Strapping down your roof for a hurricane - photo

[PJs]

My guess is this wouldn't work and a band-aid at best and at worst could cause more issues.

Those stakes in the ground would need to be in at an angle perpendicular to the roof pitch and my guess is at least 2' long and in good Earth...the water will soften it from surge or the shear amount of water dropped at Velocity. As for the roof straps the straps themselves might hold up providing the Harmonics generated from the horrific wind and rain torrents of the unsullied portions of the straps turning out frequencies that crumble the house and loosening the soil the stakes are in even more. Might be interesting music though.

Then there is the truss spacing to the straps...doesn't look good to me and like Frank says if the sheeting comes loose its over. Not only that but loading on specific trusses from the straps would probably create buckles in other portions of the sheeting and roof tiles and may effect too much point specific loading on the substructure. As long as the hurricane isn't a direct strike of any thing over a tropical storm...Maybe...but I'd be looking for cracks in the walls at a minimum after...on a stucco house to boot.

One other thought is the Power Pole and Xformer in the back; depending on the origin of the hurricane, a clockwise rotation may just throw that Xformer directly into the house and a 200lb Xformer at say ~40-60mph...stucco, framing, wood roof...none would likely weather that storm, well. I've seen the wake of Tornado's in person after it bounced over our trailer park and was chased by a cyclone leaving Alabama...Best you can do imho, is pucker up and get low or not be there in the first place (says someone living in earthquake country). Mother nature in full force makes a Rorschach symbol out of most places we build.

PJ