Re: OT: Tropical Depression Fay

TFM® wrote:


"Gloria P" <gpuester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CfydndhPEateATXVnZ2dnUVZ_t_inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Chris Marksberry wrote:
Chris Marksberry said...

kilikini wrote:
It's supposed to head straight for us. I'm kind of hoping it will.
We're directly near the 8 pm Tues. mark.



Have you ever LIVED through a hurricane? It's not as much fun as they
make you believe on the weather report.

gloria p
Well... if you've ever been hit by a Category 3 you don't have to worry
about weather reports <g>. You won't have access to TV (or anything
else much) for a week or maybe more. Been there, done that, got the
T-shirt!


The three I remember well (1954-70) were before the days of "category" designations, I believe. All three of them wiped away the small weekend beach houses my parents built consecutively on land they bought after the previous owner was drowned in the '38 hurricane. The houses were smashed and carried inland on the waves and set down in the woods or marshes. The marshes were filled with appliance parts and propane tanks, pots and pans, shards of china and glassware. Large concrete seawalls vanished.

At least one of the storms (Carol and Diane are the names I remember) lifted commercial fishing boats from the piers and set one or two of them on top of the bridge across the Acushnet Rivers (in MA). That was also before the days of satellites so it was not known that there was a calm "eye" in the middle of the storm's rotation, followed by more heavy rain and winds. Huge trees were uprooted, houses on higher elevations were ripped from their foundations, lifted on the waves, and turned around or tipped over. It looked like the end of the world. Most shorefront properties weren't damaged, they were obliterated.


As was stated previously, we build residential structures here to withstand a *minimum* of 120 mph sustained wind.

That's all? My house here in way-the-heck-south-Texas is certified (by the state of Texas)to withstand 250 mph winds. Don't you people know about insulating concrete forms?

On the coast we build for 140 sustained, 160 gust.

I've had to remodel commercial structures and I'd estimate them to be resistant to a minimum of 200mph sustained.

Andrew changed Florida.




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