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Armor Glass® International, Inc. was founded by Michael Fjetland, a 9/11 TV terrorism analyst and Fortune 500-trained international entrepreneur. Michael established Armor Glass® to provide state-of-the-art security technology to the public to protect their “weakest link”— windows—from breach by storms, explosions or humans and save enough energy to pay for itself.

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Armor Glass International, Inc.

1 day ago

HURRICANE season starts in 1 week, and look how HOT the Gulf waters are already!

With Gulf storms we have seen a storm go from un-named to a CAT 3 landfall in 24 hours, leaving virtually no chance to prepare.

So "Armor your Glass" - the weakest link of your building which easily breaks, allowing winds to tear your house apart.

Do it BEFORE one of these beasts are coming at us. Because its TOO LATE to call at that point.

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Forecasters closely monitoring the tropics for possible next storm development

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6 days ago

TORNADOES are ripping across North Texas and Oklahoma as I write. 85 reported since Friday. It turns from San Angelo to north of Oklahoma City.

Tornadoes destroy like hurricanes -- they throw debris through the windows, causing instant UPLIFT on the roof which blows roof off and walls out. That is how it blows your house/building apart! HAIL will break windows and allow damaging wind and rain inside. You can do something to protect yourself.

Armor Glass security film "armors your glass" so that impacts won't easily breach the windows and glass doors. It will keep hail from breaching your glass and damaging the interior.

Every year these threats will continue. We live in "Houses of Straw" and need to armor the weakest link, the windows, or watch them blow away in the wind, with people still inside. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

Hurricanes destroy in 2 ways:
(1) High winds breaches weak glass, uplifts roof and destroys structures and
(2) Rising waters that create a storm surge so that even an inch getting into your house does thousands in damages.

After Hurricane IKE devastated the Houston area in 2008, little has been done to protect us from the next "big one." It took several years to get any momentum for a protective barrier. Texans acted immediately after the storm of 1900 killed thousands -- and raised the island 15 feet within a couple of years. But after 2008, our leaders went to sleep - to be awaken only by three 500 year storm events in three consecutive years.

Hurricane Harvey in 2017 proved to be a "water event" that did the most damage by flooding homes, many of which had never been flooded before.

Houston is home to hundreds of refineries and chemical plants. Another storm swamping them will spill toxins into Galveston Bay (where people fish and catch shrimp and oysters). This would disrupt gasoline and chemical chains across the entire USA. However, we can fix this and we have two options - the long and the short.

The Army Corps of Engineers is working on an "IKE Dike" plan that would build 70 miles of "seawall," but in typical bureaucratic fashion they are still "planning" and wouldn't start building for another 5 years and would take 20 years to build! By then we'll all be underwater! It would cost over $20 billion (still far less than the damages from even one storm but more than available in Texas).

Fortunately, their is a way to do the same for far less money and time. Rice University's SSPEED Center under Jim Blackburn has an innovative plan that could be FINISHED within 7 years, saving both time and costs necessary to "armor our coast."

They propose using our existing ship channel "spoil" -- the dredge material when they deepen the channel. The channel needs to be widened so they could use that extra material to make it a "Bay Park" that essentially is a storm surge barrier.

Add a couple of GATES to be closed when a storm comes, and the whole thing could be done in 7 years for $5 billion -- much more affordable and practical! Compare that to the $125 BILLION in damages caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017!

Here are a couple shots of how they envision it would look. First photo is looking down on Galveston Bay with Houston suburbs to the left. The second photo is of the park.

They need to widen the Ship channel by dredging. That "spoil" becomes a sand dune next to the channel. Beef those up so that they are higher and "Viola!" you have a "Green Ike Dike."

I encourage you to support this effort. We have wasted years by doing NOTHING after a series of these deadly storms. The Dutch (who live below sea level) have been doing dikes for centuries. Their engineers have passed that expertise on to us. Let's use it.

