@Strap Hanger posted:Yep, Mark, these are the things one must consider down here in the land of sun, fun, and no basements. I had my second story built with concrete block and extra hurricane roof straps to better withstand a storm. Of course, that had nothing to do with the fact that I wanted the option of building a layout in one of those spare second floor rooms. Nah. Nothing at all, LOL!
Strap Hanger, The closest I came to a Hurricane was in 2008 I think, the company sent two of us to the northern Houston suburbs for a week. The hurricane that hit Houston was on its way. We got a flight out a day earlier than planned, one of the last flights out. One of the Texans we met with left a day earlier than us to board up his and two elderly relatives and then drove to Austin. I’ll take the blizzards here with temperatures occasionally below zero.
