How do I tape windows for a hurricane?

The best was to prepare for a hurrican:

1)get an uncushioned straight backed chair

2) sit on it with your head between your knees

3) kiss your ass good-bye.

People are blind to their surroundings. The majority are contained to what they are told as well as to what "the other guy" is doing. Use common sense! If you have a 6'x6' glass window and a hurricane is approaching, do you honestly thing that by placing a 2" wide X from corner to corner is going to solve anything? I read post after post of people claiming, "It won't keep the window from breaking, but it keeps the glass from becoming projectiles!" You've GOT to be kidding me!? If anything, the 2" X that you carefully place on your potentially dangerous, flying shard of glass, will leave behind enough sticky residue to force purchasing a new pane anyway! Half of the population are too lazy to remove the tape soon after the storm, that it gets baked on by the sun a week later! If that's the case, you've avoided nothing (financially) and will "still" have to purchase a new pane of glass.

To argue the "X" and stopping glass projectiles... this may make sense if the window in question was maybe a 4"x4" pane on a french door, but nothing larger. Use your brains... if the sole purpose of taping your windows is to reduce flying glass (since folks are so partial to this particular precaution) it would be logical to cover every inch of glass within the window frame. At that time, the tape would "possibly" mimic the response you would get when shattering a windshield on a car. However, glass can also easily penetrate duct tape if attacked from the right angle.

In my opinion, the tape serves nothing more than a convenient way to justify poor planning or limited resources ($$$) in order to properly secure your home and protect yourself and family. It creates more of a headache during the storm (if the window was to break) as well as clean up afterward (if the window is perfectly fine). Plan, plan, plan.

[Not sure how many store fronts carry "hurricane tape" (probably the same thing as "riggers tape", but with clever merchandising) Most people run for the duct tape as it's readily available and cost effective]

Tape I am not sure of but I know that people use Storm Shutters and plywood to cover their windows in storm areas. I have heard of hurricane tape but I can only see that it would keep a window from shattering from the winds or impact of flying derbies were hardened covers will protect the glass from being broken in the first place.

Hope your not in a hurricane asking this question

Maybe your question is just one of general curiousity.

But if it isn't I don't mean to be cynical-if you have to ask a question like that should you be living where you do?

I really don't see how any kind of tape would have any effect at all. Except magical anti-hurricane tape.

first, go to a big box hardware store like home depot and find where the "hurricane" tape is.
now laugh your ass off at the idiots buying it before going to the other end of the store and buying enough ply wood/particle board to cover all your windows.

1 •Get a roll of masking tape. You will want to use a wide roll of tape instead of the thin type. Any thick type of tape will do, but you need to think about which tape will be the easiest to peel off the windows. Masking tape is usually quite easy to remove.

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Outline your windows with the tape by putting it along the outer edges of the windows. Do this for the outside side of the windows.

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Once the outer edges are outlined, put a big "X" of masking tape on the outside of the window.

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Do this for every window in the house. A hurricane could damage any and every window so it is best not to leave any without tape.

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Repeat steps 2 and 3 on the inside part of your windows to be twice as safe.



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just put a post it note on the window. the sticky is stronge enough to hold the glass together and the thickness of the paper will provide enough shock protection for impacts up to a 6 foot 4*4 going 160mph.

am I the only person sick of AB staff asking a question just so they can answer it and give themselves points?

Dont worry about the dam windows fool, RUN!

You're going to tape your windows for protection from a hurricane? Good luck with that.

Ya'd probably be better taking the window out and storing it in the basement - glass doesnt float.

Although you may be stressed out for the oncoming hurricane, taping windows can be quite simple.
Take duct tape, nothing weaker, tape two layers with the duct tape on each side of the window. This should keep your windows safe, and you safe

you don't.this is a waste of time.

Tape is obsolete. Instead, use a digital camera and use a DVD instead of tape. After the hurricane, you'll be able to see on your high-def wide-screen TV what your windows looked like before the hurricane.

I really don't know and I don't know how to tape them for a tornado either. Of course, that wouldn't help anyway. The tape would fly away with the rest of the house.

With wood and nails.

The power of the hurricane also matter very much!

tape up everything...then grab a bottle of tequila and run like hell!!!

errr........ with miles & miles of tape!

maybe around the edges? just put a square strip in the middle of the glass.