Doing nothing is a recipe for more misery and costs that are avoidable -- IF we take action NOW. After all, we have hurricane season EVERY year, for half of the year. And they are getting BIGGER as the planet temperatures increase. Warmer air has bigger water molecules, which means higher rates of rainfall and higher winds!

Contact Jim Blackburn at the SSPEED Center to see what you can do to help. The sooner we act the sooner we will have protection from the next "big one."

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Armor Glass International, Inc.

1 week ago

Hurricane season does not start until June 1 --and storms dont normally start rolling until August or September -- but we already have the seasons first tropical storm forming!

This could mean an early start to the season. Get prepared now.

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Trouble in the tropics already? Hurricane center watching Atlantic

If anything forms it will likely not affect the U.S.

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2 weeks ago

Meanwhile, on the OTHER SIDE of the planet, Hurricane FANI wiped out 1/3 of India's crops...Will this soon be our fate as our season begins in 2 weeks?

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153 000 ha (378 000 acres) of crops damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Fani, India

An estimated 152 985 ha (378 034 acres) of crops were damaged or destroyed across Odisha, India during the passage of Tropical Cyclone "Fani" on May 3, 2019. Information and Public Relations Secretary Sanjay Kumar Singh said less than 33% ...

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3 weeks ago

Houston is on Weather Channel today - yesterday and overnight we had 3 to 12 inches, some of it falling at 6.5 inches PER HOUR! Even places in North Texas are under water.

In 18 hours, Sugar Land (burb of Houston in the south) had over 12 inches of rain and same thing was happening in Kingwood to the north. Residents say it felt worse than Hurricane Harvey when it seemed like we were living under a waterfall for a week!

The forecast is for more of these micro-Harveys-like storms pounding us next few days.THIS is Climate change folks. Denying it won't make it go away -- or cause less damage. Extreme weather events are now "normal."

Harvey was just 2 years ago--our 3rd 500 year storm in the past 3 years. So in reality 500 year storms are now an annual event! Harvey was ranked as a thousand year event. But the next one is not 1,000 years away: its already happening again this year! It will happen again next year.

The best strategy you can follow is to prepare. How? Read on. We have to address it inside of sticking our heads in the sand thinking that not seeing the wolf approaching will avoid becoming its meal. The military said climate change is a national security threat. It is costing us BILLIONS each year in losses like this: flooded cars and houses.

So we need to do 2 things for future storms: (1) Flood engineering - which means adding systems for storm water removal, and adopting new technology like permeable concrete to let water soak in and building higher off the ground as well as (2) upgrading the weakest link of every building (its glass) to prepare for future storms (when glass fails winds enter and uplift your roof.)

We are living in "Houses of Straw." Armor Glass can't protect you from high water but we can "armor your glass" from the hurricane-force winds that are also the biggest threat to the security of your house or business from these increasingly bigger storms generated by hotter air.

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Houses of Straw Houses of Wood by Michael Fjetland (eBook) - Lulu

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1 month ago

Weather is still insane down south....a sign of what is to come for us this hurricane season? ... See MoreSee Less

Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique braces for strengthening Tropical Cyclone Kenneth

A new tropical threat in the southern Indian Ocean may bring life-threatening weather to parts of Mozambique and Tanzania later this week.

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1 month ago

Africa is about to get hit with a SECOND Hurricane after being devastated a few weeks ago.

This is what is happening as the southern hemisphere reaches its peak heat after its summer.

It could be a sign of what is to come when our own northern hemisphere heats up this coming summer. Get prepared now because its too late to call when the storm has a name...

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Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique braces for strengthening Tropical Cyclone Kenneth

A new tropical threat in the southern Indian Ocean may bring life-threatening weather to parts of Mozambique and Tanzania later this week.

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1 month ago

Armor Glass just finished putting security film on a jewelry store in a border city that has had 4 break-ins the past 4 years.

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1 month ago

Check out this video on "Tornado Myths" like opening your windows. Wrong!

P.S. The reason a brick home isn't safer is that the wind-borne debris thrown by the tornado knocks out the windows. THAT uplifts the roof! Here is a photo example..

April has joined May and June for busy Tornadoes...

