Hold the house down into the storm surge until it learns its lesson
Waterboard that bitch til it talks
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!
That’s amazing
Haha, yep - I’m just a guy.
a legend more like
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I’m not sure if you’re aware, but yes that’s what that’s been called for a very long time now.
They should have anchored it to that Toyota truck.
Those vehicles and other debris will be flying into those straps.
Apparently, he’s not the first, and it might actually have a chance of working.
Jesus Diaz was afraid the roof would blow off. And while the straps are gone, the roof stayed put. His home didn’t sustain damage, either.
Meanwhile the row of houses a street over that got raked with his modern-day chain shot are ravaged
Yeah 6 ratchet straps are really gonna make a differencein damage in a fucking hurricane…smh.
Optimistic
The murican level blowing the scale
Maybe build with ICF ( insulated concrete forms).
Any after pics? I’ve seen this everywhere but no after pics.
Yep! It made it.
Good for them!
I have that people post those and I don’t doubt they are real anymore.
Now I’m just curious about what shape those anchors have, due to morbid curiosity.
They’re just round and deep. Also, it really does work.
By “does work” you mean you don’t need to care about the anchors flying around and falling over you; you only have to care about the lines cutting you in half or that wood house breaking down when pressed against them?
If so, yeah, round and deep concrete tubes work.
They’re 8 foot deep concrete anchors according to the interview
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
I don’t know if this stupid or genius. Now I’m curious.
Checkmate, nature.
Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.
Unless there’s a footing these straps are being anchored to that I’m not seeing, I doubt it’ll do very much besides potentially acting as very dangerous whips.
There is a news video about it, it’s anchored to concrete and rebar 8 feet deep or something like that
You’d be surprized how strong an industrial screwed-in ground anchor holds. And it has to be anchored at the correct angle towards the load.
So, most likely, they will not just rip out, and they have a good chance to add a significant force holding down that roof.
If done properly, of course.
I’ve seen these deck strap things that you push way down into the ground and as you pull them up a little the flatten out and turn sideways. Really easy to install and harder than hell to pull out. I think it’s called an earth anchor maybe. I bet that’s what he used here.
ive always wondered why nobody does that with their mobile homes. seems like enough strapping would help minimize tornado damage if they were anchored deep enough
You’ve gotta remember that most mobile home communities are folks who own their units renting the land for use. This guy has custom concrete anchors, which a mobile home community property owner probably wouldn’t want.
then that mhcomm owner is a dumbfuck for not wanting his renters property protected
Why would he care? He gets paid either way, so he’s not going to give a fuck. Now, change the law so that he has liability…
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