I hope you're well above sea-level. And that you don't have a gable roof!
It's probably too late to run for it now, though. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
(Too bad you can't go to the military retirement home that msnbc or cnn or somebody was talking about. From what they said that building was built for 160 mph winds.)
We are about 27 feet above here. Which is 2 feet higher than the predicted surge, but we *are* North of I-10 (I keep saying that like it's a good luck mantra). We have a pitched roof, that slopes down at the ends (for the life of me I can't remember what that's called.)
It's definitely too late to run for it. And the curfew starts at 9PM.
Funnily enough, my DH worked there for several years after we first got married. If he still did, I suppose that I *would* be there with him. It's very well built. But the guy on the Weather Channel lied. It's *not* a mile and a half in. It's right across Hiway 90 from the beach for goodness' sake. Although I suppose it might be a mile and a half from the front gate to the back edge of the property.
If there are four slopes it's a hipped roof, if there are only two it's the simplest form of a gabled roof. Although I suspect that they mean a house with multiple gables (like the house of seven gables...) where there are angles set into the roof which could mean weaker joints.
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Date: 2005-08-29 01:18 am (UTC)It's probably too late to run for it now, though. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!
(Too bad you can't go to the military retirement home that msnbc or cnn or somebody was talking about. From what they said that building was built for 160 mph winds.)
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Date: 2005-08-29 01:26 am (UTC)It's definitely too late to run for it. And the curfew starts at 9PM.
Funnily enough, my DH worked there for several years after we first got married. If he still did, I suppose that I *would* be there with him. It's very well built. But the guy on the Weather Channel lied. It's *not* a mile and a half in. It's right across Hiway 90 from the beach for goodness' sake. Although I suppose it might be a mile and a half from the front gate to the back edge of the property.
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:05 am (UTC)http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.nsf/pages/arch33
Those aren't the only types, actually, but at least there are pictures.
I found a second site which discusses roof types in windstorms:
http://www.flash.org/activity.cfm?currentPeril=1&activityID=182
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:11 am (UTC)Thanks for the links!
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Date: 2005-08-29 02:19 am (UTC)