Earlier this summer, we attended an AARP seminar on hurricane preparedness. They warned us of forecasts saying we would be getting more hurricanes in Hawaii.
Then I saw on a weather news clip that because we're out of the El Nino weather pattern, we should experience less hurricanes.
Then I saw another forecast saying we'd be having more hurricanes.
Arrrghhh!
Ah well, we'd hired a company to come and add more hurricane clips to the older part of the house anyway.
Art thought he could install them himself but after seeing the professional nailing gun the installer was using, we're happy we hired them to do it.
The hurricane clips are under 50 cents a piece, so you're pretty much paying for labor.
It took them half the day to install the clips.
What a surprise that the primed clips were the exact gray color we had our house painted earlier this summer.
We're quite pleased that it's done.
We have hurricane barriers we've also signed up for.
And I've got a whole bunch of Cup Noodles, canned veggies, pudding cups, water and I forget what else in storage.
Hurricane season in Hawaii runs from June 1st until November 30th.
Fingers crossed that we won't need all this preparation.
Then I saw on a weather news clip that because we're out of the El Nino weather pattern, we should experience less hurricanes.
Then I saw another forecast saying we'd be having more hurricanes.
Arrrghhh!
Ah well, we'd hired a company to come and add more hurricane clips to the older part of the house anyway.
Art thought he could install them himself but after seeing the professional nailing gun the installer was using, we're happy we hired them to do it.
The hurricane clips are under 50 cents a piece, so you're pretty much paying for labor.
It took them half the day to install the clips.
What a surprise that the primed clips were the exact gray color we had our house painted earlier this summer.
We're quite pleased that it's done.
We have hurricane barriers we've also signed up for.
And I've got a whole bunch of Cup Noodles, canned veggies, pudding cups, water and I forget what else in storage.
Hurricane season in Hawaii runs from June 1st until November 30th.
Fingers crossed that we won't need all this preparation.
Congratulations on being so well prepared.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the season will end with your clips never being tested. One of the government organizatios did testing on those.
ReplyDeleteGood luck! After going through two hurricanes in one year, my son and his wife sold their new home in Florida and moved to Nashville. Now they are building an even larger home there.They should move in the middle of October. They had enough of hurricanes. The weather people are having a hard time forecasting today's weather. It's so different from the past. It's actually just an educated guess. Mother Nature does what she wants to do.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to prepare, you never know.
ReplyDeleteAlways best to be prepared. But I hope you don't really have to test out those clips!
ReplyDeleteSo often it seems like earth and humans are at war with each other.
ReplyDeleteI too hope you won't need them, but you are ready, just in case! :-)
ReplyDeleteNever even considered there would be an entire industry to prepare houses & people for hurricanes. Good thing for those in the hurricane areas, too. It's a good thing to do what you're doing. Same reason we always buy travel insurance - you never know if you'll need it but its good to be prepared.
ReplyDeleteYes, fingers crossed, indeed! It's better to be prepared. It's pretty scary, with extreme weather.
ReplyDeletebetter prepared than not...
ReplyDeleteWonderful prep. Bravo and hurrah.
ReplyDeleteI hope you won’t need the preparations but good to have them done. What do the clips do? Haven’t seen those used here. Are the barriers you mentioned bags of sand to keep water from entering at doorways?
ReplyDeleteThe clips hold the roof down (I hope.) It's actually a requirement in new houses being built in Hawaii. The barriers are large, strong, plastic (I think) type sheets (instead of plywood) that you install over windows so they don't blow out. You'd hang them just prior to hurricane hitting.
DeleteGlad to know you are prepared. At first, it felt safer and relief spending hurricane season in California. Very soon, the earthquake threat and series of small ones, the nearby big fires that kept Bay area air unhealthy for weeks at a time, all make us glad to be home on Oahu. Glad also to be in a modern engineered building with no lawn mower 🐱. Glad you're safer with your wise preps. Plus you are far from the ocean which is great at a time like that.🤙
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky. They said that if you were above the 4th floor (I think it was the 4th floor) you were safe from hurricanes.
DeleteMy theory in Florida was that if you are prepared, you aren't scared. You have done a great job and won't have those last minute preps that most people have.
ReplyDeleteI had to do a little checking, since I did not know about hurricane clips. I see that the purpose is to hold the roof on the house!! It's good to be prepared.
ReplyDeleteI too hope there are few to none.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know what hurricane clips were. If it's just to hold the roof onto the house, how does that work? Is it holding the larger beams in place, and the shingles, roofing felt and boards underneath could still blow away? Seems like tornado prone areas like Oklahoma should have these clips.
ReplyDeleteIn 1971, a tornado in OKC did lots of residential damage, piercing a 7-11 roof girder into a home's front lawn like a dart. But my band director's house had a roof that had been picked up, seemingly by a giant, and lifted up at one end by about 1 foot. The brick walls were intact and still standing, but the eve and end of the roof was off. Expensive repair!
Clips, eh? Linda in Kansas, where roofs fly off everywhere....
The hurricane clips hold down the larger beams of the roof to the house. And yup... the shingles could easily still blow away. Sigh...
DeleteComplete assembly of these chakas
ReplyDeleteBetter safe than sorry.
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