• Bahnd Rollard
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    982 months ago

    The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.

    • lemmyng
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      842 months ago

      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.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 months ago

              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

              • @[email protected]
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                112 months ago

                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.

          • Fubber Nuckin'
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            82 months ago

            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.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        22 months ago

        unanchored

        whips

        schrodingers whip. How is it both unanchored and a whip at the same time.

          • KillingTimeItself
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            11 month ago

            if one of them goes, the other is pretty likely to go as well. Unless you just didn’t secure it properly, in which case skill issue.

    • @[email protected]
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      502 months ago

      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

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            That particular redditor had a long history of weekly posts with the shitty home builder work they inspected, but I hear the argument, I have no evidence other than hearsay and didn’t research it myself.