Garage doors and Hurricane Francine

Open all doors and windows in your house. Need to get as much wind in your home as possible to test the roof. Also remove your chimney.

You have to delpressurize it

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Loves open doors

I'd finish building that half wall up before the storm.

Best to at least leave garage door open about a foot. Leave windows in house cracked.

I parked my Truck and my wife's SUV, backed in facing into the wind, in front my garage doors for Ida. The wind blew out of the east directly into the doors, it didn't affect them at all.

Kept my similar setup closed during Katrina. It got ripped off and landed on my car where the door rested and moved around for hours, digging into the paint on several surfaces. Hadn’t really thought about it, but had to pay separate deductibles, one for auto and the other for home.

Had a detached shed built in 2023. 30 x 30. Two 10’ doors front facing East and one offset 8’ door facing West.
Builder (25 years experience in buildout and repair) advised to move as much contents as possible to the solid corner and wrap with a tarp.
Open doors all the way and secure them.
This will result in the least amount of damage to doors and door frames which are the most damaged in a storm.
Depending on the path of the storm, I will give it a try and report back.

For Ida my neighbor left his 2 doors closed and received major damage.

I was told to backup a vehicle snug against it in the middle ro both sides and that will do the trick. Just put a blanket between them.

Gustav blew in my garage door and it wrapped nicely around my car.

To avoid that, you can leave it open. Although, I believe that might lead to certain other unintended results.