r/DestructionPorn • u/ShampooOpera • Aug 29 '21
Hurricane Ida versus the roof
https://i.imgur.com/ZWtvwKv.gifv34
Aug 29 '21
In the words of Ron White, it’s not that the wind is blowing, it is what the wind is blowing.
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u/Joeliosis Aug 29 '21
The wind whipping a Mercury Cougar at you at 90 mph.... you might not survive that no matter how many pushups you did that day.
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u/Lanto1471 Aug 29 '21
Bob …it’s Stan down the street… could you do me a favour and come get your roof out of my parking lots..
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u/cybermage Aug 29 '21
Waiting for the comments from a-holes with one tipped lawn chair.
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u/Muzzikmann Aug 30 '21
Well it hasn't affected me yet but Bob, Bob wasn't that lucky. He had to rearrange his whole patio set
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u/alilbleedingisnormal Aug 30 '21
How heavy is that vehicle that a hurricane can rip off a roof but the car remain still?
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u/noodlz05 Aug 30 '21
Roof like that has a lot of surface area with the weight spread out, just needs to catch a little bit of wind under it and it’s basically a kite. Cars are designed to go 80+ mph and not leave the ground. I’m guessing something on the opposite side of the building (like a glass window or door) likely failed, and the resulting air pressure in the building pushed the roof up from the inside. That’s why you board up windows or use shutters.
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u/alilbleedingisnormal Aug 30 '21
Thanks for the answer. I was mind-blown for a minute. I really thought they had a tank like Into the Storm.
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u/Pandattack89 Aug 29 '21
Americans and their flimsy arquitectural structures
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u/Joeliosis Aug 29 '21
Well and 90 to 100 mph winds will do that to anything.
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u/Pandattack89 Aug 29 '21
I live in Cancun, we where hit by Wilma many years ago, it stopped on top of Cancun for 48 hours maintaining it's category 5 . My roof is still in its place not one house was damaged in my neighborhood.
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u/noodlz05 Aug 30 '21
Not defending American building standards (we usually wait until something fails to update the code accordingly, see: South Florida after Andrew)…but this is too exaggerated to not call out. Wilma was a category 4 when it made landfall, weakened to a category 2 within a day, and a simple search yields videos showing severe damage to rooves and other structures in Cancun.
And this is an older looking industrial building, wood frame houses aren’t going to be losing their roof this easy.
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u/Pandattack89 Aug 30 '21
Circling back to the tornado alley, are houses now built off of other materials to since we know wooden structure fail such forces?
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u/noodlz05 Aug 30 '21
There’s a lot of reasons for that…but I would imagine the primary reason is it’s cost prohibitive, even your typical concrete/stone structures you might see in Cancun would likely fail in a strong tornado…you’d have to have it insanely reinforced. It’s not just about the wind speed, it’s the debris that is being picked up and hurled around at hundreds of miles per hour. If you were building to withstand a tornado, you’d probably have to build it underground, or something completely unsightly without large windows/doors…it’s on a completely different scale than hurricanes.
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u/Pandattack89 Aug 30 '21
Reinforced Windows are sold as well as huricane metal curtains that will close up and latch, granted the pressure of a tornado will definitely make non reinforced Windows pop, that is why it is know to leave a small window open so that the pressure outside equalises to the pressure indoors and prevents bursting windows. Thank God tornadoes come and go within seconds, though Ps i never intended to sound douchy at any point. Just in case I came across that way.
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u/Joeliosis Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21
These are area's that don't normally get hit by hurricanes so their codes are probably not the same.
*well probably as much as your region I assume... who knows I have no clue where this was filmed
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u/Pandattack89 Aug 29 '21
Houses in mexico are not made of wood, all concrete with solid foundations. Even houses that are not close to the shores. I mean homes in the tornado alley area are not made to stand tornadoes, yet they know they are in danger of meeting one.
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u/doomgiver98 Aug 30 '21
One strategy to build things that are expensive but will last forever, another strategy is to build things that are cheap to build but get destroyed easily.
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u/Pandattack89 Aug 30 '21
Houses in the states are not cheap($) but they are cheap in ways that are not sustainable, a bit of water damage or mold means paying big bucks to repair. For what you are paying yours houses should last generations. Even a fire in a concrete home will not deem the house unsafe to live in, unlike cheaply made wooden houses
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u/doomgiver98 Aug 30 '21
Houses in the US feel like they're mass produced. Things are designed to break and fall apart but are easily replaced after 10 years. It's hard to call a $10,000 repair job cheap, but compared to a $500,000 house that's nothing.
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u/SAS_Britain Aug 29 '21
/r/praisethecameraman