07-06-2009, 03:19 AM
Any ideas how best to prevent 100mph coconuts and suchlike in a hurricane from blasting through 2nd and 3rd floor windows?
Exterior storm shutters are the best idea I can think of so far, but wooden shutters have been around for hundreds of years and are relatively lightweight. Done in fairly heavy gauge steel such exterior storm stutters would be better than nothing against the proverbial 100mph coconut, but fabricated thusly steel shutters would be heavy, expensive, prone to rusting, and the skin of the building would be broken where each of the shutters attaches to the exterior (so presenting potential for leaks developing). Surely there is some newer technology to accomplish the same goal using more advanced materials &/or a more clever strategy?
To protect the big glass windows on the first floor we are having our contractor anchor big heavy eyebolts deep into the cement at the top and bottom on the outer face of each stout column all along the wrap-around lanai. If a hurricane looks like it may come to call ashore in Puna then we can snap carabiners into the anchoring eyebolts, unroll cyclone fencing, and snap the wire fencing mesh into the carabiners. This (we reason) will allow winds to whistle through the metal mesh without much resistance yet be strong enough to flex and rebound if struck by flying missiles, such as deflecting 100 mph coconuts from coming straight through the 1st floor windows.
Your ideas toward 2nd and 3rd floor window storm protection would be appreciated.
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
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