Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.
Seems like a plausible strategy. If the roof is lashed down it can’t catch the wind and therefore is less likely to weaken over time and go flying. Certainly better than doing nothing.
With all these experts in the comments, I now want the original sauce and to follow up to see what actually will happen.
YouTube recommended a video of this to me yesterday. The straps are anchored with cement. Seems like it buys him X additional mph of wind speed compared to his neighbors. We’ll see if the winds are in that “more than a regular roof can handle but less than the straps can hold” range.
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
I wonder how deep those stakes are driven lol
On the surface, it looks as if they bored decent size holes in the ground and set the anchors in concrete. With a Bobcat, they could easily get 3 meter x 40cm holes; that’s 904kg of concrete at each anchor point, and a lot of friction.
This isn’t the stupidest idea I’ve ever seen; given that they can’t move their house, and set unlikely to move all their possessions for just a few days, Heck, it’s not a bad idea at all, and looks well-executed.
I guarantee it’s not deep enough. Hurricanes of this magnitude topple and uproot trees with massive root structures extending several meters underground. These type of DIY solutions are almost always create more hazard than they solve.
More than likely, if the straps are attached to cement blocks, the cement is deeper than the average depth of a tree root.
Those trees are also giant sails which transfers that much more force from the wind
Someone remind us of this works after Milton goes through this house.
For a 2k investment I’m willing to try it to save my home.
This is extremely stupid. I was happy to see that most people here seem to immediately understand this.
Uploaded 3 hours ago!
I seriously want to know how it goes with his house. I give him props for trying.This is like congratulating Don Quixote for killing all the dragons.
It’s congratulating Don Quixote for trying to preserve chivalric code, no matter how misguided it may be, with the result being better than what you’d think at first glance.
The murican level blowing the scale
slaps tightened straps “That’s not going anywhere”
Those are the magical words that make it happen. The straps are just for show.
I love that the straps are parallel to the trusses. only thing better would be watching those straps cut through the shingles, underlayment, and sheeting like cheese once winds hit 188mph.
pats roof
That ain’t going nowhere
This baby’ll hold a family of three
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did he die
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.
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.
I thought the same thing for awhile!
