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How About This Weather We've Been Having?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Cohete Rojo, May 4, 2015.

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  1. Poloshirtbandit

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    Just got our power back about an hour ago. Across the street from us never lost power, we lost it around 6:30 yesterday
     
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    Seeing the video and pics it might be fortunate
    Only 4 people are dead.

    Those windows very heavy on the curtain walls of buildings and could do a lot damage if they hit a car or a person.
     
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    Crazy, I didn't realize it was so bad, my lights barely flickered, a few miles from me people are being told their power could be out weeks.
     
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    Anyone know why giant transmission line towers are not rated to handle 110 mph winds? Seems like a sturdy steel structure tbh
     
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    Houston just has too much weather.
     
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    Power just came back. Right on time for the Astros/Brewers and Knicks/Pacers games.
     
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    Power back in Copper Lakes in Cypress as of few hours ago. Time to buy new food at some point.
     
  9. JuanValdez

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    In a tiny pod of 14 houses without power. The repair should be easy, but I imagine we are a low priority because it's just a handful of houses.
     
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    Our neighborhood got wrecked(timbergrove /lazybrook). Insane how many trees completely uprooted and fell into peoples houses and blocked roads.

    I was watching from the garage for a bit. Running out to grab limbs to protect the cars. But the pressure changed, the house started whistling near the door jam…I legit expected to see a tornado roll into my field of view. Don’t see how there wasn’t one.

    No power but generator putting in work
     
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    The problem was the swirling winds. They can take directional winds but when you have high speed winds swirling they lose integrity. (Non expert, btw)

    Seeing mature trees snapped and twisted is some serious force
     
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    We got wrecked in Oak Forest. My block alone had 6 uprooted trees including a giant pine that just missed my house and straddled 3 driveways. No power.
     
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    Experienced about the same south of 11th. Very abrupt and violent. Lines are down all over near Shepherd and 13th. No way power is back soon. Haven't even seen any workers out.
     
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    Anyone heard when Xfinity might come back
     
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    From what I remember they should be rated for hurricane force winds. Of course what the design tolerance is and what the actual tolerance is doesn’t always work out. A lot of other factors can also come into play such as soil conditions.
     
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    Yep. For flooding it seems like a “100 years” is now every year.
     
  17. JuanValdez

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    They texted me to report my service had been restored. I never knew it was gone since I didn't have electricity.

    Which is getting real tiresome btw.
     
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    Also not an expert, but what I've seen from many hurricanes is the ground gets saturated and the tree topples over with the roots intact... and it is the ground that loses integrity.

    I'm sure it's a bit of both, as when you have a tree snapped in half, it obviously doesn't have anything to do with the ground. Also, sometimes large chunks of trees are just structurally unsound... rotten cores or knots and they're just waiting to come down.
     
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    Nah I saw the wind. Sure soils and tree type matter but this was a freight train. Stuff was not just snapped, things were mangled and twisted like magneto got it. Had a steel double door blow in.
     
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    These pictures just make it look like they folded from force. I guess your saying it's possible the footing comes up (like tree roots) in wet sandy soil and the tower folds?
     

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