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Timber can be many things. I have a hard time seeing a log house being swept away by almost any force of wind.
by syoc 5y ago
Timber can be many things. I have a hard time seeing a log house being swept away by almost any force of wind.
- TylerE 5y agoThen you don't appreciate the forces at play. An EF4 will rip deep rooted trees right out of the ground.
- syoc 5y agoI can see that there are manufacturers selling log houses certified for cat-5 (245 mph) hurricanes. I do of course understand that any construction will be blown away at some point, I just cant picture it. The way the logs lock each other at the intersections and how the structure still is sound with no roof should help quite a bit.
- TylerE 5y agoThe big danger in a cat 5 is more the debris. There's a saying: It's not THAT the wind is blowing,it's WHAT the wind is blowing.
- mythrwy 5y agoI worked on a cleanup crew after hurricane Andrew. Huge H-frame metal girders on highway structures were bent like pretzels. Entire lime groves were uprooted and piled like tumbleweeds. Houses were completely exploded. It was similar to what I imagine a bomb going off would look like. A log cabin would not have survived the worst areas of it I don't believe.