Historic Hurricanes

Another good article on "Historic Hurricanes" from the past...

And this one on Hurricane IKE, the last big storm to hit a major city in the U.S...."It took about a year for all the broken windows in the city's skyscrapers to be repaired."

(Those windows would NOT have been blown out had our security film been installed and anchored to the frames)...

What Damage Does WIND Do?

This is a good article on what WIND can do to a building...

"Trouble really starts at 60 mph, or Level 10 on the 200-year-old Beaufort wind scale, developed by a British admiral to estimate wind speeds before the invention of instruments to measure it. “You can get windows blown out,” Elsner said, and parts of roofs may fly off.

Above 75 mph, the situation is dire. “You can get some full-scale compromises of buildings,” Elsner said.

If buildings break apart, airborne debris becomes a problem. Shingles, glass and nail-riddled wall studs can all start flying around. And the wind will whip even faster through tight areas, such as the tunnel-like alleys between two houses built within spitting distance...."

IRENE Aims Toward Armor Glass New York

Hurricane IRENE is now a CAT 3, about 120 mph as it roars over the Bahamas.

It is expected to sweep up the East Coast towards New York, the first hurricane they have had in decades. This will be the 10th extreme weather event we have had in 2011 -- or 11th -- from triple vortex tornadoes that took out Joplin and Tuscaloosa, floods, droughts, an earthquake in Washington DC. It's been a very strange year weatherwise (and otherwise).

If so, it will run into a Chase Bank on Long Island that is protected with Armor Glass Hurricane film - the first use of hurricane film on Long Island (so we were told during installation).

The Chase bank has over-sized windows - 10 feet x 13 feet! There is no other way to afford-ably protect such large windows 24/7. Our film also keeps burglars from breaking into the bank and is cutting cancer causing UV by 99%, which also destroys furnishings. Glass provides almost zero UV protection.

Standby for IRENE, about to jeopardize millions of people living with unprotected windows along the east coast.

"Project Safe Windows" study of the 2004 hurricanes that hit Florida that windborne debris breaching glass is what leads to internal pressurization that causes roofs to be blown off, not to mention internal damage from water, mold, and flying glass.

Get prepared now, because you won't have time when another Irene pops up. Hurricane season won't end until November 30.

Here Comes IRENE: More Behind Her...

Here comes Hurricane IRENE. The east coast of the U.S. are definitely in the strike zone.

Forecasters say that there is a likelihood of a Gulf of Mexico storm by the first week of September.

As you know hurricane season doesn't end until November 30, and mid-September is the peak.

Are you prepared? We are working every day to try to keep up with installation demand..

IRENE CAT 3 Possible by week's end

Hurricane IRENE is expected to hit Florida or the east coast as a CAT 3 (115 mph winds) by this Thursday.

If you look at the Atlantic satellite, there are more tropical waves coming off the coast of Africa - potential future hurricanes.

The hurricane peak is about mid-September, so we haven't reached the height of hurricane season yet. IRENE breaks the hurricane drought - we haven't been hit for awhile. Last year a blocking high kept them from reaching the U.S. No such protection this year...

Stay tuned!

2011: Ties 2008 --Most Extreme Weather Events

"With hurricane season still ahead, a record-tying nine $1 billion weather disasters have already racked the nation this year, federal, state and private forecasters reported Wednesday."

"the National Weather Service estimates that weather disasters have cost more than $35 billion this year, based on insurance estimates. Recent flooding in the Midwest along the Missouri and Souris rivers topped the $2 billion damage mark.

"The nation is increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather," National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes says. The year has been marked by floods, drought and tornadoes, such as the May twister that killed 160 people in Joplin, Mo. Meanwhile, a Texas heat wave has cost $5.2 billion in crop and livestock losses so far "It doesn't take a wizard to predict that 2011 will go down in history," Hayes says."

Read on. It gets even more hair raising:

"Nationwide, the number of natural disasters has tripled in the last two decades, according to insurance firm Munich Reinsurance America. Thunderstorm losses since 1980 have become five times more severe, on average. There were $20 billion in such losses by midyear in 2011, doubling the average of the past three years."

Are you prepared? Are we prepared as a nation?

Here Comes IRENE

Here comes Irene! It's too early to tell exactly WHERE it will hit but the U.S. is in its strike zone.

Right now it is a tropical storm, but it is expected to reach at least CAT 1 status before making landfall.

Remember, the peak of Hurricane season is mid-September, so this could be just a warm-up.

Stay tuned.