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2 months ago

Here is Direct Evidence of the difference of having Armor Glass film --and not-- during a Hurricane.

Below are photos of 2 buildings hit by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

One of them was a Whataburger that had Armor Glass film installed on it before the storm. Notice the difference in the glass - I took the photo personally, knowing that we had done that store and I wanted to ask the manager if they had any window breaches. He said: "NONE."

The other building had regular windows. Notice the difference in result? It's windows are now boarded up because they were blown out during Harvey. The building was severely damaged - costing the owners and the residents misery, a fate that Whataburger avoided because of Armor Glass security film.

Whataburger didn't have broken glass, which would have shut them down for repairs for months. Their staff could safety "shelter in place" during the storm (since they are open 24/7) and not worry about a window breaking and injuring them or customers with flying glass.

They didn't have to try to "board up" before the storm to avoid the broken windows that their neighboring building had.

As I said, they are now boarded up because they were all blown out in the Hurricane! The building is a wreck. If they had Armor Glass protection, they would still be in operation just like Whataburger.

"Armor Your Glass" with Armor Glass. It pays for itself in many ways multiple times over. Don't delay let your building be the photo on the top the next time a storm hits. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Don't let this happen to you! Snake oil salesmen do exist in the Security Film business just like all the others. Here is what to watch for.

My sales rep called on a customer who also had a quote from a different company. That company tried to see them a 6 mil film -- which is NOT rated for large missile impact. Take nothing less than 8 mil. But that's not all.

WORSE - they told the customer that "you don't need to bond tempered glass." That is the OPPOSITE of true!

Plate glass does not require frame bonding but TEMPERED glass ALWAYS requires frame bonding - or else it will fall out when struck.

Make sure you deal with a company that is honest about security. 8 Mil Armor Glass film is a must. ALL we do is Security Film - we won't install anything less.

We ALWAYS do frame bonding if the glass is tempered (like doors in homes or commercial building glass which is all tempered).

See why at our website and then ask for a Free Quote.
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2 months ago

A crew is on way back in heavy traffic...and RAIN.

Yes, we even do Saturday work when there is no choice. This was a college and off hours for the work was the only choice.

They went with Armor Glass Silver to cut view into their safe area... ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Armor Glass answers questions and some of them are pretty unusual. Here is the latest:

"Hello,
With these idiots throwing rocks and what not off bridges. I would
like to put this on the windshields of my family vehicles. What type
of application do you have for that and what is the cost?

Thank you
Todd"

I wish I could tell Todd that Armor Glass would work on a curved windshield -- windshields already have a film laminate like Armor Glass on the INSIDE of the glass as a safety feature so that upon impact the glass doesn't become shards slicing the occupants inside the car. It just wasn't thick enough to stop a large rock.

In fact, I have a thin film on the inside of my Transit van that has a huge front window, but that is for screening out UV, not security. If I could get our film on it, I would have done so.

I have put our 8 mil film on some of the windows of another van I owned when I was doing a trade show on the border and worried about the glass being broken on one of the side windows. It actually worked! The side windows only curve one way and the film will do them. But it has its limits.

It can't work when the window curves in two directions. I put it on the back window that has two curves. It looked terrible. The same problem would be on the front window - it has two curves, so the film can't lay flat on the glass as it can on the side curved windows.

You say "but they put tint film on those back windows" and I would say yes they do -- but it is very thin 2 mil film that they use a heat gun to partially melt it so it takes on the shape of the back window. Only then can they put it on the inside of the glass.

The problem with a 2 mil film is that it provides zero security - a rock would go right through it as if it were butter.

That is why we only sell an 8 mil mil because that is the thickness required to pass the large missile impact tests, blast tests, hurricane-force wind test, etc.

So sorry, our film cannot easily be curved to fit the inside of a windshield to prevent a rock tossed from a bridge from going though the windshield and killing a driver or passenger.

But on buildings we don't have the curve problem and our 8 mil Armor Glass film has kept burglars from breaking into homes and offices of our clients. It is right now protecting buildings glass from the next hurricane-force winds.

