Et back to work East Coast

[TB Roye]

5.9 is nothing you need a good 6.5 or 7.0 to know an Earthquake. DC will use any excuse to leave early. Aren't they fun? At least California doesn't get Huricanes and Tornados and blizzards. We get Shake(earthquakes) and Bake(wildfires). Been through a few in my life but living where I do, have never had damage thankfully Eathquake insurance is to expensive, high premium and very high ductable, like 40K. This sounds and looks like the Media is overdoing it again.

Fasten your seatbelts

Tom

[Cochese]

EC earthquakes are different than WC earthquakes. Ground is more solid, quakes are usually nearer to surface.

[Russianwolf]

previous record for this area was a 2.8, 5.9 is a big upgrade.

I'm back at my desk and wondering if I'll get home, train service is suspended.

[sparkeyjames]

previous record for this area was a 2.8, 5.9 is a big upgrade.

I'm back at my desk and wondering if I'll get home, train service is suspended.

Well now that your back to work slacker ;-) it's time to look up the local bus routes and schedules.

[Russianwolf]

Well now that your back to work slacker ;-) it's time to look up the local bus routes and schedules.

I live 70 miles away.... local don't cut it.

My evac plan, if we have a major event here in DC again, is a two day walk up the C&O canal path.

[TB Roye]

Looks like you East Coasters better be worring about Irene. You people in Huricane country can you answer me 1 question that been bugging me.
Why is that no one seems to have shutters made to put up when a Huricane is forcast. Every one waits and then heads off the Lowes or HD to buy plywood. Wouldn't it be easer to makeup a set and have them ready? We have a cabin at 7500ft in the Sierras and we have shutters made to hang up when we close the cabin in October takes an hour up and hour to take down and this is a two story cabin.
What happen to the plywood after the storm?

Tom

[pelligrini]

You people in Huricane country can you answer me 1 question that been bugging me.
Why is that no one seems to have shutters made to put up when a Huricane is forcast.

Some are prepared: http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=51295
I've detailed roll up shutters for some houses Hawaii and Florida.

There's not much of anything exciting to show on the news about someone flipping a switch and watching their steel shutters roll down.

[dbhost]

On the hurricane / shutters issue. SOME homes are equipped with them, most aren't, and getting HOAs to approve variances to additions that radically change the appearance of a structure is like getting congress to do something productive... It happens from time to time, but it takes moving heaven and earth to get it done... Most of the sheet goods in my shop, are pre-cut, and drilled for storm protection panels... Mostly 1/2" plywood. cheap stuff, that was there when I bought the house...

If I had the $$ to build whatever I wanted, no HOA, and still had to stay in a hurricane strike zone, I would design in those steel rolling shutters... Along with hurricane rated insulated windows...

A LOT of older homes around here are getting retrofitted with the hurricane rated windows, and all new construction is required to have them. Even if I were to put up a shed with a window, it would be required to be storm rated to 150mph. Yeah right, I can build on a skid foundation, but the window has to be able to take 150mph impacts... Go figure.

As far as natural disasters is concerned, I have been through earthquakes in California, forest fires in Oregon and Arizona, mud slides in Oregon, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods in Texas, and nasty blizzards in Ohio... If I had to pick, I would pick an earthquake. They happen, and are over very quickly.

[chopnhack]

Hey Tom, don't you get typhoons on your coast? As for plywood, its not the best protection but its better than nothing. As someone already mentioned the media does better showing the drama of the lines at stores to buy things like plywood, food and water, its just more captivating. Many folks spring for the aluminum panels. They are substantially better and lighter to install.

[dangre]

As far as natural disasters is concerned, I have been through earthquakes in California, forest fires in Oregon and Arizona, mud slides in Oregon, hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods in Texas, and nasty blizzards in Ohio...

Man, you're bad luck wherever you go.

[pelligrini]

Man, you're bad luck wherever you go.

He needs to add 'Drought and Heat wave' to that list now.

[dbhost]

Thanks guys...

Not bad luck, I've just been around a long time, and over a wide area...

All of the events I mention are fairly commonplace in those areas...