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Hurricane Matthew Heading for Florida, Carolinas

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 05 2016, @07:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-prepared dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:43PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday October 05 2016, @09:43PM (#410844)

    I've traveled some and you'll see American houses made of stucco without even any sheathing just the plaster stuff over studs and maybe some insulation and then drywall on the inside maybe a vapor barrier, especially in bubble era construction, so there's no point protecting the windows when the windows are stronger than the walls or the windows are stronger than the roof. Also us northerners see advertisements for "hurricane proof" shatter proof windows where they throw a 2x4 at the window at 120 MPH and shrug our shoulders "what good could that do for us with 250 MPH tornadoes up here". So none of us end up with permanent shutters.

    Meanwhile in Europe they think everything should be made post and beam of 16 inch diameter oak and everything made after 1100 AD counts as "new construction" so it makes sense to put shutters on a castle like that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:36PM (#411145)

    Standard construction is concrete block. Good construction is solid poured concrete. Wood is uncommon, probably less than 5% near the ocean.