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Tornado Lifts Up House on Doorbell Cam

That's an argument for a freestanding deck... I have long taught in my deck code classes that decks do not experience wind pressures in the same way that homes do.
(sorry to sound insensitive, but it's a valid thing to be curious of. Watch the end as the house lifts and the deck remains.)
 
That's an argument for a freestanding deck... I have long taught in my deck code classes that decks do not experience wind pressures in the same way that homes do.
(sorry to sound insensitive, but it's a valid thing to be curious of. Watch the end as the house lifts and the deck remains.)

I am a proponent of free standing decks.
 
Just a few seconds before the clip ends, you see them disappear, or rather, you don't...…

Nice catch Chris.
 
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