And today it is protecting school entrances from shooters....24/7/365 days a year.

Find out what it can do for you with a free quote for a house or storefront. Sorry we can't do cars.

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Window Security Film - Armor Glass®

Our solar/hurricane film is the best USA-made, certified window security film available and costs a fraction of impact glass and shutters.

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2 months ago

Two words: Prepare NOW.

Australia has the opposite seasons as us. They are peaking out their storm season with CAT 4 hurricanes bashing the coast (they call them 'cyclones' south of the equator but its the same thing.) One landed with winds of 155 miles per hour!

Their summer now will be our summer in the coming months as the seasons rotate. If their experience tells us anything, PREPARE for the worst and hope for the best.

Hurricane winds destroy by breaking the glass, causing uplift on the roof. Save the glass, save the building.

Armor Glass is designed to "armor the glass" you have with our high tech, high strength, impact-rated security films that also cut solar heat and dangerous UV. All for a fraction of what shutters costs with none of the pain of messing with heavy, ugly plywood.

The same film has kept BURGLARS from breaking in and is also used by SCHOOLS for shooter protection. What else does all that?

Ask for free quote today. Because if we get a CAT 4 storm, it is too late to call.

Be Prepared. Get a quote at: www.ArmorGlass.com

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Australia braces for tropical cyclones

A severe tropical cyclone made landfall in north Australia on Saturday with wind gusts of up to 250 km/h (155 mph), and another is approaching the west of the country.

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2 months ago

Armor Glass just updated our website. Please check it out!

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Window Security Film - Armor Glass®

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2 months ago

While we have entered SPRING in the northern hemisphere, it is end of summer in the southern hemisphere...which offers a prelude to our own summer ahead.

Right now, Australia is being hit by TWO cyclones (what they call hurricanes) - one is already a CAT 4!

This means we should see an active storm season in the months ahead. Get prepared NOW. When glass windows fail from hits by windborne debris, that is what leads to roof uplift and structural collapse.

Get a free quote before one of these monsters appears on our radar...

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Australia braces for tropical cyclones

A severe tropical cyclone made landfall in north Australia on Saturday with wind gusts of up to 250 km/h (155 mph), and another is approaching the west of the country.

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2 months ago

Here are some photos of commercial and residential clients of Armor Glass who had burglar break-in attempts after we put our security film on their glass.

In each case, the burglar FAILED to get in! In one case, a woman was home alone. For details and a free quote check out our website ...

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4 months ago

Just got a call from another homeowner who said their neighborhood is having a lot of break-ins and wanted a quote.

Ironically, she found out about us by seeing one of our vans in the Houston Medical Center. We've been doing some work for one of the hospitals there recently (VIP area, etc.).

Every piece of glass on the planet is an accident waiting to happen and needs our impact-rated Armor Glass® film covering it to keep it from causing injury, damage or death.

In our history, Armor Glass® security film has kept the following horrible acts from happening:

1) Prevented a child from being bloodied and scared after running into and breaking a large window. No blood, screams, stitches, trip to ER. No ruined event.

2) Prevented a woman from being confronted by a burglar who threw a stone into her bedroom glass wall when no one answered his knock on the front door. Stones go through regular glass. It bounced off Armor Glass®.

3) Prevented houses from being damaged by hurricanes and eliminated the need to "board up" windows. No need to store bug-infested plywood for years or ask for Superman to lift heavy sheets of wood two stories up.

3) Prevented an out-of-control motorcyclist from flying through the glass of a restaurant he hit. His body would have flown through the glass and injured or killed diners inside, resulting in millions in legal and medical costs and horrible headlines for the owner.

4) Prevented numerous break-in's in offices, stores and houses of our clients.

5) Prevented errant golf balls from blasting through windows, spraying thousands of glass particles over entire rooms, slicing anyone stepping on the smallest piece. Armor Glass® film captured it all--no clean up required.

Armor Glass is now guarding school entrances, homes of retired teachers and glass at NASA's Mission Control.

