Posted on 09/06/2019 8:19:06 AM PDT by simpson96
(Meredith) - As Hurricane Dorian approaches the east coast of Florida, one woman is taking extreme measures to protect her home.
Brittany Vidal, of St. Augustine, wrapped her house in plastic and secured the barrier with duct tape and nearly 300 sandbags.
She considered elevating her house after it flooded during Hurricane Matthew and Irma. For now, she's relying on plastic wrap.
"Hopefully our barricade will do something for us this year," Vidal told WFOX-TV.
Vidal lives in the Davis Shores neighborhood, which is part of evacuation Zone A.
Zones A and B are comprised of nearly 149,000 people who were asked to evacuate ahead of the storm. Vidal said she plans to stay put for the time being.
Hurricane Dorian, now a Category 3, has been battering the Bahamas, causing extensive damage and flooding.
The National Hurricane center said Dorian is expected to move "dangerously close" to the Florida east coast late Tuesday through Wednesday evening and then move north to coastal Georgia and South Carolina on Wednesday night and Thursday.
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Tin foil would have been better
Bless her heart.
Dorian has pretty good taste so those tattoos will likely keep her away from this abode.
If it stays in place, and that is a very big if, it just might help. Somehow, I doubt using tape will secure it for long though. 8>)
I will make my own samich thank you
She is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
LOL!......................
maybe she is just a hoe
Wait until she all her money fly away when the winds hit 25 mph.
TGape alone no, but look at the picture. She has sandbags on top of the bottom of the plastic. It’s probably the top that is secured with tape.
Winds might blow it loose. But this might work if flooding is the primary threat.
I will make my own samich thank you
Now this is why I LOVE FREE REPUBLIC
OMG agree......LOL
Hmm, hope she doesn’t have any student debt.
A literal fart in a windstorm.
I guess she could have sat aback and done nothing.
And waited for you to show her the right way to do it.
An old Jeff Foxworthy skit about Redneck Engineering comes to mind...
ayep. that’ll do it...
What a ‘letdown’.
I was looking forward to a real life ‘bubble boy’ effect for an entire home...
Well at least she tried to do something for herself so that is a plus and beats all those that sit around wringing their hands and waiting for a government hand out right from the start...OF COURSE, if she has PRIVATE INSURANCE it would also ‘help’.
Florida...check
Tattoos...check
Overweight in tight gym shorts...check
She is missing a beer & cigarette, or she should
be high as Hell on meth.
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