Author Topic: Midwest Storms (Read 5839 times)

dieselgman · « **on:** April 16, 2012, 02:23:57 AM »

Anyone get hit with the weekend round of tornadoes? We lost the roof on one of our apartment buildings and parts building at Lyons Kansas... No one hurt, just a huge mess to clean up and building to restore now. Not nice to mess with mother nature!

dieselgman

38ac · « **Reply #1 on:** April 16, 2012, 01:59:06 PM »

Glad to see it wasn't any worse for you! Here in Ohio our weather has been wierd to say the least but not particularly stormy. Cold rainy like early March on Saturday and Sunday was like July.

LowGear · « **Reply #2 on:** April 16, 2012, 06:43:13 PM »

Let's hear it for concrete!

Just imagine the amount of concrete you can get delivered to your place of construction for a measly $100,000.

Pretty amazing photo. One half of the roof shared with the neighborhood and the other looking like it was ready for the spring rains.

Casey

mike90045 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 17, 2012, 06:39:54 AM »

How do you strip the roof off, and leave the blow-in attic insulation

dieselgman · « **Reply #4 on:** April 17, 2012, 10:15:44 AM »

I think it is called a microburst... strong uplift in a very small area and very brief time. This one was unfortunately centered right on our building that has withstood 35 years of Kansas windstorms (until now). Part of the problem was our 2-story building height. 3/4 of that (used to be) insulation is gone- it is plastered on everything to our North and also spread inside the building, including a very heavy 64' x 25' section of composite roof structure - 5 layers of asphalt and 2x6 wooden conventional construction, quite heavy. Also lost a lot of the ceiling inside and 2 tenants displaced with their households trashed. Some neighboring buildings were also damaged, as well as most of the nearby business signs and all of our trees except one massive elm. Also, fencing and powerlines are now on the ground. It also took off the brick and concrete chimney and lifted the roof of the house next door . About a half a mile away several other roof structures were torn up as well on the USDA (very modern) building and the county jail - both substantial and well-built structures. The blue concrete structure you see in the lower right of this picture is our underground tornado shelter and it came to good use this time - sheltered 2 adults and 2 kids.

dieselgman

dieselgman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 28, 2012, 03:24:58 AM »

Well, it has been a hectic and stressful couple of weeks, but we have managed to mostly recover from the tornado hit - and have a solid new roof over our building. Heavily reinforced and with hurricane ties into concrete this time around.

dieselgman

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