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triton115 (October 9, 2008 at 1:42 am)
Obviously, some of the worst construction came in the 1980s; 2 story wood frame homes with huge wide span windows and gable end roofs that literally catch wind like a sail! I even heard some were not properly bolted to their foundations and when Andrew hit, a lot of these flimsy homes literally slid off their foundations, and most of them simply crumbled like a tower made of cards.
triton115 (October 9, 2008 at 1:34 am)
I got other things I really gotta say; we really learned some painful lessons in building practices from Hurricane Andrew. First of all, the best type of residential construction for hurricane regions is single story concrete block structures with small to medium sized windows (none of those big wide span "picture windows", of course) that are either made of impact resistant glass, or have hurricane shutters and hipped roofs that are sloped no less than 35 degrees from horizontal.
apurrfectkittie1019 (October 1, 2008 at 2:48 am)
That was a hell of a night! I was only 8 but I could never forget that. I spent the night in the tub with my Mom and my kitten with a mattress over us, while her boyfriend laid with his head at the tub and his feet hold the door shut. I will never forget the sound of the freight train. This guy was insane!
triton115 (September 29, 2008 at 7:34 am)
Replying to blackout010's post here.
triton115 (September 29, 2008 at 7:32 am)
Yes, of course. David E Fisher's house for instance. (author of the book "The Scariest Place on Earth".) Plus at least one or two nice sized neighborhoods of concrete block structure houses seen from WTVJ's news helicopter in the video "Hurricane Andrew as it happened".
sliskigt (September 24, 2008 at 8:13 pm)
the day i was born
Bass734 (September 24, 2008 at 12:59 pm)
This vid is great- GJ
Bass734 (September 24, 2008 at 12:43 pm)
I wish they had a crew in my house that night-much worse than the vid. I was at 152St and 137Ave. Our house was destroyed from the start. I was convinced that I was going to die. The pressure was horrible and..... The wind blasted with atomic strenth. I screamed and couldn't hear myself. I had to tie myself to the pluming with bungie and mat not to fly away. I had to use my legs to push against other pipes with all my might 30 sec at a time with each blast. Its a miracle I'm alive, a miracle.
EF5Chaser (September 23, 2008 at 6:53 pm)
Incredible!
TurboGSR96 (September 21, 2008 at 3:40 am)
Katrina's surge was not totally devestating, if the levee's would of held Katrina would of been long forgotten. |
