Apparently, he’s not the first, and it actually has 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.
If it keeps the roof on maybe it’s not so dumb.
No, it’s dumb.
Maybe they’re getting ready to move the earth to another place in space and didn’t want their house shifting around.
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.
Any after pics? I’ve seen this everywhere but no after pics.
Yep! It made it.
Good for them!
Optimistic
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
The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.
Ron White, is that you!?
They call me… Tater-Salad.
If your ass gets hit by a Volvo…
it’s* what the wind is blowing.
Hurricanes rip poorly built roofs off all the time. Builders get lazy and install the hurricane anchor things wrong. At least the local home inspector on Reddit used to say
I trust reddit posts too.
i would trust that redditor seeing how homes are often built lmao
In this case, I expect it’s going to be blowing those ratchet straps after they become unanchored, turning them into whips that’ll cleave the roof in half.
unanchored
whips
schrodingers whip. How is it both unanchored and a whip at the same time.
Two anchor points per strap.
The description for the picture says they are connected to big burried concrete blocks, so likely the house is gone before these straps get loose.
Yeah but if a tree slams into the strap and breaks it
It might break the roof. Those straps are nearly as wide as that truck’s brake lights, i don’t see them snapping so easily.
It’ll trampoline off into the neighbor’s house.
homie these straps are probably rated for a tree falling on it lol
Ok but what about 20 trees and a lot of debris?
ur house is probably part of the debris by then lmao
Those straps aren’t going to break.
Look man I’m not a sciencologist but if a big ol tree smacks into that strap maybe the strap doesn’t break but the metal tie downs? Idk man doesn’t seem like it would work out well for the house or straps
A 2" wide straps is supposed to fail at about 10,000 pounds/4500kg of static load. The nylon strap will fail long before the metal hardware does, and the roof is going to fail before either of those do. If a large enough object fell on the strap, the most probable scenario is that the strap would end up acting like a wire cutter to the roof.
I believe you
You could use those straps to lift a large tree up in the air with a crane
They should have anchored it to that Toyota truck.
Those vehicles and other debris will be flying into those straps.
for one, it’s a joke, second, if the truck is flying, the entire house and foundation are already gone lmao.
It’s not helping, but somehow I like the look of it.
I wonder what the vibration frequency of those straps is, once the wind is blowing through them.
Will they vibrate the roof into mush before they pull out of the ground and become metal ended whips?
As someone who straps, I felt this in my soul. God I hate that noise(I use tarp clamps for dampeners).
I’ve used a twist in the strap and that seems to help a lot.
Gotta be careful though, twist in the strap can ruin the strength limit of the strap if it’s under load
Someone tested this and found it to be basically not true. https://youtu.be/ifyJjQXOttE
This is how I was trained, yeah. No twists!!
Apparently this is a bit of a myth https://youtu.be/ifyJjQXOttE
Interesting. I was under the impression that the vibrations could be a problem if not twisted — apparently it’s a hotly debated topic, who knew! https://dccargo.com/blogs/strap-chat/to-twist-or-not-to-twist-cargo-straps
This is actually not a bad idea
Lol it’s a terrible idea. The wind would get a hold of those and they would essentially grind the roof away.
If it’s anchored into concert blocks, it’s not much different than internal hurricane straps that hold a roof on. They won’t move, or damage the roof, you don’t know that your talking about.
Better a damaged roof still attached to the house than a roof strewn a mile and a half downwind.
The surface area on those straps isn’t really going to grab the wind particularly bad. If the metal connection to the anchors actually holds up, it might actually do a little good.
But if there’s enough lift to pull that roof up without the straps, it’s almost certainly enough to snap the anchor connection, assuming the anchors themselves are deep enough to stay put.
More likely though is that these just snap and become hurricane whips with barbed ends.
Edit - or catch debris that snaps them before the wind even has a chance to rip the roof off.
The tonnage rating on those straps is insane. With relatively even force between them, they provide way more holding power than the roofs fasteners do. They would also help prevent that initial peel back that just creates a sail inevitably taking the whole roof.
Yeah, under ideal conditions. But shrapnel creating cuts, lateral forces from debris, cars rolling over them, etc. I see them loosening quickly at best.
But yeah, besides the whole risk of making barbed hurricane whips, it doesn’t seem quite as stupid as it looks. If they’re really lucky and only fight the wind itself, perpendicular to the roof, they might actually help.
Some friends of ours strapped down their roof for Hurricane Georges. They lived in a wood frame house on a hill and knew better than to just trust that everything would be ok.
Anyway, they still had a roof after the hurricane, but the winds were still strong enough to lift the roof up, damaging the joints between the rafters and the main posts holding the roof up. This damage I saw with my own eyes.
Wind shear can be remarkably strong at 140 mph, blowing across a roof like that. It would be a shame to lose the house because you didn’t take two hours to put some straps over it.
Maybe build with ICF ( insulated concrete forms).
Checkmate, nature.
