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Originally Posted by dougjb
Following hurricane preparedness advice on TOTV is not safe.
For instance, it is recommended by the experts in Florida (who know a bit more about hurricanes than New England) that you keep all windows closed. When you open them you create a situation where the differential in air pressure caused by the gradient in the roof line and the air pressure in the house tends to lift the roof off. Think of an airplane wing. In Andrew, the entry of the hurricane winds into a structure also had the ability to peel sheet rock off the wall studs (you can look at the Burger King headquarters after Andrew hit on line).
The advice of the professionals should be sought and followed...regardless of hurricane strength or proximity. The advice on here, including my own, is subject to being challenged. So, please turn to other outlets for their advice.
So, even though I am a native Floridian, I urge you to follow the advice of the pros...even though the news channels really seem to go overboard. I love it when they say during an anticipated normal summer thunderstorm that winds will gust to 80 miles an hour. What? Sinclair Broadcasting, a conservative nationwide owner of tv and radio stations once demanded that their weather people to spice up the weather forecasts with such extreme forecasts. I always have a pound of salt ready when I listen to the television news.
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Yup that'll blow the roof right off, no doubt. UNLESS you are living on the second floor of a three-story apartment building. In that case, the roof won't be affected at all by your 2nd floor apartment windows being wide open. Or the first floor apartments. And if the third floor apartments are beneath a walk-up attic (which would be fully insulated with exhaust fans and solid A-frame construction), then even the third floor windows could be opened without risking damage to the roof. But they don't recommend that, because most tenants don't even know there /is/ an attic, let alone a walk-up one.
But the 2nd floor having ventilation and wind-flow through the building is not a risk to the attic above a third floor of a 3-floor apartment building.
And that is where I live, which is what I specified.