hurricane poll

[shimsham]

since everyone has such strong opinions and knows what went wrong, where, and who is to blame, i thought id put up a poll to see who has actually dealt with a major hurricane.

edit: major as in cat 3 strength

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Never. I don't think I've ever even experienced winds over fourty miles an hour.

 

[FoBoT]

why would i live in a hurricane area?

i wouldn't live in CA either, too many earthquakes

 

[Ryan]

I live in Panama City - so yes......

 

[Chompman]

Wi doesn't get many of those but now if you were looking for winter storms this is the place to be.

 

[judasmachine]

I live in northwestern tx, and am waaaay too far from the coast, so never. Seen craploads of tornadoes though.

 

[Mrvile]

I've lived in southwestern and nothern US, so hurricanes have never been a problem.

 

[shimsham]

^

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: shimsham
since everyone has such strong opinions and knows what went wrong, where, and who is to blame, i thought id put up a poll to see who has actually dealt with a major hurricane.

edit: major as in cat 3 strength

I know what the problem was... the dumbasses who live in areas that are known for hurricanes year after year..... if you live in a town where 2 tornadoes have come through in 50 years, its not a major risk, but if 5 come through every year, move the hell out

 

[MBentz]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
why would i live in a hurricane area?

i wouldn't live in CA either, too many earthquakes

I've lived in CA for almost 19 years now... haven't felt an earthquake yet.

 

[aphex]

FL resident here.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: shimsham
since everyone has such strong opinions and knows what went wrong, where, and who is to blame, i thought id put up a poll to see who has actually dealt with a major hurricane.

edit: major as in cat 3 strength

I know what the problem was... the dumbasses who live in areas that are known for hurricanes year after year..... if you live in a town where 2 tornadoes have come through in 50 years, its not a major risk, but if 5 come through every year, move the hell out

so i can assume, since youre in wi, that you voted no?

 

[MetalMat]

Yeah, I live in cajun country in South Louisiana

 

[Willoughbyva]

I live in southern virginia and have had to deal with the remnants of hurricanes. Two years ago I lost power for 11 days. We didn't get a whole lot of damage at my place, but the surrounding area was messed up pretty bad. I live about 70-100 miles from the coast.

 

[xSauronx]

i was born in eastern north carolina and have lived here all of my life, im 22. ive seen a few, hurricanes suck, floyd, i think, left us with the worst flooding.

i live in a city built beside a river, flooding sucks, i dont want to imagine what things would have been like had Greenville been the size of New Orleans.

and below sea level

and requiring a wall to keep the nearby lake from flooding the town to start with.

 

[marvdmartian]

I lived in Guam (US territory) for 7 years, and went through tropical storms and typhoons a plenty!
For those that don't know, tropical storms that attain sustained wind speeds of 75+ knots are called hurricanes in the Atlantic & Eastern Pacific oceans, Typhoons in the Western Pacific (the international date line is pretty much the dividing line), and Tropical Cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere.
The typhoons I've been through have pretty much been all the way through the strength spectrum, all the way from what's commonly termed a "Banana" Typhoon (category 1 strength, just strong enough to shake the bananas off of the trees ), through to a category 5 "Super" Typhoon (Paka, in December 97.....sustained winds of ~180knots, with gusts over 200knots). You can do a google search for "super typhoon paka", if you're so inclined.

The biggest difference is that Guam used to get slammed by typhoons. But after a super typhoon in 62 (Karen) and 76 (Pamela), they got tired of constantly rebuilding, and did what needed to be done. They changed the building codes to make it nearly impossible to build with wood, and made it so people rebuilt with reinforced concrete. There's still some older homes that have wood & corrugated sheet steel roofs, but for the most part there are NO wooden homes left in Guam. In fact, I had a friend I worked with there, who rebuilt after the typhoon in 76, and built with bolted together phillipine mahogany (a lot cheaper there than here). His house lasted through every storm UNTIL typhoon Paka hit in 97, and then was flattened like it had been razed by a bulldozer!!

