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Any after pics? I’ve seen this everywhere but no after pics.
Yep! It made it.
Good for them!
The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.
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.
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.
Yeah but if a tree slams into the strap and breaks it
It'll trampoline off into the neighbor's house.
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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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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?
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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That ain't going anywhere.
- plucks ratchet strap as it's tightening - "Bb...B, C...Db, D, D, D...Yeah'p. At'll git er."
until the ground it's anchored to is converted into grassy diarrhea by the flooding
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As long as someone is shredding death metal guitar on the roof throughout the storm, I approve.
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slaps tightened straps "That's not going anywhere"
Those are the magical words that make it happen. The straps are just for show.
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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Uploaded 3 hours ago!
I seriously want to know how it goes with his house. I give him props for trying.
This is like congratulating Don Quixote for killing all the dragons.
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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Apparently, he's not the first, and it might actually have a chance of working.
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
Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.
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.
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.
It's not helping, but somehow I like the look of it.
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.
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This is extremely stupid. I was happy to see that most people here seem to immediately understand this.
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Optimistic
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.
I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out
Anyone claiming this is going to work has no idea how houses are constructed or how hurricanes cause damage.
It would prevent flat winds from removing the roof, for at least a little bit.
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They should have anchored it to that Toyota truck.
Cope rope
They missed the 25-foot waterproof wall, for the actual damage, the storm surge...
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This is actually not a bad idea
Lol it's a terrible idea. The wind would get a hold of those and they would essentially grind the roof away.
Better a damaged roof still attached to the house than a roof strewn a mile and a half downwind.
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