much of it.
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Sep 13th, 2021, 11:41 AM
#65635
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Funny enough, I did have some gumbo this weekend. It was pretty good for a "roux in a jar".
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Sep 13th, 2021, 12:16 PM
#65636
Re: Post Race!
@dday - I see more heavy tropical rain headed your way - are you in a good spot at your home to weather this next round?
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Sep 13th, 2021, 12:40 PM
#65637
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My house is south of New Orleans, so it won’t be affected by this tropical storm. However, we’ve temporarily moved to the Lake Charles area and they’re expecting some flooding and some light winds.
The only thing I’m really concerned about is my camper because it isn’t covered. Then again it’s just a tropical storm so I’m not going to stress over it too much.
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Sep 13th, 2021, 12:41 PM
#65638
Re: Post Race!
If I pretend it doesn’t exist then all my problems go away, right?
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Sep 13th, 2021, 12:44 PM
#65639
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Sep 13th, 2021, 03:01 PM
#65640
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Or...Power to accept the things you cannot change!
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