This is horrible. View from the eye of the storm.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1168225769061044229

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? Has it hit Florida yet ? .

Thanx for sharing that video .

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WhY DiDn’T wE nUkE it!?’

#sharknado

No politics in here please

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I was watching some footage of a weather plane flying into a hurricane. How the heck did that first conversation take place?

Hey guys. I have an idea. Lets get a prop-jet ya see. We're going top load it p with instruments and stuff see. Um, who's going to fly it? Any volunteers?


https://youtu.be/a-SnxC-BkPo

I'll take a hard pass.

Gotta say it is pretty cool when they pass into the eye. Like flipping a switch.

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Wow, storm chasing .

In the late 1950's I watched a hurricane through a plate glass window after everyone else was hiding, it was amazing and as you said : when the eye of the hurricane passed it got *very* quiet and clear as a bell for a few moments .

Then the ferocious storm returned and I watched a 'V' shaped tree get twisted around itself by the wind, it was still twisted like that when we moved away in 1964 .

Looking at the news reports I feel baldy for the people in the Bahamas .

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Stayed at the cottage to watch the storm. About midnight it got very strong. Actually stated to think this had better not get much stronger. The large windows on the front of the cottage facing the wind had serious deflection. I was considering one could even blow in if it got much worse.


When I came home there was little damage inland in comparison. I did not know the wind speed. All I know it was scary going out to tie something down again.


After that I decided there was too high a risk out there. Any thing flying could really do you in. Thy forcast 110 kilometers and changed that to a maximum of 150 Kilometers. That is only about 90 miles per hour. I just do not know what to thing as the cottage also shuddered a little in the strongest gusts. I also built it very strong on a frost wall. We are elevated a little and face open water.

Good thing it was much less intensive after it blew the Bahamas to smithereens, eh ? .

My brother who lived in Maine sent me a storm watch link, it was amazing to see .

I hope your cottage is O.K. .

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Thanks. It really was starting to concern me though. For a time I even considered going outside to read the winds actual velocity. I keep one of our dwyer hand held wind gauges at the cottage from my sailing days. Then I thought that would be stupid. We actually overbuilt the place because of the location. Now I do not know if it could withstand a really bad hurricane. One gust shuddered the place. I crawled out of bed at 6am this morning and lit the wood stove. Most modern cottages either do not consider that the power could be out and the average generator cannot do much for heat. So a few neighbors dropped in for coffee early. Probably because they saw the wood smoke . That wind was followed by a cold front this morning.

When I got home I had to get our generator running for at least the large freezer. Of course I had to fix it first.


I think I will build some serious external window covers and store a steel brace for the large vertical wooden beam between them. As that beam was also defecting a little. Something that extends from the center point to the floor area of the wall behind it. The beam is solidly anchored at the bottom and twelve feet up.

The frost walls where constructed with a center frost wall as well. So the wall behind sits right on top of one. A portable four inch pipe could brace it well enough. The windows are eight feet wide and six feet tall. When I was building the place I looked out over the water and decided to bolt the roof on with threaded rod and washers etc. Just drilled right down through the 2x10 roof rafters and through the two top plates. Plus made certain the 5/8 inch plywood sheathing was extensively fastened to the top plates and studs.


I actually was attempting to guess the wind force on that glass and was wondering if the glass mounting restraints could hold it. I was thinking at least a ton of force on each window. If one broke them and came in either of those heavy thermopanes could kill someone.


Why am I concerned a little? The wind was really too strong to walk in and certainly noisy. I went out just before it got really bad to tie down something that had gotten loose from the restraint. Yet the wind was not screeching. Starting about eleven o'clock in the evening for a couple of hours was the bad period. It stll was not actually really screeching. I also questioned the accuracy of the barometer as it was even lower than I would have expected.


Most places suffered light damage near us. One neighbor told us his place was shuddering so bad it scared him. The power was restored earlier than announced at home. They told us Tuesday at noon was the estimate. It will be a few days at best until it is restored at the beach. The house is inland and I could tell it saw very little wind in comparison.

Glad to hear your cottage is still standing .

Many have no idea how powerful a hurricane really is .

I wish I had your knowledge and skills of buildings, my house needs it .

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Thanks but building new is usually not really that hard. Major renovations to me can be. You just try to employ the best known practices. Generally that will take you way past code in many areas of a build. .


It is not the regulations themselves. It is the people the regulatory agencies employ. In too many cases. Just getting a building permit. Is getting far too involved currently as well.


As for hurricanes and other severe weather. I never built or owned property That could be subject to flooding. Houses built on flood plains have always amazed me. Or the people that build them. They have to known there is no escape from flooding from time to time.


The tail end of this last hurricane was more powerful than normal here. Simply because the ocean is warmer this year. It should cool before the next one arrives.


I think what I really disliked. The weather people thought the potential of tornadoes in this region existed with that storm.

! you're right, I've had 3' deep water rushing past my house so fast & hard it swept away fully loaded 100 gallon trash bins ~ me I had no problems because my house is the highest thing on my lot .

I still have flood insurance because it's cheap as a rider .

We're closing in on TWO years out on my Sweet's house that a Foster boy burned us out of.....

Whew .

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