No duct tape. 2/10. Would not trust.
in fairness, they did slap the roof and said “yehp, that’s not going anywhere.”
we’re not entirely sure of when the incantation was first made, but the magic behind it is still juuuust strong enough to do the trick.
Fair enough.
Anyone claiming this is going to work has no idea how houses are constructed or how hurricanes cause damage.
It would prevent flat winds from removing the roof, for at least a little bit.
Anywhere there’s wind strong enough to lift the ceiling off, is going to be debris flying around and smashing the roof into pieces.
Any pieces of the house which would stay grounded thanks to the straps would need to be replaced anyway.
The straps are probably tight enough that the roof needs to be refurbished after, even if the hurricane didn’t cause any damage.
That’s not even considering the likelihood of severe flooding.
House is fukked fam.
I’d rather replace a damaged roof instead of the whole structure and the resulting internal damage. Those straps are extremely strong. They can take a beating, but no doubt there’s debris that can destroy them. If something is big enough to do that, then the wind is the least of the roofs concerns, because the rest of the house is fucked. The possible pros definitely outweigh the cons of using them, even if the don’t end up working out.
No one is considering that the owner may have reinforced the roof from the inside either. Wouldnt be hard to determine where the straps are crossing the peak and add reinforcement to ensure the straps dont deform the roof, further adding to the structural integrity.
I find it so weird how people will spin a narrative based on assumptions and just disregard all the other possibilities.
If they buried concrete blocks, I bet you they had the presence of mind to reinforce the roof.
Tornados took the roofs off of many houses today across Florida.
I like to imagine them all getting shifted one house to the left.
A bit like the building at the top of Mount Washington
Cope rope
Optimistic
Checkmate, nature.
It’s not helping, but somehow I like the look of it.
That ain’t going anywhere.
At least until Milton casually tosses a tree at it.
I appreciate your optimism by using the singular…
I saw the documentary once. The order is Tree, Cow, Tractor, and finally another House.
You forgot fuel truck
Dang it. I always forget one.
Ha! I thought that sounded like a “Twister” movie reference.
Isn’t that the tornado safety video everyone got in high school?
- plucks ratchet strap as it’s tightening - “Bb…B, C…Db, D, D, D…Yeah’p. At’ll git er.”
pats the front door with my hands
until the ground it’s anchored to is converted into grassy diarrhea by the flooding
Concrete blocks 8ft into the ground
Holy shit all this time I thought The Picard Maneuver was an entire sub and thanks to that meme earlier I see you’re an actual person. Finally clued in…
Good stuff too!
Also this seems like an idea worth trying. Cheap, maybe might work? Idk. I’m not inside hurricanes ever.
I thought the same thing for awhile!
Haha, yep - I’m just a guy.
a legend more like
Your avatar made me pause and consider all the times Jean Luc pulled down on or readjusted his sweater… is that the real Picard Manoeuvre?
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but yes that’s what that’s been called for a very long time now.
That’s amazing
pats roof
That ain’t going nowhere
Maybe build with ICF ( insulated concrete forms).
This is actually not a bad idea
Lol it’s a terrible idea. The wind would get a hold of those and they would essentially grind the roof away.
The surface area on those straps isn’t really going to grab the wind particularly bad. If the metal connection to the anchors actually holds up, it might actually do a little good.
But if there’s enough lift to pull that roof up without the straps, it’s almost certainly enough to snap the anchor connection, assuming the anchors themselves are deep enough to stay put.
More likely though is that these just snap and become hurricane whips with barbed ends.
Edit - or catch debris that snaps them before the wind even has a chance to rip the roof off.
The tonnage rating on those straps is insane. With relatively even force between them, they provide way more holding power than the roofs fasteners do. They would also help prevent that initial peel back that just creates a sail inevitably taking the whole roof.
Yeah, under ideal conditions. But shrapnel creating cuts, lateral forces from debris, cars rolling over them, etc. I see them loosening quickly at best.
But yeah, besides the whole risk of making barbed hurricane whips, it doesn’t seem quite as stupid as it looks. If they’re really lucky and only fight the wind itself, perpendicular to the roof, they might actually help.
Some friends of ours strapped down their roof for Hurricane Georges. They lived in a wood frame house on a hill and knew better than to just trust that everything would be ok.
Anyway, they still had a roof after the hurricane, but the winds were still strong enough to lift the roof up, damaging the joints between the rafters and the main posts holding the roof up. This damage I saw with my own eyes.
Wind shear can be remarkably strong at 140 mph, blowing across a roof like that. It would be a shame to lose the house because you didn’t take two hours to put some straps over it.
Better a damaged roof still attached to the house than a roof strewn a mile and a half downwind.
If it’s anchored into concert blocks, it’s not much different than internal hurricane straps that hold a roof on. They won’t move, or damage the roof, you don’t know that your talking about.
The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.
In this case, I expect it’s going to be blowing those ratchet straps after they become unanchored, turning them into whips that’ll cleave the roof in half.
unanchored
whips
schrodingers whip. How is it both unanchored and a whip at the same time.
Two anchor points per strap.
The description for the picture says they are connected to big burried concrete blocks, so likely the house is gone before these straps get loose.
Yeah but if a tree slams into the strap and breaks it
It might break the roof. Those straps are nearly as wide as that truck’s brake lights, i don’t see them snapping so easily.
It’ll trampoline off into the neighbor’s house.
homie these straps are probably rated for a tree falling on it lol
Ok but what about 20 trees and a lot of debris?
ur house is probably part of the debris by then lmao
Those straps aren’t going to break.
Look man I’m not a sciencologist but if a big ol tree smacks into that strap maybe the strap doesn’t break but the metal tie downs? Idk man doesn’t seem like it would work out well for the house or straps
A 2" wide straps is supposed to fail at about 10,000 pounds/4500kg of static load. The nylon strap will fail long before the metal hardware does, and the roof is going to fail before either of those do. If a large enough object fell on the strap, the most probable scenario is that the strap would end up acting like a wire cutter to the roof.
I believe you
You could use those straps to lift a large tree up in the air with a crane
Hurricanes rip poorly built roofs off all the time. Builders get lazy and install the hurricane anchor things wrong. At least the local home inspector on Reddit used to say
I trust reddit posts too.
i would trust that redditor seeing how homes are often built lmao
Ron White, is that you!?
They call me… Tater-Salad.
If your ass gets hit by a Volvo…
it’s* what the wind is blowing.
moving house
If it keeps the roof on maybe it’s not so dumb.
No, it’s dumb.
