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Hurricane Matthew is a Category 4 major hurricane that is expected to hit the east coast of the U.S.:
With the Category 4 hurricane expected to brush up to the US East Coast later this week after its deadly assault on the Caribbean, state officials warned residents and visitors to start preparing for some miserable times. Up to 1 million people could face evacuation in South Carolina. Matthew is an "extremely dangerous" storm, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said, one that made landfall in western Haiti on Tuesday morning. It then headed over eastern Cuba with winds of 140 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center, before losing some of its force. The Bahamas are next. The forecast is that Matthew will ride along the US coast from Florida through the North Carolina Outer Banks from Thursday evening through Saturday. It could make landfall at any point and all areas should be on guard.
(Score: 1) by justinb_76 on Wednesday October 05 2016, @08:46PM
Hampton Roads, VA here - latest update looks like it'll avoid our area completely :)
just out of curiosity, what window shutters did you go with? the one time I got around to making some out of plywood was for Irene, and it ended up being a waste of time - the storm we got a month afterwards did significantly more damage. Would like to have something ready to put up if needed, but would prefer something that doesn't take up a huge space in the garage when not needed and something lighter than plywood.
stay safe, hope everything works out!
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 05 2016, @10:50PM
Metal is easier to deal with, but I went with 3/4" plywood, cut into 2' wide sections... that was fine when I did it (age 25), by the time I sold that house (age 37) those suckers were heavy and hard to maneuver into place.
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(Score: 2) by tynin on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:45AM
My window shutters came with my house, some 14 years ago, and I've never known what make/model, if you will, that they are. The nice thing about the corrugated steel is even though i'll have 4 to 5 pieces of it per window and sliding glass door, they all stack perfectly with each other and take only the height of the tallest sliding glass door and are perhaps 1 foot wide, the corrugation is around 2" deep, and it is something between 10 and 12 gauge, so it ends up being a thin long stack of metal that takes up vanishingly little space. There are fixed screw mount points in the exterior wall on the top and bottom of each of the windows. You basically slide them in place and tightened them down.
I tried rebuilding my jenny in time. Had it for 10 years, and haven't turned it on in 4 years... ::self defeating facepalm:: I thought I had it repaired and working, for about 20 seconds I did... and now it won't catch anymore. Le sigh. I should have another chance before noon tomorrow to try to do another parts run.
It'll be my 5 year old sons first hurricane. He is concerned but excited. It's rather cute.
Likely last bedtime with AC for a week+... First world problems! Heh.