So yeah, I've been through a half dozen or more storms, more if you count tropical storms, and learned one thing. You can survive a strong hurricane (typhoon, cyclone), but you're a LOT better off having built with reinforced concrete than if you built a wood framed house (or even a steel structure, since those tend to lose their skins during storms). Shoot, if nothing else, just think of the 3 little pigs story......who got eaten by the Big Bad Wolf (who blew and blew until the houses fell down), and who lived? I'm just amazed that the governments of the states along the gulf coast and up the eastern coast (that are affected by hurricanes) haven't changed their own building codes. Too bad! :brokenheart:

 

[lobadobadingdong]

never, I'm smart enough to stay off the coast.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian
I lived in Guam (US territory) for 7 years, and went through tropical storms and typhoons a plenty!
For those that don't know, tropical storms that attain sustained wind speeds of 75+ knots are called hurricanes in the Atlantic & Eastern Pacific oceans, Typhoons in the Western Pacific (the international date line is pretty much the dividing line), and Tropical Cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere.
The typhoons I've been through have pretty much been all the way through the strength spectrum, all the way from what's commonly termed a "Banana" Typhoon (category 1 strength, just strong enough to shake the bananas off of the trees ), through to a category 5 "Super" Typhoon (Paka, in December 97.....sustained winds of ~180knots, with gusts over 200knots). You can do a google search for "super typhoon paka", if you're so inclined.

The biggest difference is that Guam used to get slammed by typhoons. But after a super typhoon in 62 (Karen) and 76 (Pamela), they got tired of constantly rebuilding, and did what needed to be done. They changed the building codes to make it nearly impossible to build with wood, and made it so people rebuilt with reinforced concrete. There's still some older homes that have wood & corrugated sheet steel roofs, but for the most part there are NO wooden homes left in Guam. In fact, I had a friend I worked with there, who rebuilt after the typhoon in 76, and built with bolted together phillipine mahogany (a lot cheaper there than here). His house lasted through every storm UNTIL typhoon Paka hit in 97, and then was flattened like it had been razed by a bulldozer!!

So yeah, I've been through a half dozen or more storms, more if you count tropical storms, and learned one thing. You can survive a strong hurricane (typhoon, cyclone), but you're a LOT better off having built with reinforced concrete than if you built a wood framed house (or even a steel structure, since those tend to lose their skins during storms). Shoot, if nothing else, just think of the 3 little pigs story......who got eaten by the Big Bad Wolf (who blew and blew until the houses fell down), and who lived? I'm just amazed that the governments of the states along the gulf coast and up the eastern coast (that are affected by hurricanes) haven't changed their own building codes. Too bad! :brokenheart:

good post. they have changed the codes around here tho. i know that andrew prompeted some code changes, and they changed again around 2001, i think. my good friend built a house in 2002, and he said it was up to the new codes.

around here during ivan, it was easy to spot the older houses from the newer ones. newer ones had better construction and less damage. of course, once you get to a certain point, and depending on your rise above local waters, there really isnt any code that can save your ass.

 

[BUTCH1]

FL resident, generator owner...

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: shimsham

since everyone has such strong opinions and knows what went wrong, where, and who is to blame, i thought id put up a poll to see who has actually dealt with a major hurricane.

The problem is that most ATOT posters are teenage boys who already know everything.

 

[Shawn]

yuppers.

 

[GamerExpress]

You need to add some more choices to your poll, I have been in a few Hurricanes. I don't live in the SE anymore though, I live in NC on the coast, also I live in Ft. Lauderdale in FL.

So yes I have been through it a few times, and I am not a teenage boy thanks.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: GamerExpress
You need to add some more choices to your poll, I have been in a few Hurricanes. I don't live in the SE anymore though, I live in NC on the coast, also I live in Ft. Lauderdale in FL.

So yes I have been through it a few times, and I am not a teenage boy thanks.

eh, nc is the se.

the poll isnt worded perfectly, but anyone living int he se has to deal with the hurricanes. i changed to encompass all the se, since it wasnt clear on that.

 

[GamerExpress]

Originally posted by: shimsham

Originally posted by: GamerExpress
You need to add some more choices to your poll, I have been in a few Hurricanes. I don't live in the SE anymore though, I live in NC on the coast, also I live in Ft. Lauderdale in FL.

So yes I have been through it a few times, and I am not a teenage boy thanks.

eh, nc is the se.

the poll isnt worded perfectly, but anyone living int he se has to deal with the hurricanes. i changed to encompass all the se, since it wasnt clear on that.

Sorry that was a typo, i "lived in NC" I don't anymore.

 

[sharkeeper]

tropical storms that attain sustained wind speeds of 75+ knots are called hurricanes in the Atlantic

If you're dealing with nautical miles per hour (aka knots) once the sustained winds reach 65 knots it's a hurricane.