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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Florida man who strapped his entire house down ahead of Hurricane Milton becomes internet sensation
To appreciate this you'd need to ask him if the storm surge from the hurricane last week took out his whole inside... Maybe they had everything they owned piled on the curb last week for the trucks and it's gone now? Maybe he really really wants to keep his roof this time. Then again maybe he's just one of those people?
Well...... He didn't create the idea, plenty of people have screwed auger-anchors into the ground and used cargo straps to hold down houses and trailers. About 20 years ago I was upgrading a drilling rig in Louisiana, and we did exactly the same thing when a hurricane was forecast to come through. Used a skid-steer to auger in the anchors.
He might think about running 2x6's under the straps along the eaves and along the ridgepole, both sides, next time, to better distribute the loads.
I hope he makes it through, it's always great to see grit in action. Remember that guy in Mississippi that built a levee all the way around his house, and sat there, pumping it out continuously as he was surrounded by the flood? Worked, too. Grit.
For a little less than a year, I was the national sales manager for a wholesale hardware company. We mostly catered to security door manufacturers and other security related companies. We also sold aircraft cable. One of our biggest markets for this incredibly strong cable was in the Carribean. People used it to batten down their property (houses, boats, etc.) for hurricanes and tropical storms.
Down in Key West there are Victorian homes originally brought there by New England ship captains. As part of the assembly, cables were installed, going completely over the houses .
To appreciate this you'd need to ask him if the storm surge from the hurricane last week took out his whole inside... Maybe they had everything they owned piled on the curb last week for the trucks and it's gone now? Maybe he really really wants to keep his roof this time.
ReplyDeleteThen again maybe he's just one of those people?
Well...... He didn't create the idea, plenty of people have screwed auger-anchors into the ground and used cargo straps to hold down houses and trailers. About 20 years ago I was upgrading a drilling rig in Louisiana, and we did exactly the same thing when a hurricane was forecast to come through. Used a skid-steer to auger in the anchors.
ReplyDeleteHe might think about running 2x6's under the straps along the eaves and along the ridgepole, both sides, next time, to better distribute the loads.
I hope he makes it through, it's always great to see grit in action. Remember that guy in Mississippi that built a levee all the way around his house, and sat there, pumping it out continuously as he was surrounded by the flood? Worked, too. Grit.
Hopefully he "twanged" a strap and said "That's not going anywhere".
ReplyDeleteFor a little less than a year, I was the national sales manager for a wholesale hardware company. We mostly catered to security door manufacturers and other security related companies. We also sold aircraft cable. One of our biggest markets for this incredibly strong cable was in the Carribean. People used it to batten down their property (houses, boats, etc.) for hurricanes and tropical storms.
ReplyDeleteDown in Key West there are Victorian homes originally brought there by New England ship captains. As part of the assembly, cables were installed, going completely over the houses .
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