windy weather

[heehaw]

i do believe the wind blew harder here tuesday than it ever has: blew off about a dozen shingles from the house, some from the garage, a storage building and the well house: even blew half the roof off a Martin house.
i made a quick trip to lowes and glued em back on the house, but didn't get to the other buildings, and with the weather we have now, i guess it will be a day or two before i do. i called the insurance co this morning, i doubt they will do anything, since i have the roof "sorta" fixed now, but i don't think that roofing cement should be considered a permanent repair..at least it will hold till things slow down in the roofing industry here and i can do a little shoppin for a roofer. folks were lined up at lowes buying shingles...
heehaw

 

[Tig]

I have a half built garage about 10 miles from where this truck blew over yesterday. If I braced it as well as I think I did I will start putting steel on the walls Monday.
Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA

 

[ToadHill]

One of the local banks has a weather station on top of the building, they recorded a gust yesterday of 93mph.

 

[waynokakid]

You didn't slow it down much Heehaw. Gusts in excess of 50mph at West Plains, MO. Blew some roofs off and lots of shingles too.

 

[Bird]

I know we had gusts as high as 52 and have heard it was over 60 some places. My wife mentioned seeing some shingles in the street down the block but I don't know where they came from. The bigger news was the grass fires that got out of control, burned off lots of acres, and a few homes even. And while we didn't actually see any fires here at home, we could sure see and smell the smoke.

 

[heehaw]

had fires up at the old Army base, Ft Chaffee: burned a bunch of buildings: they were the old wwII barracks that needed to be torn down, but couldn't because of asbestos, or so the rumor went.
heehaw

 

[HickoryNut]

I went out yesterday morning half asleep to feed stock and saw my ol' Lawnboy sitting out in the rain, grumbled about one of the kids leaving it outside before I realized it was sitting on the slab where my 8x10 garden shed used to be. I made a 1/2 mile through the woods to the east and I still ain't found my tin shed but did find a trampoline that I'd never seen before.

 

[jinman]

The bigger news was the grass fires that got out of control, burned off lots of acres, and a few homes even.QUOTE]

There's trouble in Paradise...
The fires in Paradise, TX were all around the place where Kathy and I got married. As far as I know, the building did not sustain any damage.

 

[heehaw]

if you were west of me i'd look around for your shed: going thru town, Russellville, there are shingles laying on the highway about every where you go. i kept watching for house with architectual shingles, because thats what i am considering, then i found one and someone was up on their roof working too: kinda makes me lean back towards metal.
heehaw

 

[biggerten]

One of the local banks has a weather station on top of the building, they recorded a gust yesterday of 93mph.

What, were the politicians in town for a debate?

 

[ToadHill]

Bif: It was probably the big blow from several years ago when HILLARY was in town during her campagin to be senator from NY, where she promised 100,000 new jobs to Western New York. That was almost as big a blowhard comment as the 93 mph wind.

I think since then we've lost almost that number of jobs.

 

[5030tinkerer]

For those considering a new roof like HeeHaw, the option that we went with our new home is an architectural shingle with I believe a 110mph wind warranty for about the same cost as the shingles with the 70mph wind warranty. The shingle is from Owens Corning and is called the 'Duration' shingle with 'SureNail' 'technology'. The local Menards carried them, but they are available elsewhere too.

The wind we had was noticeably straining/wanting to bend our 16' garage door with reinforcing struts on every section. It was bad enough that I sure didn't want to be in the garage in case that thing let go. Not a single shingle or shingle piece lost. Life is good!

As far as politicians and blowing hot air, I learned more than I think I wanted to from the attached voters guide.

 

[Jimmyp5]

had fires up at the old Army base, Ft Chaffee: burned a bunch of buildings: they were the old wwII barracks that needed to be torn down, but couldn't because of asbestos, or so the rumor went.
heehaw

I was the Director of Information Management for both Fort Sill and Fort Chafee, back when we were running the BRAC and closing it. Not only did the WWII Barracks have tons of asbestos, the telephone wiring was old lead cable! So it takes a long time with the rules about those two products to tear anything down. I am not susprised they are still not done, once it got transfered over "off Army roles" you know it lost visibility and budget and do most of those type projects.

Winds here were in the 54 max, losts a few shingles and a few branches off old oak trees. As soon as it warms up a bit, over 60 will get up and replace them, no since doing it until the tar will set. No rain soon so no hurry.

 

[heehaw]

i didn't know they made a shingle like that, i will be checking an see if they are available around here.thanks
heehaw
just got back from Lowes, and they don't have the shingles rated at 110mph, their architectual shingles are rated at 70mph winds, and cost $50.70 per square: i have found a place i can buy metal roofing, pretty sure its 26ga: for $60 a square..i'll make sure on that ga of metal and still do a little more syphering before i put the new roof on.

 

[LBrown59]

One thing about the north:
Snow don't burn.

The bigger news was the grass fires that got out of control, burned off lots of acres, and a few homes even.QUOTE]

There's trouble in Paradise...
The fires in Paradise, TX were all around the place where Kathy and I got married. As far as I know, the building did not sustain any damage.

 

[forgeblast]

what is the best way to fix those shingles that come off. we had some gusts of wind the other day that tore two off our a-frame.
just tar and stick the shingle down?

 

[dbdartman]

I've used roofing adhesive, but last roof I did was on a shed I built about 20 years ago, & I used plain old cheap silicone on the last ridge cap (no nails!). We moved 3 years ago & tore the shed down (2.5 years ago before selling the old house) that shingle was still attached, & had never come loose.

It's a sorry pic, but you can see the shed in front of the yellow car in the attached. The siliconed shingle was the one on the far right, closest to the camera.