Collection of Perishable Data on Woodframe Residential Structures in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Case Study #9

Name Assigned: Older neighborhood

Address: Unknown

Coordinates: Unknown

Structure Description: The neighborhood was estimated to have been built in the early to mid 1970s.

Failure Description: House 101 had a hip roof that lost some sheathing in the high pressure area at the bottom of the roof. Deterioration was observed on at least one of the roof rafters. It appeared that there was an inadequate amount of fasteners for wind uplift.

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