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rrlund

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To add insult to injury,the lumber yard is a mile from my house,but they were closed for inventory. I had to pull the gooseneck 20 miles to Menards to get some 16 and 20 foot stuff. Wasted the whole morning with that.
We got the wood replaced. The boy said he'd be back about 10 in the morning to start nailing steel. Of all weekends for him to do it,the older boy went up north. Said he'd be back tomorrow.
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No,got lucky there. There were four sheets still nailed to the 2x4s that laid way up by the shop,but most of the rest of them were just blowing around single. The two sheets on the far end were still nailed to a few 2x4s and dangling off the end. I had to pop the nails and get those down last night to get them out from hanging over in the other feedlot. We got everything picked up and pulled inside last night,but there were more sheets on the ground this morning.
There's Styrofoam insulation in the field half a mile away.
 
Most aggravating part was,the corner closest to the camera was loose yesterday afternoon when I was loading manure,so I got a ladder and nailed it all back down. The wind got under it someplace else.
If I hadn't done it,I'd really be kicking myself.
 
The wind does not to need to get under the roof to lift the iron. The top of your roof is like the top of an aircraft wing, the wind flowing over it generates a large suction force. If it is open to the windward side the internal pressure will help.
45 years ago I designed a hangar for a gliding club, they had the trusses and posts (free) but what killed the project was the amount of concrete needed in the ground to ensure that the building stayed there.
 
Just courious why you are messing around with nails to hold your roof down, and not using gasketed screws on the flats where they can clamp it down tight.
Loren
 
I hope everything goes OK for you and your son. One time when I was in Kansas I stood safely inside a shop looking out the shop door window watching roof sheets peel off one by one from a building less than 100 feet away in a hurricane like wind. They flapped viciously a few times and then they went flying. There was nothing we could do but watch with our mouths open.
 
Outside of Philly a couple of days ago a local community center, Boys and Girls club or some such, wind took the whole rubberized roof like a orange peel. Only the rafters and some sticks , plus a couple of sheets were left. The whole community got together and were using chainsaws to cut up the rubber roof that was laying just all over the neighbor hood.
 
That building was built in 1964. They were the old twisted lead headed nails. The hay barn we put up in 1995 or so is all screws. The ceiling in this barn is all put up with screws. I'm just going with nails again because that's what the rest of the barn has I guess.
 
The cashier at Menards said the roof on the store started to lift at about 9 last night. She said all the male employees were up there putting sand bags on it to hold it down.
 
Sorry for your damage, lately iv been pretty sick of the high winds, nothing worse than high winds, fast running water, and mud. Last week we had -21 Sunday morning, right now it's 49* and greasey as heck. Good luck fixing it.
 
Randy,
When I announced that I was retiring at 75 years of age you sent your condolences and said you could never do that so I don't expect your place to go on the market very soon. Seriously I can't remember a sustained wind as strong as it was last night. Our home is very tight and someone could sit in the drive and blow their horn and you would not hear it in the house but last night the wind sounded just like a hurricane was going through. Many years ago I owned a home on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and sat through two hurricanes and they sound just like a hammer mill running at full speed and it is a little out of balance. Homes on the island are built with about a three foot overhang on the roofs so they can catch more rain water and it is directed into the cistern. Catching water is very important as there are no wells on the island. Those overhangs on the roofs also catch more wind in a storm. We all made it through the storms but if anybody forecasted a hurricane again I would be long gone by the time it hit. Sorry about your loss but I can see you have everything under control.
 
That zuks. At least no cows got hit.

The only place in this area that sells corrugated is home depot. The stuff they sell is so thin I would almost describe it as foil. Everything has gone to R-panel.
 
I've never heard the sliding glass door on the house make the sound that it did about the time that roof blew off. I've head it whistle before,but this was a roar like never before.

I was meaning to ask the boy if he didn't maybe wish he'd taken me up on it when I offered to sell the dairy cows and the farm to him 12 years ago,but we were too busy for me to even think about it.
 
I am glad that no one was hurt and the damage looks to be limited to something you can repair in short order. It is a mess but I am sure your family will have it back in good order shortly. I wish I was closer I like to build/repair things. Send us some pictures of the finished "job".
 
(quoted from post at 15:40:25 02/20/16) The wind does not to need to get under the roof to lift the iron. The top of your roof is like the top of an aircraft wing, the wind flowing over it generates a large suction force. If it is open to the windward side the internal pressure will help.
45 years ago I designed a hangar for a gliding club, they had the trusses and posts (free) but what killed the project was the amount of concrete needed in the ground to ensure that the building stayed there.
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I was hit by an EF4 tornado back in 2011 and it took the roof off of my house. The roof was that heavy gauge metal roofing that you can get in different colors and securely screwed down. By your post, I think it's called Bernoulli's principal or such, that helped me understand how the great force of that wind could literally suck the metal roof off. It rolled the entire roof up in one big roll, on each side of the house, and flung it way off in the woods. Lots of other damage but I have been wondering for several years how it did that (rolled it up from one side to the other in one giant roll). :shock: Nothing like heavy rain pouring in and sort of coming too in the dark wondering WTH just happened? Could have done without that, but things happen for a reason. Thankful the red head and me are still here. Lots of people up and down our road were killed and houses just exploded with nothing left but the slabs. Wind can be a fearsome thing for sure.
 
Sorry to see all that damage rrl, I hope it all comes back together and stays that way!

Judging from the wind data on the MSU site at Ithaca, the wind was over 20 mph from 1500 to 2345, with a peak at 33.4 just after 6pm.

I wonder what the building was designed for originally.
 
Sorry to hear this Randy. The wind sure was strong, funny how a gust can come along and rip part of a roof off and scatter it a long distance. At least it wasn't the house roof. Good Luck with the repairs..
 
(quoted from post at 22:44:53 02/20/16) Sorry to see all that damage rrl, I hope it all comes back together and stays that way!

Judging from the wind data on the MSU site at Ithaca, the wind was over 20 mph from 1500 to 2345, with a peak at 33.4 just after 6pm.

I wonder what the building was designed for originally.
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30mph is not a strong wind in Kansas.
Just saying.
 
Who you telling? If it can't stand up to 60 miles an hour it don't be around tomorrow. I hate setting
corner posts in cement and the wind blows the corner post off plumb before the cement can set.
 
Home Depot and Lowes sells mostly 32 gauge which is quite thin. I priced 29 gauge unpainted metal at Farmers Coop last year much cheaper than the 32 gauge at Lowes.
 
I worked as a property insurance adjuster for 47 years and handled residential, commercial and farm damage like this over many parts of the country. I used to tell people this is one business a person can get 6 months behind in a matter of minutes.
 
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