This is what I don’t get about people who often get storms. We get typhoons all the time. We had a cement house built with typhoon shutters for the windows and garage door. Its been several years and only damage has been debris from neighbors wood house, breaking one of our security cameras. We have generators that work off of propane and normal gas so no power issues. We would love to get the solar roof, but we live in the middle of the ocean, so no chance of being available here.
Hurricane season has arrived....
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3/4ths inch plywood and old growth timber construction, FTW. Accept no substitutes
Loquat/Japanese Plum tree right outside my boarded up tv room is toast. All my other trees, each of which are native trees, are ok.
Loquat/Japanese Plum tree right outside my boarded up tv room is toast. All my other trees, each of which are native trees, are ok.
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Looks like the storm has already dropped around 20 inches of rain over many heavily populated areas in Central Florida.
Post Andrew building codes.
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Sounds like some sane minds took over and moved people out of Tropicana prior to roof issue.
I guess having a tarp for a roof ain't the way to go in Hurricane central.
Who'd have thunk it?
I’m not a fan of the Trop either, but I’m not about to celebrate this given that there’s a ton of people who were sleeping under that roof last night.
How many times in its history has the “tarp” had to be replaced?
Seems like a poor choice for emergency shelter...
No idea. How many times has St Petersburg been hit with 100 mph winds?
Not when you build on the Gulf of Mexico and experiencing those type winds at some point is a reasonable expectation.
It was probably a $$$ decision.
Absolutely it was a money decision and it turned out to be good decision if this is the first time there was damage.
People love to second guess and criticize.
I think it's worth criticizing if it was going to be used in a Emergency Management situation.
If that was part of the deal when the stadium was funded...it was the wrong decision.
With daybreak I hope we start seeing some positive reports.
I mean this with the best of intent, listening to the news as it hit last night it sounded like the best possible.outcome from a hit/surge/speed perspective. Milton died on its way in. Again, that doesn't mean I don't understand it was still devastating but this thing was a cat 5 two days ago.
I mean this with the best of intent, listening to the news as it hit last night it sounded like the best possible.outcome from a hit/surge/speed perspective. Milton died on its way in. Again, that doesn't mean I don't understand it was still devastating but this thing was a cat 5 two days ago.
It's almost time
I would hope they did some type of stress-testing after what happened Superdome and to the Metrodome. No, it wasn't snow (like the Metrodome) and it doesn't have a concrete roof (like in NOLA), but that wind and rain carries a low of power and weight when it hits. If they ignored it, then they totally dropped the ball and potentially put hundreds/thousands of lives at risk. Heads should (deservingly) roll.
My guess is that they did some stress-testing at some point prior.
I would hope they did some type of stress-testing after what happened Superdome and to the Metrodome. No, it wasn't snow (like the Metrodome) and it doesn't have a concrete roof (like in NOLA), but that wind and rain carries a low of power and weight when it hits. If they ignored it, then they totally dropped the ball and potentially put hundreds/thousands of lives at risk. Heads should (deservingly) roll.
My guess is that they did some stress-testing at some point prior.
I can’t even imagine how many lives the garage door changes have saved through the years.
Watching one of the local stations this morning and one of the guys said Tampa Bay did not get a real surge in the bay and in fact at one point the bay had a reverse surge? Interesting if true.
Looks pretty manageable north of the Skyway bridge. Early morning photos rolling in from some of my Facebook groups show some heavy wind damage but no major surge. Streets are completely clear of sand and drivable minus the debris. But hard to even tell what's new debris and what migrated from last weeks piles....
And he called out the mayor for lying about making him leave.
If this guy hadn't hit a EMT with a violin he would be a ****ing legend.
That's exactly right. Because the storm came in south of the bay, the winds were from the east, pushing water out of the bay.
They were on the leeward side of the wind, due to Milton passing to the south.
If it had gone north of TB, the entire bay would have piled up with water and they'd have had the 10-12' surges.
There's no water there, ahead of time? This is a coastal area, correct? They just need a shitload of mops to draw down the water levels, just like CA needed "rakes", bro...
Ah ok.
Being 2k miles away I feared i might have been missing the real world details on what had actually happened.
Hope you all are safe.
Also:
"It was a little rough until 1130".
I imagine it served as one many times including two weeks ago during Helene. Hind sight is always 20/20.
Caught on camera: Tree falls on moving car
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Tree falls onto moving car in Florida during Hurricane Milton
A DeLand police officer captured video of a driver escaping injury Wednesday when a tree fell on top of a vehicle hours before Hurricane Milton was to make landfall in Florida, WKMG reported on Wednesday.
I have good news and bad news....
The good news is the roof didn't blow away.
The bad news is:
The good news is the roof didn't blow away.
The bad news is:
