hmmm

The problem is almost never that the wind it blowing, its what the wind is blowing.
- In this case, I expect it's going to be blowing those ratchet straps after they become unanchored, turning them into whips that'll cleave the roof in half.
  
  The description for the picture says they are connected to big burried concrete blocks, so likely the house is gone before these straps get loose.
  
  unanchored
  whips
  schrodingers whip. How is it both unanchored and a whip at the same time.
- Hurricanes rip poorly built roofs off all the time. Builders get lazy and install the hurricane anchor things wrong. At least the local home inspector on Reddit used to say
  
  I trust reddit posts too.
- Ron White, is that you!?
  
  They call me.. Tater-Salad.
- If your ass gets hit by a Volvo...
- it's* what the wind is blowing.

I wonder what the vibration frequency of those straps is, once the wind is blowing through them.
Will they vibrate the roof into mush before they pull out of the ground and become metal ended whips?
- As someone who straps, I felt this in my soul. God I hate that noise(I use tarp clamps for dampeners).
  
  I've used a twist in the strap and that seems to help a lot.

That ain't going anywhere.
- plucks ratchet strap as it's tightening - "Bb...B, C...Db, D, D, D...Yeah'p. At'll git er."
- until the ground it's anchored to is converted into grassy diarrhea by the flooding
  
  Concrete blocks 8ft into the ground
- pats the front door with my hands
- At least until Milton casually tosses a tree at it.
  
  I appreciate your optimism by using the singular…

As long as someone is shredding death metal guitar on the roof throughout the storm, I approve.
- Technically you're not allowed to have a storm before there's a dude shredding death metal on a rooftop.

slaps tightened straps "That's not going anywhere"
- Those are the magical words that make it happen. The straps are just for show.

If this homeowner is as good at tying down his house as the yokels around here are at tying down their cargo, then the odds are this house is somehow going to end up hitting my windshield.
- Just tie some rope around it, that'll hold!

omg it's real
- Uploaded 3 hours ago!
  I seriously want to know how it goes with his house. I give him props for trying.
  
  This is like congratulating Don Quixote for killing all the dragons.

Apparently, he's not the first, and it might actually have a chance of working.
- Jesus Diaz was afraid the roof would blow off. And while the straps are gone, the roof stayed put. His home didn’t sustain damage, either.
  Meanwhile the row of houses a street over that got raked with his modern-day chain shot are ravaged
  
  Yeah 6 ratchet straps are really gonna make a differencein damage in a fucking hurricane....smh.

Worth a try. If it does not work, it did not cost a fortune, if it does, good for the owner.
- Unless there's a footing these straps are being anchored to that I'm not seeing, I doubt it'll do very much besides potentially acting as very dangerous whips.
  
  You'd be surprized how strong an industrial screwed-in ground anchor holds. And it has to be anchored at the correct angle towards the load.
  So, most likely, they will not just rip out, and they have a good chance to add a significant force holding down that roof.
  If done properly, of course.
  
  There is a news video about it, it's anchored to concrete and rebar 8 feet deep or something like that
  
  I’ve seen these deck strap things that you push way down into the ground and as you pull them up a little the flatten out and turn sideways. Really easy to install and harder than hell to pull out. I think it’s called an earth anchor maybe. I bet that’s what he used here.
  
  yeah these look like footings to me, i see what looks to be a small concrete protuberance right out of the ground. Also these would likely just pull out of the ground if they weren't anchored, and they wouldn't be whips, just very odd debris.

Someone remind us of this works after Milton goes through this house.
For a 2k investment I'm willing to try it to save my home.

pats roof
That ain't going nowhere
- This baby'll hold a family of three

With all these experts in the comments, I now want the original sauce and to follow up to see what actually will happen.
- YouTube recommended a video of this to me yesterday. The straps are anchored with cement. Seems like it buys him X additional mph of wind speed compared to his neighbors. We'll see if the winds are in that "more than a regular roof can handle but less than the straps can hold" range.
  
  Yyy, I've heard all the theoretical arguments. I now want to witness the experiment live. Or on camera.

Seems like a plausible strategy. If the roof is lashed down it can't catch the wind and therefore is less likely to weaken over time and go flying. Certainly better than doing nothing.

If it keeps the roof on maybe it's not so dumb.
- That’s exactly what the owner said it’s for in the video interview I saw
- No, it's dumb.

It's not helping, but somehow I like the look of it.

Holy shit all this time I thought The Picard Maneuver was an entire sub and thanks to that meme earlier I see you're an actual person. Finally clued in..
Good stuff too!
Also this seems like an idea worth trying. Cheap, maybe might work? Idk. I'm not inside hurricanes ever.

Hold the house down into the storm surge until it learns its lesson
- Waterboard that bitch til it talks

Optimistic

I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out

They should have anchored it to that Toyota truck.
- Those vehicles and other debris will be flying into those straps.
  
  for one, it's a joke, second, if the truck is flying, the entire house and foundation are already gone lmao.

