Gita1111
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I don't know if I can help you guys out or not.
I'm a life long weather enthusiast.
Minored in meteorology in college.
And I live in Mullica Hill less than a quarter mile from said leveled home.
And was home filming as the funnel skirted by me about 200 yards away.
I had zero damage nor any debris in my yard.. but right across the street from me was when it started. Missing shingles , siding. Minor stuff. Even the homes in the back of my development which were more or less in line with the Salvatore home, were just trees down siding shingles but no blown out walls.
Now a little background: ( this is the tl;dr didn't read part. )
The Salvatore home was built in 2010 by the builder Ryan homes if that helps. They had the reputation of being one of the lower end builders purely because they were just so big as a corporation..bad customer service...etc.. I can't speak to that about the quality (at least when I was looking at a house in 2008)..all I remember is my real estate friend / agent steering us away from them, and I never really questioned after that.
I live in a home built in 2008 by a different builder called Orleans.
They were out of BenSalem PA and considered one of the better ones, still mom and pop owned and ran. ..etc.
I was lucky they finished mine before the real estate crash.
Orleans went bankrupt in 2009, and well let the corner cutting begin for everyone. (keep in mind the Salvatore home was built in 2010 by Ryan homes).
Sooooooo....There was quite a bit of scuttlebutt in the community at the time, and the subsequent years after, about homes built after the crash 2009+ not being built properly and corners cut.
Of particular issue was the fact a lot weren't framed with shear wall specs.
Some went back and were able to get builders to fix the issue.
I've never heard of the framing anchoring being something that was focused on.
I know as mine was built there were huge lag bolts set into the top of the poured concrete walls, and the base framing boards were attached to these bolts. I don't remember how many.
But I feel like they had to be every 6 feet or so ? I can dig up all my pics if this detail is important.. Maybe more frequently spaced even. I'm not a home builder expert, so is this even considered an attachment point like you all are referencing ?
So a little context, the likelihood of this weather event for my area was extremely astronomical.. and it's easy to Monday morning quarterback the whole situation / event.
Fortunately no one was hurt since we all have basements.
This area is known to get the northern latitude hurricanes .. (i.e. Irene 2011..and sandy 2012).. and we had very little issues in the entire area from those. So I think they do build the homes around here with cat 1 hurricanes in mind, but certainly not ef3 twisters.
I'm a life long weather enthusiast.
Minored in meteorology in college.
And I live in Mullica Hill less than a quarter mile from said leveled home.
And was home filming as the funnel skirted by me about 200 yards away.
I had zero damage nor any debris in my yard.. but right across the street from me was when it started. Missing shingles , siding. Minor stuff. Even the homes in the back of my development which were more or less in line with the Salvatore home, were just trees down siding shingles but no blown out walls.
Now a little background: ( this is the tl;dr didn't read part. )
The Salvatore home was built in 2010 by the builder Ryan homes if that helps. They had the reputation of being one of the lower end builders purely because they were just so big as a corporation..bad customer service...etc.. I can't speak to that about the quality (at least when I was looking at a house in 2008)..all I remember is my real estate friend / agent steering us away from them, and I never really questioned after that.
I live in a home built in 2008 by a different builder called Orleans.
They were out of BenSalem PA and considered one of the better ones, still mom and pop owned and ran. ..etc.
I was lucky they finished mine before the real estate crash.
Orleans went bankrupt in 2009, and well let the corner cutting begin for everyone. (keep in mind the Salvatore home was built in 2010 by Ryan homes).
Sooooooo....There was quite a bit of scuttlebutt in the community at the time, and the subsequent years after, about homes built after the crash 2009+ not being built properly and corners cut.
Of particular issue was the fact a lot weren't framed with shear wall specs.
Some went back and were able to get builders to fix the issue.
I've never heard of the framing anchoring being something that was focused on.
I know as mine was built there were huge lag bolts set into the top of the poured concrete walls, and the base framing boards were attached to these bolts. I don't remember how many.
But I feel like they had to be every 6 feet or so ? I can dig up all my pics if this detail is important.. Maybe more frequently spaced even. I'm not a home builder expert, so is this even considered an attachment point like you all are referencing ?
So a little context, the likelihood of this weather event for my area was extremely astronomical.. and it's easy to Monday morning quarterback the whole situation / event.
Fortunately no one was hurt since we all have basements.
This area is known to get the northern latitude hurricanes .. (i.e. Irene 2011..and sandy 2012).. and we had very little issues in the entire area from those. So I think they do build the homes around here with cat 1 hurricanes in mind, but certainly not ef3 twisters.
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