In addition to the above it also cuts solar heat 50% or more and 99% of harmful UV. Even our clear film 8 mil cuts 21% of solar heat and 99% UV. It's the most affordable security technology available. And its an energy saver.

Check us out and ask for a quote to prevent a bad day due to fragile, dangerous glass. Armor it today.

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Window Security Film - Armor Glass®

Our solar/hurricane film is the best USA-made, certified window security film available and costs a fraction of impact glass and shutters.

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4 months ago

I can't say "who" this happened to, but it happened.

This week we were asked to go to a pharmacy that is in the middle of the TX Medical Center. Safe place, right?

It turns out that someone in the night broke a glass window on their pharmacy, and stole meds (opiates of course).

WHY someone thought a glass wall and a pharmacy were a good combination is a good question. But glass anywhere is just an "accident waiting to happen"

So they want us to "armor the glass" to prevent another "smash and grab." Once we do, they can bash away but there will be no payday.

That's what we do. Make life hell on burglars when they try to break in our our clients.

They hate us but we love the work messing up their day. Check us out at www.ArmorGlass.com ... See MoreSee Less

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4 months ago

I just got an email from a guy in Northern Ireland who said:

"I live in Northern Ireland and I am sure there would be a strong market for your product here and throughout the UK.
Best regards
Henry"

Here is my response back to him (with some history added in for those who don't remember):

"Henry:

Ironically, the development of our product, generically known as security window film, had its start in Northern Ireland. The need for the technology of protecting windows from blast waves from explosions arose during the 70's series of car bombings called "the troubles" in Northern Ireland. (That was when car bombs were due to IRA (Irish Republican army), not Al Qaida that didn't exist then.)

The manufacturer has dealers where you are. I hope there isn't a return to the troubles due to Brexit. I have been to Limerick and Dublin and really liked the Irish people. Glad to hear from you.
Best,
Michael"

I once met a guy from Northern Ireland who told me what happened. He said that the IRA would call the police and say something like "Car bomb is going off in 2 minutes." (unlike Al Qaida and ISIS, who never give warnings).

The police would hit a button and sirens would blare. He said: "When you heard the siren, you ran away from the windows as fast as you could --because when the blast wave hit the windows, the glass exploded into people's faces!"

A glass grenade kills as easily as one made of steel. So that is when they first developed this special film to put on glass to contain it when broken. It didn't catch on in the U.S. until the 911 wake up call. In 2002, over 500,000 s.f. of the same 8 mil security film that Armor Glass sells today was put on Washington DC federal buildings from the Pentagon to Congress to the White House.

It's still there, doing its job. The same film also provides hurricane and tornado protection, which kill buildings by hurling debris through the glass, causing instant uplift as the winds try to find a way out. That leads to structural damage or collapse.

The identical film is being used by schools to keep shooters at the glass entrance instead of blowing out the glass in 2 seconds and disappearing down a hallway inside a giant building where they can do horrible stuff until police can find them. Our film will delay them at the glass entrance, where police can see them -- and engage to take them out. Nothing else on the market works as well and is affordable.

Armor Glass® saves lives in many ways. And it saves energy costs, cuts solar heat and harmful UV rays. Every pane of glass on the planet should have it on it.

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4 months ago

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Worried about Break-ins, Shooters or Storms? A solution...

For Immediate Release Feb. 2, 2019 The need for additional security to protect fragile glass in buildings has become more important in the past few years due to break-ins, vandalism, theft, and damage from severe weather events.

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4 months ago

In less than 1 minute we show what happens when burglars hit glass on which we have installed our security film and frame bonding... ... See MoreSee Less

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4 months ago

Just got this email from an architect:

"I installed Armor Glass film on my old home. I just purchased a new home and would like have you guys look at and quote a price to install the same armor glass security film. You guys have an amazing product."

And check this out. Our security film was on the glass front door of this condo when a guy tried to break in...he didn't get in. The neighbor called 911 and watched him try to get in for 10 minutes - until the police showed up and arrested him prior to entry.

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4 months ago

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