{"id":2830,"date":"2008-07-07T06:35:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2008-07-07T06:35:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:35:13","slug":"when-city-bureaucrats-go-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"When City Bureaucrats Go Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Various cities around the Twin Cities are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/23999344.html?page=1&#038;c=y\">debating raising the standard for garage door strength<\/a>, noting that in many suburban tornadoes, the real damage begins when the garage door blows out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When high winds, especially tornado winds, hit a typical suburban house, the failure of many garage doors to withstand the force can become the first link in a disastrous chain reaction. Minnesota has moved in recent years to require somewhat stronger construction standards for doors, but communities elsewhere have gone further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The theory is that the failure of the garage door makes the rest of the garage a wind scoop. causing greater damage to the house and sending huge parts of the garage sailing into neighboring houses.<\/p>\n<p>Some communities are answering by requiring the doors be able to withstand a 90mph gust, up from the current standard of 80mph.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some question whether stronger garage doors are worth the additional cost, since no door can stand up to the full fury of nature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Er&#8230;I&#8217;m no engineer, but why not just build a panel into the back of the garage that blows off (hinged downward, so as not to fly across the impeccably-maintained lawn and smash things) at 95mph, relieving the pressure inside the garage?<\/p>\n<p>Would it not be cheaper than building armor-plated garage doors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various cities around the Twin Cities are debating raising the standard for garage door strength, noting that in many suburban tornadoes, the real damage begins when the garage door blows out. When high winds, especially tornado winds, hit a typical suburban house, the failure of many garage doors to withstand the force can become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}