do many houses in Houston, Tecas have home with basement to be safe from the hurricane like you are going to be safe from the Tornadoes? Also do Houston, Texas have a Hurricane Siren like the tornado Siren?
2007-09-19 07:33:18 · 9 answers · asked by Matthew Zajac 3 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Houston
While we are NOT going to sink into the ground (there is an urban legend that says Houston's water table is only three feet down, but it is not at all true), our ground is soft and not best for basements. In addition, a basement is the last place you want to be in a hurricane.
Suppose, for example, your street floods up onto your lawn. I saw that in town during Alison in '83. Water came within a few feet of the front door. Imagine a little more rain causing more flooding. Every home I've been in (lived in, visited in, et cetera) with basements have windows for sunlight. A little water pressure from a flooded yard on those windows and your basement floods.
To be safe from tornadoes the best thing to do is be in an interior room that does not have outside access. Why? Flying glass.
Houston does not need a hurricane siren because we have ample warning to know a hurricane is coming. They don't just appear over your swimming pool. Even two weeks ago, when Humberto appeared, it was offshore, and even if it moved three times faster we'd still have time to prepare. If you want to be safe from a hurricane, board up your windows (I already have my window sheet plywood pre-cut, and have masonry clips to keep them in place for up to a Category 2.) and stay indoors. If you are closer to the coast, and the storm is Category 3 or higher, leave town.
Check out this map with the evacuation routes:
http://www.ktrh.com/pages/weather.html
2007-09-19 14:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A big thing about hurricanes is the ten to twenty foot storm surge. It would flood a basement if the house was too close to the waterline. Hurricane winds aren't as destructive as tornadoes. The winds of a hurricane won't flatten a town like a tornado unless the town is right on the coast and the storm is an F5. I've been through a hurricane. It's just harrowing, but not too scary unless its a big one.
2007-09-19 07:52:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most houses closest to the coast are on stilts to avoid flooding. As far as sirens by the time a hurricane is close enough to hit most residence have already evacuated. You have plenty of advance notice of a hurricane unlike a tornado.
2007-09-19 10:08:56 · answer #3 · answered by Texas Happy Horn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha. that is a good question! no, bc even if the ground was stable enough to have a basement, chances are it would flood from a hurricane. and like others said, there is no hurricane siren. the news people keep good track of the hurricanes and tropical storms. if it is a threat, the local and state government put the word out for what areas need to evacuate. from there it is everybody for themselves.
2007-09-19 11:25:38 · answer #4 · answered by nickisbox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No houses have basements in Houston because the house would sink into the ground. There's no bedrock here and we're basically right on the water table.
We don't have a hurricane siren. Otherwise it would be howling at us for days.
If it's raining out, we head for cover. Ha.
2007-09-19 07:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
hear to me, i'm in long island and we are having a hurricane too and that i will inform you the main secure place to bypass yet first of all do not hear to different peoples BS approximately staying interior the basement or cellar. Thats only stupid, and via a hurricane there is potentional for flooding and the heavy rain and robust winds will only flood your basement and you'd be properly trapped. Winds would be especially solid, blowing rain and water everywhere and it will only be messy and frightening. maximum secure place to be for the duration of a hurricane on your place is everywhere with out any living house windows, prefferably the optimal floor (like an attic case in point) if ability for flooding. what could additionally be solid is hiding in a closet additionally. yet PLEASE have a flashlight with you, your cellular telephone completely charged via fact the potential could run out, nutrition, water, and in line with threat a video game or 2 to maintain your entertained (or your ipod! or workstation!) i will could desire to declare, us east coast everybody is approximately to be rocked. P.S. i would be hiding interior the closet then basement with my DS XD
2016-12-17 05:17:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and they do have safe places to go in the event of such desterous storms
2007-09-19 17:19:44 · answer #7 · answered by ღOMGღ 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Sorry most houses don't :(
2007-09-19 15:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It floods.... think about it.
2007-09-20 06:44:07 · answer #9 · answered by melp1010 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