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To: Qwapisking

“Florida...their first direct hit Hurricane”

Florida houses for the past 30 years have been designed and built to handle worst-case hurricanes.

Older houses are being retrofitted with truss straps.

Some houses like mine built in 1978 have their trusses (and truss plates) connected by spikes to straps embedding in wall concrete. I will add the code-specified truss straps when I reroof my house.

People who live in a flood zone will generally be wise to flee even if their house is built or retrofitted to an updated code.

When fleeing don’t wait until the battery is low. Pick a ready-to-use charging place before the battery gets low. Charge in say metro Orlando and don’t wait to get to Ocala where chargers might not be available.


25 posted on 06/12/2024 5:05:56 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

How can you “handle a worst-case hurricane”? There is no predicting wind speeds of the worst possible hurricane, not even by those of Hurricane Patricia (215 mph).


45 posted on 06/12/2024 12:34:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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