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01-31-2013, 07:25 PM
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Storm Damage... close call!
If you live on the east coast, I know you got a taste of the freak January storm we got yesterday. Well, I got home from work today and seen some damage that made me thank the Camaro Gods. Now I need to start building my good karma points back up.
 What you see in the pictures is the aluminum siding decor on the front side of the carport. Luckily the wind lifted it up and on top of the carport and not on top of our cars! I already got tomorrow off work, so it looks like tomorrow I'll be on a ladder with a rivet gun. 
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01-31-2013, 07:35 PM
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I just gotta ask, who takes the time to back in, you or the significant other?? :-)
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01-31-2013, 07:37 PM
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Drives: '11 Camaro 2SS/RS LS3 Join Date: Jan 2012
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Good to see the cars weren't damaged
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02-01-2013, 04:52 AM
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Drives: Eve - 2011 Camaro 2SS/RS Join Date: Apr 2012
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Do this
 
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02-01-2013, 05:24 AM
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Roof expert detail noob
Drives: 2013 BRM 2LT RS Join Date: Oct 2012
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That thing acts like a wind tunnel, and a thousand rivets probably will not hold that piece of metal down especially if it hangs lower than the fascia. I was thinking of adding something like this to my house, and thankfully I didnt! Lost 12 trees in Sandy and now this freak storm. I have been roofing for a while now, and I have never seen weather this bad, and it is only getting worse.
Count your blessings!
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02-01-2013, 03:36 PM
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I agree with you 100% on that. 
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02-01-2013, 06:04 PM
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Drives: 2010 Camaro 1LS 3.6 LLT V6 325 HP Join Date: May 2009
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Neighbors deck umbrella landed on my camaro during a storm.... Crazy
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02-01-2013, 06:41 PM
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Drives: 2010 Camaro 2LT RS Join Date: Sep 2012
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If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
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02-01-2013, 06:51 PM
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It's in black & white
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I think your lucky the car port is still there!  The wind up here would have take'in that thing out!, with Dorathy or not! Glad to see all is well!  
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02-01-2013, 07:01 PM
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02-01-2013, 07:05 PM
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Drives: 2011 Black on Black 2SS M6 Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Pinehurst NC
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Man you lucked out for sure!
I hate to say but that Carport looks sketchy.We know how those winds can get sometimes here in the south...crazy. My Engineering back round is coming into play.... ...It is lacking substantial bracing in my opinion both laterally and vertically.Throw some 45* bracing on that thing and ensure the posts,which there are only 2,have adequate enbedment or attachment into the ground to prevent uplift. If you really want to put the Facia back on use 3 washer screws vertically about every 12" or so it will stay put.Skip the rivets. You have two very nice cars under there that the structure is supposed to protect and not have it collapse on top of.
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