The weather is beginning to remind me of those hokey disaster movies, but for real. Protecting our buildings is becoming a priority to deal with it.
Month: June 2011
Growing Costs of Extreme Weather
A study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research estimates that the bottom-line cost of all the meteorological craziness is a staggering $485 billion per year in the U.S. alone, as much as 3.4% of the country’s GDP.
Weather experts at NOAA say that there is a 90% chance that the tropical wave will become a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico within the next 48 hours. Most likely target: Eastern Mexico, unless it makes a turn to the north.
Tropical Wave – Near Cancun, Mexico

Tropical wave forms in Bay of Campeche. May or may not strengthen into Tropical storm…
Today I found myself in the clouds, watching spinning wheels. On the top of a Houston skysraper we went through a maze, a prestigious law office, ladders, a steel door – and the top cooling tower machines that keep a modern building alive in the 21st century.
Last week I gave a presentation to AIA architects in Houston. At the beginning I asked the group of about 25 people “How many know about ‘security window film’?” About four hands went up.
Second Pacific Hurricane Spinning

It’s early in the Hurricane season and the eastern Pacific off Mexico has already produced two storms – Beatriz is pounding Acapulco so don’t plan a trip there this week!

Too bad the businesses in Vancouver did not have Armor Glass security film on their store fronts – it would have kept the rioters from breaking in and carrying off inventory.
It’s OFFICIAL. Armor Glass® is now officially registered as a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. I highly recommend Wendy Buskop’s law office which helped make it happen.
The temperature forecast for Houston this week is: NO rain, and highs of 99, 99, 98, 99 etc. See a pattern?
So HOW do you get both hurricane and burglar protection AND solar HEAT relief? With Armor Glass security film.