My creek neighbor has just applied plywood to his windows. I don’t know – the house faces east, we’re well off Long Island Sound and, in my experience, we’ve never had a problem here, but maybe he knows better.
UPDATE: funny thing is, while I don’t think there’s any danger from wind-blown debris, a storm surge might be a different matter, yet this guy has left his entire lower floor unprotected. The water ain’t coming up to your second floor, buddy.
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if necessary, we have the plywood, but we are waiting until this evening to decide about boarding up the windows.
as an aside, interesting how the gambrel roofline is predominant in all the homes in this photo. it disappeared for a long time, in favor of the traditional colonial roof – the gambrel is very strong and imho, very appealing, as long as the house is big enough to carry it.
If it were a commerial property I’d think they went out of buisness
How did houses get permitted to be built in these wetlands in the first place?
The gambrel roofline looks absurd. Are people trying to make their house look like a barn? In twenty years these will be like all the 1970s contemporaries of today, tear downs.
Guy is an idiot who watches too much color TV!
The gambrel roofline is a classic design and has been around for centuries. It is attractive and is also very practical – it allows more headroom in the spaces below, due to its design.
Forget the storm, the economy is the real disaster!
P & Z at 12:42, I was wondering the same thing, out of envy, not to scold, although I’m not envious at the moment. Somebody PLEASE tell me that the owners of these palaces do not get federally subsidized flood insurance.
..perhaps you should consider the official “EVACUATION” notice from the Town of Greenwich warning the residents in this Zone;(and seems yours as well)along with the other home owners living near the coast of CT..that these folks are only trying to protect the safety of any damage to anyone or any household in the event of a HURRICANE!
I hope you are prepared as well,seeing you are fore front on the Creek..and have done EVERYTHING to assure the safety of your house and your neighbors..That is the question here
What are you gonna do, Anonymous, move the house? As I explained to the young man from the town with his evacuation notice, we’re 16′ above sea level, and that’s our basement. If we lose the furnace (and the cats’ litter box) well, that would be a bummer, but there’s not much I can do about it. And we have ten more feet to go above that before our living quarters are affected. I’m far more worried about losing power for the next week, but thanks to a generous offer of shelter from my friend Fly, I can always haul Ma off to the Back Country and know she’ll be okay. So here we be, for now.
What happened to the blog from “neighborsagainstspies?!” that was written yesterday? stating that you are a bored,Norman -Bates like lonely man,living off his Ma..rocking in his chair and using a telescope,binoculars and super zoom lens to spy on your neighbors?! A modern day Peeping Tom indeed! ALl the neighbors on the creek should be warned of your invasion of privacy..then to be such a coward and delete the responses that don’t agree with or are negative,tsk,tsp..Get a life,and not be an envious lyeing creep because you are forgotten about and a total loser!!
(why not wear a shower cap in the rocking chair..and see the film Pyscho for amusement!)
Itsoveryourhead @ 8:56 on Sunday, while your sentiment screams “Walt,” your tone, spelling and punctuation scream “seriously misdirected Eastern European scam artist.” Thus we loyal readers of this blog (also seriously misdirected, but that’s another story for another day) have to conclude that you are, in fact, Walt, but that you happen to currently be in cahoots with a displaced former Staasi dominatrix. Well, hell, odd things happen to odd people when they wear odd leather goods in odd weather conditions. Keep us posted.