I do not know that, but it's a good question.
I did once attend a storm spotter session put on by meteorologists down in Pleasant Hill, MO. In part of the presentation, he noted that in severe storms, garage doors will often cave in at around 70-80 mph, after which a tremendous pressure against the underside of the roof will often cause failure.
Can we burn some floppy disks at the meeting, and blame it all on the member formerly known as fistful?
When they were developing Table Mesa subdivision, they just kind of oriented homes randomly according to whim and sometimes solar energy acquisition.
What they forgot was that Table Mesa was right under a wind funnel from the mountains and subject to occasional 100mph+ winds when the jet stream was just right.
First time that happened, all the homes with the garage doors facing west blew open and essentially destroyed the houses.
Fortunately, the first time this happened, the subdivision was just starting up. After that, they always arranged things so the garage doors faced east, and if you're looking for that kind of thing, it's pretty obvious that there are darned few garages on the west sides of the homes.
I don't know this part of it by first-hand knowledge but I understand they even had to change a few of the platted streets to accomplish the change in the buildings' orientations.
Oh. Table Mesa is on the south side of Boulder CO, where I lived for
over twenty almost thirty years. On the CB radio Circuit Boulder was known as "the windy city," just as Longmont was known as "Longtown."
That was the "here" then. The "here" now is near Golden Colorado. Where Coors is brewed, which ought to pin the locale down pretty good.
And thanks for the few brave comments of heroic support on my "where the hell is 'here'?" rant. We need more real men like you.
Terrible Terry, 230RN
