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[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago

The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 84 points 2 months ago

In this case, I expect it's going to be blowing those ratchet straps after they become unanchored, turning them into whips that'll cleave the roof in half.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The description for the picture says they are connected to big burried concrete blocks, so likely the house is gone before these straps get loose.

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[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago

Hurricanes rip poorly built roofs off all the time. Builders get lazy and install the hurricane anchor things wrong. At least the local home inspector on Reddit used to say

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[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 73 points 2 months ago

I wonder what the vibration frequency of those straps is, once the wind is blowing through them.

Will they vibrate the roof into mush before they pull out of the ground and become metal ended whips?

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago

As someone who straps, I felt this in my soul. God I hate that noise(I use tarp clamps for dampeners).

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 54 points 2 months ago
[-] carbonari_sandwich@lemm.ee 47 points 2 months ago
  • plucks ratchet strap as it's tightening - "Bb...B, C...Db, D, D, D...Yeah'p. At'll git er."
[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

until the ground it's anchored to is converted into grassy diarrhea by the flooding

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[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago

pats the front door with my hands

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[-] Hux@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 months ago

As long as someone is shredding death metal guitar on the roof throughout the storm, I approve.

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

slaps tightened straps "That's not going anywhere"

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Those are the magical words that make it happen. The straps are just for show.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 38 points 2 months ago

If this homeowner is as good at tying down his house as the yokels around here are at tying down their cargo, then the odds are this house is somehow going to end up hitting my windshield.

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[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 months ago
[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago

Uploaded 3 hours ago!
I seriously want to know how it goes with his house. I give him props for trying.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

This is like congratulating Don Quixote for killing all the dragons.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

It's congratulating Don Quixote for trying to preserve chivalric code, no matter how misguided it may be, with the result being better than what you'd think at first glance.

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[-] drathvedro@lemm.ee 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Apparently, he's not the first, and it might actually have a chance of working.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jesus Diaz was afraid the roof would blow off. And while the straps are gone, the roof stayed put. His home didn’t sustain damage, either.

Meanwhile the row of houses a street over that got raked with his modern-day chain shot are ravaged

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unless there's a footing these straps are being anchored to that I'm not seeing, I doubt it'll do very much besides potentially acting as very dangerous whips.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You'd be surprized how strong an industrial screwed-in ground anchor holds. And it has to be anchored at the correct angle towards the load.

So, most likely, they will not just rip out, and they have a good chance to add a significant force holding down that roof.

If done properly, of course.

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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago

Someone remind us of this works after Milton goes through this house.

For a 2k investment I'm willing to try it to save my home.

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago

pats roof

That ain't going nowhere

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[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago

With all these experts in the comments, I now want the original sauce and to follow up to see what actually will happen.

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

YouTube recommended a video of this to me yesterday. The straps are anchored with cement. Seems like it buys him X additional mph of wind speed compared to his neighbors. We'll see if the winds are in that "more than a regular roof can handle but less than the straps can hold" range.

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[-] arc@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

Seems like a plausible strategy. If the roof is lashed down it can't catch the wind and therefore is less likely to weaken over time and go flying. Certainly better than doing nothing.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

If it keeps the roof on maybe it's not so dumb.

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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

It's not helping, but somehow I like the look of it.

[-] mayo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Holy shit all this time I thought The Picard Maneuver was an entire sub and thanks to that meme earlier I see you're an actual person. Finally clued in..

Good stuff too!

Also this seems like an idea worth trying. Cheap, maybe might work? Idk. I'm not inside hurricanes ever.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Haha, yep - I'm just a guy.

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[-] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago
[-] figjam@midwest.social 16 points 2 months ago

Hold the house down into the storm surge until it learns its lesson

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I love that the straps are parallel to the trusses. only thing better would be watching those straps cut through the shingles, underlayment, and sheeting like cheese once winds hit 188mph.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out

[-] superkret@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

They should have anchored it to that Toyota truck.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

This is extremely stupid. I was happy to see that most people here seem to immediately understand this.

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
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