logicallefty
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Yep I noticed that LOL
Hurricane Irma
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backseatjuan
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What's interesting in illianois? From your window?
sazc
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I didnt realize this thread was so active. I was just reading this on another board. If you are there, maybe it will help. Good luck to anyone who chooses to ride this out in place.
Scrolling around Friday (so not Friyay), we kept seeing advice about how to stay as safe as possible when Hurricane Irma rips through South Florida (H/T @Cata Balzano)
One really useful —and super easy — pro tip: Shut the doors.
According to the info packed website disastersafety.org, you need to close all the doors in your house. We’re talking bathrooms, closets, laundry rooms. Every one of them, inside and out. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety — which conducts studies in order to help consumers strengthen their homes and businesses against natural disasters and other causes of loss — found that during such intense hurricanes as Irma winds can rip through a house and cause immense upward pressure on the roof.Closing interior doors helps compartmentalize the pressure and cut down on the force on the structure that keeps your house intact — the roof.
“The roof is your first line of defense against anything Mother Nature inflicts on a home, and during a bad storm your roof endures fierce pressure from wind, rain, and flying debris that may be outside,” said Julie Rochman, IBHS president and CEO. “But the roof also must withstand internal pressure if winds get inside. The pressure in your home can build like air in a balloon, eventually causing the roof to fail and blow apart, which – particularly in a hurricane – allows water to come pouring in.”
Other great tips provided by the Disaster Safety site include check doors, windows, and walls for openings where water can get in. “Use silicone caulk to seal any cracks, gaps, or holes– especially around openings where cables and pipes enter the house.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article172007687.html
Scrolling around Friday (so not Friyay), we kept seeing advice about how to stay as safe as possible when Hurricane Irma rips through South Florida (H/T @Cata Balzano)
One really useful —and super easy — pro tip: Shut the doors.
According to the info packed website disastersafety.org, you need to close all the doors in your house. We’re talking bathrooms, closets, laundry rooms. Every one of them, inside and out. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety — which conducts studies in order to help consumers strengthen their homes and businesses against natural disasters and other causes of loss — found that during such intense hurricanes as Irma winds can rip through a house and cause immense upward pressure on the roof.Closing interior doors helps compartmentalize the pressure and cut down on the force on the structure that keeps your house intact — the roof.
“The roof is your first line of defense against anything Mother Nature inflicts on a home, and during a bad storm your roof endures fierce pressure from wind, rain, and flying debris that may be outside,” said Julie Rochman, IBHS president and CEO. “But the roof also must withstand internal pressure if winds get inside. The pressure in your home can build like air in a balloon, eventually causing the roof to fail and blow apart, which – particularly in a hurricane – allows water to come pouring in.”
Other great tips provided by the Disaster Safety site include check doors, windows, and walls for openings where water can get in. “Use silicone caulk to seal any cracks, gaps, or holes– especially around openings where cables and pipes enter the house.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article172007687.html
logicallefty
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Where is this picture from? It looks like a place on the Illinois River not too horribly far from where I live.What's interesting in illianois? From your window?
backseatjuan
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Show me!
Bible_Belt
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backseatjuan
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That comics guy is so bearded and bibly.
Atom Smasher
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My mother is actually flying back down today with my sister. Looks like the only damage was a small tree in the yard.
backseatjuan
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I was sceptical when I first heat about this thing, I forgot now when and from where. It looked liked it would go west. They always exagerate things on the news, it's bussiness. But on the other hand, if it hits, it's like sh1t will hit the fan, it will be nasty. In your case, condo, forget about everything, and stay in it. On the other hand if you have a house, you have to be thinking what kind of house, concrete, drywall, if latter, then move, otherwise fvck it.
P.S. Nobody in Russia builds a house from drywall, it's stupid. We do have wood tho.
http://sibirhouses.ru/?utm_source=g...MIqvK0qaSq1gIVhsmyCh2ZpwMTEAAYASAAEgKIsfD_BwE
P.S. Nobody in Russia builds a house from drywall, it's stupid. We do have wood tho.
http://sibirhouses.ru/?utm_source=g...MIqvK0qaSq1gIVhsmyCh2ZpwMTEAAYASAAEgKIsfD_BwE
sazc
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Homes in Texas are typically wood framed and then insulated, with brick on the outside and drywall on the inside. Drywall on the inside is then textured and painted to be appealing. Maybe there is drywall framing both sides of the insulation, I'm not sure.
Anyways, homes here are made out of brick, wood and drywall. Not just drywall.
Homes in Texas are typically wood framed and then insulated, with brick on the outside and drywall on the inside. Drywall on the inside is then textured and painted to be appealing. Maybe there is drywall framing both sides of the insulation, I'm not sure.
Anyways, homes here are made out of brick, wood and drywall. Not just drywall.
RichardTheFrog
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My power just came back on an hour ago.