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FlexGunship
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Chi Meson said:4am and the power just went out. Am txtng from phone. Must remember to use vowels. (wow the phone puts them in for me)
Trees r doing the Crazy.
lol@chi
Chi Meson said:4am and the power just went out. Am txtng from phone. Must remember to use vowels. (wow the phone puts them in for me)
Trees r doing the Crazy.
Uh, no they don't! Maybe if you absolutely have to be outside, but you're still better off inside a building.FlexGunship said:EDIT: I'm actually considering going out for a drive. Only because I want to experience more of this. I know it's stupid, but I feel a little ripped off. They say the safest place to be during a hurricane is your car, right?
:rofl:Jimmy Snyder said:S&P has downgraded Irene to AA+.
No responsible person would say that. The safest place is in a strong building. Houses would be better than cars, but high winds can damage houses, or send trees into them. Cars can be easily crushed by trees or branches as some have found out already. Cars can be flooded or tossed around in high enough winds.FlexGunship said:They say the safest place to be during a hurricane is your car, right?
FlexGunship said:I feel a little ripped off.
Ivan Seeking said:Me too. If I have to watch this much news coverage of an event, you guys could at least provide a few decent disaster scenes.
Astronuc said:No responsible person would say that.FlexGunship said:They say the safest place to be during a hurricane is your car, right?
Car = Dead.Officials say that at least two people have been found dead in New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. ...
“She left her house, went in her car and was swept away"
The Salem County woman had called 911 after her car had been washed away by a flash flood. The woman, who has not been publicly identified yet, was found dead in her car around 9:30 a.m.
According to Jack Burns, director of Hudson County's Office of Emergency Management, a man was found dead shortly after 10 p.m. in Kearny, but no other details have been released about that yet.
Astronuc said:I just checked the basement sump, and it's taking two streams of water, each about a gal/min. That then is pumped out to the right of way along the street, which is now a pond. Better to have a pond in the front yard than in the basement.
FlexGunship said:lol@chi
RonL said:http://www.fema.gov/news/disaster_totals_annual.fema
Pick your year, pick your state, pick your disaster, go to pictures and look to your hearts content.
While every disaster is different, they all look much the same.
Much wisdom by most and a storm that fell apart (thank goodness) premature, the major damage will be flooding inland.
Redbelly98 said:Supposedly the tape helps contain the glass fragments when the window breaks.
Encarta said:I don't think it would.
The tape would change the natural frequency of the glass. But what if it changed it to match the wind?Encarta said:I don't think it would. But, what about this: The windows of one's house could resonate to the natural frequencies of the winds outside, causing it to break. Does that sound like a dubious claim at all?
Ivan Seeking said:Why?
Redbelly98 said:Supposedly the tape helps contain the glass fragments when the window breaks.
Encarta said:I don't think it would.
It's not to prevent breakage, it's to better contain the breakage (according to the above source).Encarta said:Criss-crossing duct tape on windows, I fail to see how it could prevent debris or even strong winds directly blowing against the window pane from breaking it into a thousand different pieces.
Dadface said:Taping windows also gives some protection against bomb blasts.The method has been used for many years for example during the blitz of world war two.
You do a fair amount of criscrossing, you don't just make an X and you should use masking tape, I pity the people that put duct tape on their windows. It's only for helping with pickup of broken glass, and it does prevent the glass from flying. When did the myths about it strengthening windows or this frequency BS start? Oh yeah, the internet... :uhh:Encarta said:Be that as it may (although it still sounds far-fetched), I don't think that's just by criss-crossing windows.
I care. No way do I want that stuff in South Jersey.Evo said:A black walnut tree broke in half last month in a thunderstorm. One place got wind gusts over 100mph. But we're in Kansas, so no one cares.