08-27-2017, 04:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-27-2017, 05:00 PM by Di Wundrin.)
Quote:Not sure why my post was confusing.
It was pretty straight up shit
Not your fault, I just don't speak math.
Re that house damage thing, the maths need common sense applied to them when building to withstand the weather.
I mentioned the old (some 100 years old now, they're STILL standing!) fishermans cottages in Red Rock. They looked like shacks but had pole corner posts sunken 6ft deep into the ground where it was sandy. Some were as deep as they were high! You had to duck your head to get into some.
The normally 'windward' walls were braced on the inside twice as much as the leeward walls. They were built a bit like ships really. The roofs were low peaked and not just plonked on top of the frame but incorporated into it. They were rough as guts, and the timber was low grade, uneven and whatever was cheap and easy to transport on a cart, but they knew how to fasten them together.
There was an amazing lack of debris after cyclones in that little village. The odd sheet of tin off a shed roof, an overlooked garden chair in a tree, only plenty of vegetation scattered around.
There were very few trees over 15-20 high around there they just got 'pruned' by the wind.
But when the rain stopped and the clouds cleared it only took a few hours to clean up the branches and mop out any leak damage and everyone just went fishing again.
They were underappreciated, amazing old houses.
I did see a clip of Harvey last night of two women telling us in all sincerity that God had told them they had to stay in their house so they'd be on hand to help others after the 'storm'. (their house was flattened) and in the background, among all the debris there stood an old blue house that was so reminiscent of those in Red Rock it immediately took my attention. It was standing there undamaged, wondering where all it's younger neighbours had gone.