vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
OUCH!
What Annoyed You Today? (1 Viewer)
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at6
1st Sergeant
Ow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That post makes my thumb ache.
Bucksnort101
1st Lieutenant
Yeah, tell me about it. I work with my hands all day as well, so that's been fun. Every once and a while I'll get a shot of pain up to my elbow and shoulder, which makes me thing it's just a strain. I sure hope so. Time to pick up a thumb splint and a cool pack.
Guess I won't be hitch-hiking for a while.
Guess I won't be hitch-hiking for a while.
at6
1st Sergeant
She'll eat your food, then take a poo, jump into your lap and leave a crap. her name is Roo. No wonder she's my foster dog and no one would adopt her as now I'm doing another load of laundry.
Thorlifter
Captain
Nothing annoyed me today, but it is only 7:29am so there is a vast myriad of annoyances available to me. Just waiting for the hammer to fall.
heaps to do at work....
Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
Still not a billionaire!
Hurricanes
Hurricane season needs to ****ing die and go away.
Looks like we are going to take a direct hit here where I live with the next one.
Hurricane season needs to ****ing die and go away.
Looks like we are going to take a direct hit here where I live with the next one.
Shortround6
Lieutenant General
Hopefully it craps out (weakens) before it gets to you.
Unfortunately with hurricanes it doesn't seem to be so much when but where/who gets hit.
I mean you know they are cumming (average 6.3 per year) so somebody is going to get hit.
Unfortunately with hurricanes it doesn't seem to be so much when but where/who gets hit.
I mean you know they are cumming (average 6.3 per year) so somebody is going to get hit.
This one will hopefully be no more than a Cat 1 when it hits, but all of the track models have it hitting us early Sunday morning.
My work annoys me. A few weeks ago they threw out my team leader and now everything is going to pots. Anyone in need of a good scientific programmer?
Crimea_River
Marshal
TransCanada kills Energy East, Eastern Mainline pipeline projects
Wanna invest in Canada's energy sector? Get a lottery ticket instead.
Wanna invest in Canada's energy sector? Get a lottery ticket instead.
Soon to be Hurricane Nate...
Looking at the pictures from the latest hurricanes, can building codes be improved to minimise the damage?
In America where houses are built out of particle board and plywood?
Yeah it can be improved...lol
I was thinking of something like houses built with a structure like a 20ft container as a basement, so a family can keep their possessions safe. A hurricane isn't an earthquake you get some warning. Or something like a concrete warehouse for cars so they could be hunkered down instead of being wiped out.
Shortround6
Lieutenant General
Trouble is in a lot of hurricane "country" (Florida, Carolinas, Alabama and whole gulf coast) if you dig down 3-6 feet you hit water.
Modern beach houses are built on stilts
doesn't mean you can ride out the Hurricane in one though.
Modern beach houses are built on stilts
doesn't mean you can ride out the Hurricane in one though.
Believe it or not SR where I worked in Saudi Arabia (outside of Dammam) if you dig down three feet you hit water too, they hit it trying to put in a concrete base for a new Charpy machine. What I meant is more use of engineering, use of concrete etc. Basically an attitude of that accepts hurricanes happen as a norm not that they are freak events.
Shortround6
Lieutenant General
You are quite right.
Many original beach houses were built either between the wars or just after WW II when A, land was cheap, and B. middle class families could reach the beach areas using cars. They weren't meant to be year round and in fact many of the older ones weren't much more than wooden tents. Wood Frame work, outer siding, no insulation, and no interior wall covering (exposed studs) Plumbing was primitive (bring your drinking water in jugs and a trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night might require shoes and a flashlight.) During the 60s, 70s, and 80s most of these were either converted to "year round", enlarged or torn down and replaced by much larger structures. However there wasn't much in the way of building codes governing storm damage. And we wound up with the cycle of build, storm damage, rebuild what was there with insurance money, storm damage and rebuild again.
It is only in the last 5-15 years that local governments have been redoing the building codes in shore areas. And usually existing structures are exempt. Only if you need a new permit for major renovations or repairs will you be forced by the government to upgrade. What your insurance company may require is a different story
Many original beach houses were built either between the wars or just after WW II when A, land was cheap, and B. middle class families could reach the beach areas using cars. They weren't meant to be year round and in fact many of the older ones weren't much more than wooden tents. Wood Frame work, outer siding, no insulation, and no interior wall covering (exposed studs) Plumbing was primitive (bring your drinking water in jugs and a trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night might require shoes and a flashlight.) During the 60s, 70s, and 80s most of these were either converted to "year round", enlarged or torn down and replaced by much larger structures. However there wasn't much in the way of building codes governing storm damage. And we wound up with the cycle of build, storm damage, rebuild what was there with insurance money, storm damage and rebuild again.
It is only in the last 5-15 years that local governments have been redoing the building codes in shore areas. And usually existing structures are exempt. Only if you need a new permit for major renovations or repairs will you be forced by the government to upgrade. What your insurance company may require is a different story
You can't have basements here. We are at sea level or below almost every where. I am sort of at the highest point for instance at about 6 feet above sea level. If you have a basement, it would be under water.
The main problem is storm surge, and a plywood and particle board constructed house like most houses here will not survive that, especially when the winds are also 110 mph and higher. Fortunately the house we are renting here is made of brick.
Most of the houses directly down on the coast line here and all the little barrier islands are all build on stilts.