This is extremely stupid. I was happy to see that most people here seem to immediately understand this.
- it depends. It would only really be stupid if this wasn't permitted/inspected. If the law says it's good then fuck it, it's good.
  You can bet your ass if it hasn't been inspected yet, it's about to be.

Cope rope

I think this one's a joke, sure some would say it's no time for humor but I think it's funny.

I don’t know if this stupid or genius. Now I’m curious.

This is actually not a bad idea
- Lol it's a terrible idea. The wind would get a hold of those and they would essentially grind the roof away.
  
  Better a damaged roof still attached to the house than a roof strewn a mile and a half downwind.
  
  If it's anchored into concert blocks, it's not much different than internal hurricane straps that hold a roof on. They won't move, or damage the roof, you don't know that your talking about.
  
  The surface area on those straps isn't really going to grab the wind particularly bad. If the metal connection to the anchors actually holds up, it might actually do a little good.
  But if there's enough lift to pull that roof up without the straps, it's almost certainly enough to snap the anchor connection, assuming the anchors themselves are deep enough to stay put.
  More likely though is that these just snap and become hurricane whips with barbed ends.
  Edit - or catch debris that snaps them before the wind even has a chance to rip the roof off.

They missed the 25-foot waterproof wall, for the actual damage, the storm surge...
- Just put down some moisture absorbers, it'll be fine.
  
  Just stick it in some rice. Good as new.
- This house is in Orlando though, way inland.

Checkmate, nature.

ok so. This isn't going to stop a tree, or a large rock from flying through the side of you wall, but if you home isn't mounted to the foundation (common in old homes) or very well mounted, or just not very wind load capable, this could actually be beneficial.
You could still experience "wall buckling" but since the roof is relatively secured, you're acting from a separate point of leverage. Which is essentially going to be in the middle of the wall, rather than at the top of the wall.
This is all assuming that these anchor points are as strong or stronger than the straps and mounting hardware. And the fact that your home doesn't disintegrate between the staps.

Anyone claiming this is going to work has no idea how houses are constructed or how hurricanes cause damage.
- It would prevent flat winds from removing the roof, for at least a little bit.
  
  Anywhere there's wind strong enough to lift the ceiling off, is going to be debris flying around and smashing the roof into pieces.
  Any pieces of the house which would stay grounded thanks to the straps would need to be replaced anyway.
  The straps are probably tight enough that the roof needs to be refurbished after, even if the hurricane didn't cause any damage.
  That's not even considering the likelihood of severe flooding.
  House is fukked fam.
- Tornados took the roofs off of many houses today across Florida.
  
  I like to imagine them all getting shifted one house to the left.

Maybe build with ICF ( insulated concrete forms).

I wonder how deep those stakes are driven lol
- On the surface, it looks as if they bored decent size holes in the ground and set the anchors in concrete. With a Bobcat, they could easily get 3 meter x 40cm holes; that's 904kg of concrete at each anchor point, and a lot of friction.
  This isn't the stupidest idea I've ever seen; given that they can't move their house, and set unlikely to move all their possessions for just a few days, Heck, it's not a bad idea at all, and looks well-executed.
- According to the local news interview, 8' concrete piles.
- I guarantee it's not deep enough. Hurricanes of this magnitude topple and uproot trees with massive root structures extending several meters underground. These type of DIY solutions are almost always create more hazard than they solve.
  
  More than likely, if the straps are attached to cement blocks, the cement is deeper than the average depth of a tree root.
  
  Those trees are also giant sails which transfers that much more force from the wind
  
  they make houses rated to hurricane winds, i don't think the trees really care one way or the other. Engineering is often better at withstanding hurricanes than trees.

A bit like the building at the top of Mount Washington

+10 for holding the roof on the house
+5 for holding the house on the foundation
-7 for creating a large strong web effectively doubling the surface area where flying things can destroy your house.

I love this.

Someone misunderstood building code for hurricane ties.

I have that people post those and I don't doubt they are real anymore.
Now I'm just curious about what shape those anchors have, due to morbid curiosity.
- They’re 8 foot deep concrete anchors according to the interview
- They're just round and deep. Also, it really does work.
  
  By "does work" you mean you don't need to care about the anchors flying around and falling over you; you only have to care about the lines cutting you in half or that wood house breaking down when pressed against them?
  If so, yeah, round and deep concrete tubes work.

ive always wondered why nobody does that with their mobile homes. seems like enough strapping would help minimize tornado damage if they were anchored deep enough
- You've gotta remember that most mobile home communities are folks who own their units renting the land for use. This guy has custom concrete anchors, which a mobile home community property owner probably wouldn't want.
  
  then that mhcomm owner is a dumbfuck for not wanting his renters property protected
- mobile homes are built like complete shit (mostly due to weight) so even if you strapped them they would probably still vanish at the sight of 80mph winds lol.