"Were the trees in your neighborhood built to withstand a hurricane?"
Nope, trees fall over. But I have yet to see a tree that would flatten a subdivision house -- in the Houston area at least. Alabama might be different. But even if one of the trees next to my house fell on my house the most it would do is cause roof damage.
Flying debris? Even at 100 mph debris that hits the wall is not going to shatter it. In fact, during Alicia I did not see one window that got shattered by flying debris in my Forest Bend neighborhood. That hurrican blew up too quickly for most people to board up their windows, too. There was a lot of roof damage, but the only house that took serious structural damage was one that got hit by a tornado. One -- in a subdivision of about 150 houses. You are just as likely to get hit by one in Austin as in Katy.
There were some houses in that subdivision that got totaled, however. The ones near the creek that got flooded.
I just learned about a problem with the Lake Livingston dam. Does anyone KNOW what is going on with this? Is this release precautionary or is there a major problem?
Hi Freepers,
We survived the hurricane at Granny's in Pasadena unscathed, after returning from our 24 hour gridlock ordeal trying to get out of town. We returned home yesterday morning to find our home totally fine. We just got electric on in the last hour.
I am anxious to hear how everyone else did. I don't know if I will have time to read all of the thread.
Thanks for all your prayers freepers after we had that horrible situation trying to leave, and then having to come back. It all worked out for us to stay anyway.
We have hundreds of 100-foot tall 3-foot diameter trees here. You would be surprised about how much damage they can do to a house.