Architecture in the Northeast doesn’t understand horizontal rain like we do in the South. Snow loads? You bet. but driven rain, sideways, for 3 hours? Nope. It’s gonna seep around window seals and door jambs, etc.
If you put water up against a NJ/ NY/ CT residential structure at 40-50 MPH for 3-5 hours, and it is gonna get in. Too much hydraulic pressure, and too many gaps/ weaknesses in the seals and structure.
but driven rain, sideways, for 3 hours? Nope. It’s gonna seep around window seals and door jambs, etc.
If you put water up against a NJ/ NY/ CT residential structure at 40-50 MPH for 3-5 hours, and it is gonna get in. Too much hydraulic pressure, and too many gaps/ weaknesses in the seals and structure.
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ha — keep telling this to my daughter in Hoboken ...oh,she’s not the slightest bit worried, cuz it’s only a Cat 1 ...she just doesn’t get what the flooding and water will be like.
Can’t get it through to these kids ...
This is true. I'm from Texas. Hurricane Ike was very strong and wide and my town is 100 miles north of Galveston where it came in - didn't matter - the winds were sideways in my town and it went on for many hours.
After it passed, I accidentally found water on my stone floor under a kitchen window. That window was locked solidly down - didn't matter - the sideways wind forced itself under that seal and water was on the floor.
Have been through two other hurricanes here before Ike and didn't have the window water problem. Anyway, the next time I will put padding against that window to soak up water so it doesn't get on the wood window sill and floor.
Sideways rain, have seen plenty of it.
Architecture in the Northeast doesn’t understand horizontal rain like we do in the South. Snow loads? You bet. but driven rain, sideways, for 3 hours? Nope. It’s gonna seep around window seals and door jambs, etc.
What is done architecturally in the south to manage driving rain?