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Ho Lee Sheet!
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:21 pm
by bio
We just had a major storm blow through here.
The winds were insane! They blew my sheets of T1-11 around the yard and stripped about 4' of shingles off my roof near the peak on the south side.
After things calmed down a bit (and much to my wife's dismay), I grabbed my hammer and nailbag, collected the shingles I could find, and went up and put them back on (I'm still missing one, but it'll work for now).
I have no idea what the wind speeds were, but I know they were in excess of 60 mph (97 kph).
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:58 pm
by Painted
You're a nut for going up there...your wife was right. I was scared you were gonna fall...thank gosh it was only the hammer...or else you would have found some nice scafolding (sp?) to break your fall...or at least part of your body.
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:00 pm
by bugfreezer
Yeah, I saw unit #2 spawn to the north of us. It sent some high speed our way before it ripped your house.
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:33 pm
by Painted
Yeah...I was driving home from Bio's and a tree was blocking my way so I had to go in the other lane to get around...
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:45 am
by eddiecanuck
I heard the winds were up to 75mph in some areas. No damage to our house, put our new vinyl fence to the test though and it's still standing. Thought we were going to loose the porch swing though, but it stayed put.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:02 am
by Painted
It was bad...my mom said somebody died because a tree fell on their house and crushed them. She heard it this morning. She slept through the whole storm though.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:45 pm
by bio
eddiecanuck wrote:I heard the winds were up to 75mph in some areas.
We officially had 77 mph (124 kph).
It's a new record.
Now... to find a good roofing company (ain't no damn way I'm doing it!)
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:11 pm
by Blownkisses_831
I fell asleep through it but when my friend athena came to pick me up to go to her house we got there and there was a massive tree branch that almost went through her sisters window and everything was just covered in dust it was way crazy
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:42 am
by Painted
I have to wash my car now...there is no getting away with it...it won't even look clean from 20 ft away.
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:43 am
by saki2mesue
My neighbors had sections of their fence that went down but other than that no big damage.