I like cold less than I like hurricanes (In both cases not much) and snow even less.
I feel that the Charleston, SC area is too far north for me. But, since my elderly mother is here, I am once again here, too.
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I feel that the Charleston, SC area is too far north for me. But, since my elderly mother is here, I am once again here, too.
Somewhat off topic, I received a Benz Micro Gullwing SLR from Sierra Sound, the new US distributor for Benz, at least new to me, on Sunday...
I was so distraught about Milton and the possibility of a major storm surge, that I put it away and didn't even mount it.
I'll wait a few days until my hands are steady enough, and see what's what. That's a first for me.
I was so distraught about Milton and the possibility of a major storm surge, that I put it away and didn't even mount it.
I'll wait a few days until my hands are steady enough, and see what's what. That's a first for me.
Secondary to keeping yourself, family and other loved ones, SAFE.
Would be some of your cherished possessions.
Fully understandable.
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This comparison doesn't quite add up. In the cold and snow, you can manage things by layering up with more clothes. But when it comes to hurricanes and tornadoes, you're pretty much at the mercy of the elements.
I wouldn't want to live somewhere where I know my home, neighbors, and family face a life-threatening situation every year.
It is hard to find a place that is free of natural disasters. We left Florida and hurricanes, only to have earthquakes on the west coast.
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I live in central Wisconsin and have few natural disasters, but it’s darn cold and the growing season is short (USDA zone 4a). Compromise is always part of life.
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This must be a huge weak point surely?
Oops! I guess it's a prototype
I'll bet those straps were singing!
Edit: Maybe it could be tuned with different strap tensions to create some lovely hurricane harmony?
I believe he said they were anchored 8' in the ground in a concrete footing. I'm quite curious as to how this worked out.
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Apparently it survived, but according to a thread on Reddit so did the other houses, as the hurricane wasn't as bad in Orlando?
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Yes, be prepared!
I'd be willing to bet that if it DID NOT work, we'd already know about it!
But getting warmer, and less snow each year. And these:
Just got my snow removal contract from my landscaper for this year
Getting to be less and less work for them each year, though.
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Power came back on this morning. Did some driving around yesterday, saw some large trees down next to a lake park. Primary tree damage in immediate area seems to be 6 inch diameter and smaller limbs busted off. One of my friends nearby got a 3 inch diameter limb through the ceiling in his living room. We were lucky at our house.
OMG that's tooo funny.
The damn tornados that accompany the hurricane seem to be more dangerous than anything.
During my 60 years in Chicago I was the victim of a couple tornados. My car crushed by a downed tree, Blown off the road in my car and on my motorcycle, damn things were always chasing me up there.
My brain must be a bit fried today. I made a pot of coffee a while back but forgot to put the pot back in place.
Then I had a whole pot to clean up off my counter and floor.
Yep, been there, done that. Hugo had 27"s of water in our 1st floor (on slab, the other half of the fist floor is up 3ft [we don't live in the City of Charleston, SC but they own the 6 ft wide easement next to us that had a 4 ft. wide, 3 ft. deep ditch on it, which for some reason] {in their idiotic City infinite wisdom} they had installed a 14" diameter pipe and filled it in) thus CREATING the flooding of 8 properties.
At any rate, a fallen tree poked a hole in the roof over the dining room on the second level (4 steps up) with the 3 ft + crawl space.
The insurance company fought their divisions about whether the moister in the crawl space from the flooding underneath the floor or water coming in from the branch sticking through the roof caused the floor to warp. This only took 2+ years for them to pay us. There was essentially no damage to the part of he ouse on slab, just a matter of getting the mud, shrimp & fiddler crabs out of that part of the house.
But the next door neighbors whose newer home (my parents designed and built our own home) is built 12 feet from the ground to the newer "Hurricane standards" had a section of it's roof ripped off and had WAY more damage than us.
There was no power for three weeks. The wind meter had broke at 183 MPH, so the wind gusted at least that high.
In Saipan, in 2014, we had 223 MPH gusts, only one person was killed (The lesson: don't hide in a building that has been designated as unfit to live in).
BUT: power was out for 4 months.
I'll go on that you can't truly prepare for "Mother Nature" because you cannot predict exactly and to what extent what she will do next.
Yup, exactly right. Ian was almost surreal in my neighborhood, I lost some patches of shingles - houses down the street lost the roof, and then the water does it's thing.
Your heart breaks when you see peoples belongings on the side of the road, and yet you yourself are unscathed.
Your heart breaks when you see peoples belongings on the side of the road, and yet you yourself are unscathed.
Well, usually the people doing the shooting are criminals that A. aren't allowed to have a gun anyway (from their already known to be criminal past [of course, because they are criminals, they don't care that they are not supposed to have guns) B. that the government did not properly do anything about anyway.
So, another government failure to do one of the few things that they are actually supposed to do: protect the general population from the ones that don't have the morale's to fit into our society.
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