DAMN! High winds blew in my glass window

[yuiyoshida]

Last edited Sun Mar 6, 2016, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)

there are shards of glass every where... and on my bedding as well.



(is fixed to Are. Thanks, edit.)

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. careful there

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. And the coastal flood advisory just went up

scanner is on

[yuiyoshida]

7. cut my fingers on a few shards

picking them up putting them in the garbage... I have to send an email to my land lady, gonna need a new window. All there is now is a screen, which I am grateful the cat can't get out.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. do you havre leather gloves?

If not use the broom...

[yuiyoshida]

14. no gloves, but there is

glass on my bedding, i will have to shake it out in the garage i guess in a bit. :/

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. It is the fine shards that might be a problem

If you have some duck tape, you can use it to stick those without getting yourself cut further.

[yuiyoshida]

21. oh yeah good idea

thanks. I guess with the heater on and the window open, there's gonna be some strange weather inside my apartment!

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. You welcome

[drray23]

31. maybe tape a piece of cardboard until they fix it ?.nt.

[hedda_foil]

35. Do you have another set of sheets? Tiny slivers of glass will have worked into the fabric.

If there's any way to avoid sleeping on or under those sheets until you can wash them, please just do it.

[Nictuku]

2. YIKES!

Very windy here in the north bay.

[daleanime]

3. Welcome to the future....

thank you so much climate deniers.

Please keep yourself as safe as possible.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Get out of here

you mean to tell me that these wonderful heat waves in the middle of February are not normal?

[daleanime]

11. I know, hard to believe that they're not....

God's little blessing. Not looking forwards to what food supplies will be like.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. I am waiting for the words "CLIMATE CHANGE" to cross the lips of my local

weather news models. I called them on it by the way in an article recently.

[PoliticAverse]

5. That blows. Do you live on a high floor? n/t

[yuiyoshida]

8. garage level

I will be picking up glass for a week.

[Qutzupalotl]

34. A small hand vac

(Dusbuster or similar) can get the fine bits of glass.

[silvershadow]

10. You may as well have an ear worm, too:

[bravenak]

12. SCARY!!!!

[bravenak]

13. Better find something to nail over that window.

Until you get somebody out there

[yuiyoshida]

16. Theres a screen there...that didn't go

that will keep the cat in but hopefully it won't rain sideways..

[bravenak]

17. Damn! Rain..

If it does tape a garbage bag over it. I've done that, it works.

[yuiyoshida]

20. i have some tape around here some where and

just bought garbage bags, thanks.

[Divernan]

15. Glad you weren't lying on the bed when that happened!

We've had some extraordinarily high winds in SW Pennsylvania - repeatedly blew covers off my outdoor furniture and into the neighbor's yard - that has never happened before. And driving across a local bridge, my car was - I don't even know the descriptive term to use - "shaking"? in the wind. Again, a first.

I'll be checking with my daughter in Oakland to make sure she's OK.

[yuiyoshida]

23. That would have certainly ruined my night

That was a heavy window frame, and glass...that could have kiled me with of those shards being the size of katana blades, and just as sharp.

[brer cat]

24. That is awful!

Thank goodness it didn't land on you or your cat.

[yuiyoshida]

26. my cat was a bit freaked out

glad he was in the room with me.

[brer cat]

28. Mine would still be hiding under something.

I hope you both have a good night.

[spanone]

25. be careful!

[yuiyoshida]

27. yeah for sure

[tabasco]

29. Borrow a shop-vac with lots of power

to sweep that stuff up.

[Skittles]

30. ooh

be VERY careful, yuiyoshida - those tiny shards can be very hard to detect

[kentauros]

32. That sucks!

Cleaning up glass is a pain. And, wear shoes for a while. Glass loves to bounce when it shatters. You might find shards in places you least expect (including other rooms!) Be wary of that for your cat, too.

[Hekate]

33. I'm so sorry!

I hate to say this, but you should probably throw out all the bedding, as there is no way at all to get the fine splinters out of the fabric, and they will be an ongoing danger to you.

Stay safe!

[madfloridian]

36. Guess what you need...

[Divernan]

38. Hugs, yes, and the oft-lampooned MASKING TAPE!

Or whatever kind of tape it is people use when hurricanes are forecast in their areas. Of course, that requires adequate advance warning. It wasn't some heavy object blown into your window and breaking it because you mentioned the screen was still intact.

This has made me think about how I'd respond. I'd close the cellular, insulating blinds I have on all the windows on the windward side of my house - think they'd absorb or deflect broken glass. (Now if I were a One Percenter, I'd have custom-made, shatter proof windows installed.)


Again, glad you were not injured!

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. ..

[Divernan]

39. Record high winds this year at other places

In the South Pacific, for instance, the highest wind speeds ever measured came last month when Tropical Cyclone Winston crashed into Fiji. Entire villages were flattened. In financial terms, the storm wiped out ten percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, roughly equivalent to fifteen simultaneous Hurricane Katrina’s.

This was followed by a few months of the highest wind speeds ever recorded in our hemisphere, when Patricia crashed into the Pacific coast of Mexico.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35575-the-mercury-doesnt-lie-weve-hit-a-troubling-climate-change-milestone

[malaise]

40. Stay safe

[riderinthestorm]

41. How are you this morning? Did you manage to get any sleep?

BIG hug!! So scary!

Hope the landlord can get on it right away.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

42. ARE! There ARE shards of glass ...

Being nearly killed in a storm, having to clean glass from everything, having to type about it with bleeding fingers, these are no excuses for bad grammar!

Kidding, hope this morning you are safe, with life getting back to normal, with your cat calming down. And I hope the hole where your window used to be is patched with something.

Good luck.

[yuiyoshida]

44. Fixed it....

I was too excited (not in a good way) when I wrote it. If I had spoken in Japanese, someone would have flagged it!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

53. I'm sure your words were colorful as the window broke ...

in whatever language came to mind at the time!

At my place, no winds, just light snow. Much calmer.

[NutmegYankee]

43. Wow! Was it a single pane window?

Normally windows can take winds over 130 MPH.

[yuiyoshida]

45. Full window

but Just one.. Wind gust shoved it inwards, the frame hitting a table, shattering glass everywhere.

[NutmegYankee]

46. That sounds like a poor installation.

Other than impact from a object, a window should withstand winds from a thunderstorm/gale, and normally a hurricane.

Was it the safety glass type that shatters into small shards? I still bear the scars from running into a real glass storm door as a little child.

[yuiyoshida]

48. hA!! No, no safety glass...

From my slum lord? Please...I will be lucky if she even replaces it, or charges me for the damage.

[NutmegYankee]

51. Oh, real glass is nasty!

Be careful! You may want to consider a lint roller for checking for the tiny shards.

I hope your landlord does a speedy repair at no cost.

[yuiyoshida]

52. I guess we shall see

I have to send her an email about it.

[AngryAmish]

47. I have a wooden window.

I have to squint between the grain to see the dog outside.

[yuiyoshida]

49. I guess that's better than

tinfoil ,,.

[Orrex]

50. Yikes! What a pane!

Glad no one was hurt!

[stevenleser]

54. Something like this may help in the interim until it is fixed...

http://www.amazon.com/3M-Indoor-Window-Insulator-5-Window/dp/B00002NCJI

During the winter, I use them over the three windows in my apartment that have air conditioners. Works reasonably well and is cheap.

edited to add: Stuff like this is available at your local hardware store too.