Posted on 10/13/2018 10:59:15 AM PDT by RevelationDavid
Great and yet horrible photos of Michael.....I fear that the death toll will be truly tragic.... Are there any Freepers that need help currently??
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I hope your dog is ok too
Did he get out? is that why you were worried he might have gotten run over by a car
I hope your dog is ok too
Did he get out? is that why you were worried he might have gotten run over by a car
I hope you grilled it for him first, he is gonna be sick
I wonder why all of these planes weren’t flown inland before the storm hit?
Photo # 11 reminds me of pictures I have seen of Hiroshima & Nagasaki after we nuked them.
See post 27.
He lives outside.
There is a store room he can get in if he needs to.
Actually I think he is dead.
Under repair and not flyable is the answer. Thanks.
Awful, thanks for posting. What are the weirdest to me are seeing shots of blocks of buildings just gone, yet an isolated one or two still stand. I shared this on FB, they are pretty amazing shots.
It appears to me that most of the damage other than that to the trees was caused by the wind directly. Trees falling do not lift roofs and spread them about the neighborhood. And the marinas were totally junked with no trees about.
What devastation photos. It makes you think, “Where do they start?”.
They should salvage all the lumber they can, it might be useful in the rebuilding process that lies ahead. There is bound to be countless doors, windows, etc that be reused.
If I lived in Mexico beach, I’d be looking for a new home.
My wife is from the Panhandle of Florida, and she’s always wanted to move back there (we live near Atlanta now) and buy a beach house...I don’t...and hurricanes are one of the reasons why. I lived through Hurricane Eloise there in the 1970’s and that was enough for me. I’m a Georgia (Landlubber) boy.
Godspeed those poor people who have been devastated by this storm.
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes,
when the waves turn the minutes to hours.”
“Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
I also noticed that when in hurricane struck areas. I assume shingles are more likely to have wind get under them and do to them what a fish scaler does to a fish.
Once the asphalt shingles are compromised, wind gets beneath the felt paper, everything peels away. Once the wind gets beneath the roof via failed soffit or broken windows, the unstrapped roof becomes a giant kite.
Concrete tiles seemed to fair better until a tile from your upwind neighbor's roof blows into yours and shatters several which in turn blow into your downwind neighbor's roof and shatter his tiles.
I saw that with the old ceramic tiles in St Petersburg after a storm way back when. Mostly they held better than anything else but if a couple came up they did a LOT of damage further.
Trees falling do not lift roofs and spread them about the neighborhood. And the marinas were totally junked with no trees about.
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Here’s what I’ve seen first hand. Trees will rub against a roof. They’ll knock off shingles and then the sheathing. Once there’s a hole and the wind gets in, the whole roof will come off. A broken branch hitting a roof can do the same thing. Debris from one destroyed roof can then be blown into other roofs. Sometimes these branches or roof debris will knock out a window or punch a hole in the wall if it isn’t masonry. The wind can get inside the house and then tear out walls or even blow the roof off. The debris from one house hitting another is like a domino effect. The first damage I’ve seen, though, is always the trees rubbing against the roofs.
Another bad problem I’ve seen is wind getting underneath porches. Once they lift up they peel the whole roof off. Most of the problems I’ve seen can be prevented. Keep trees away from homes and stay with something like Sabal palms, or plant smaller trees that don’t reach the roof.
As far as the marinas go, those things are built like old mobile homes over three stories high. Of course they suffered major damage. Some of the hangars at the AFB were built the same way.
That’s okay for houses among trees but does not cover the big buildings in the middle of parking lots which lose their roofs to the unaided wind and most of them did in this one. Videos show the wind pulling shingles off some houses with no trees about. The steel roofs almost all stayed put. Trees did punch holes through some of those roofs but there is much less there to repair than on the shingled roofs which often also lost their tar paper and sheathing, too.
That’s okay for houses among trees but does not cover the big buildings in the middle of parking lots which lose their roofs to the unaided wind and most of them did in this one. Videos show the wind pulling shingles off some houses with no trees about. The steel roofs almost all stayed put. Trees did punch holes through some of those roofs but there is much less there to repair than on the shingled roofs which often also lost their tar paper and sheathing, too.
Hangar Queens.
Although you'd think they arrange alternative transport when they knew a major hurricane was going to hit the area days out.
A 10kt airburst would do similar damage.
5.56mm
More (many) photos...wow.
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