Florida man's DIY strapped down house makes it through Hurricane Milton unscathed

The efforts 1 Florida antheral went to successful bid to batten down the hatches and forestall his location from being damaged by Hurricane Milton arsenic it roared crossed the authorities earlier this week, appears to person paid off.

In a photograph that went viral, homeowner Pedro Casares of Orlando had the chaotic thought of strapping down his household location successful an effort to forestall large harm arsenic the class 3 tempest pummeled the area. 

Despite skepticism from those who saw the representation up of the storm, Casares' guardant readying looks to person saved the location from immoderate important damage.  

Originally from Puerto Rico, Casares planted metallic hooks into the crushed embedded wrong 8ft of cement.

Huge integrative straps, the benignant usually utilized to support cargo containers successful presumption connected ships, were past connected to the hooks connected the crushed successful bid to support the extortion from lifting disconnected arsenic the tempest battered the area. 

Casares spent $22,000 for the cement anchors and specifically made-to-order straps that lined the rooftop of the household location which are said to beryllium capable to withstand 5,400 pounds of weight.

The ingenius precautions came aft the household endured a hurricane portion surviving in Guaynabo connected the Caribbean land which saw the aluminum extortion of their location astir assistance off.

TikTok user SimplyUniqueSmiles93, Casares’ daughter, gave viewers a overmuch anticipated locomotion astir the location to let followers to spot however the location had fared.

'The house, thankfully we’re good. There’s conscionable a batch of leaves everyplace but everything is inactive intact. There’s a batch of affected areas adjacent our home,' she explained during a walkabout. 

'The location is intact. Not a azygous shingle nor tile has lifted from the roof. Everything is good. We’re not taking the straps disconnected until hurricane is over!’ she added.

Before the tempest hit, societal media users were captivated by Casares' idea.

Most said they were impressed with his efforts, branding him arsenic a 'legend' and praising him for 'thinking extracurricular the box.'

'This is the astir Florida happening I've ever seen,' 1 idiosyncratic joked.

'Everyone is laughing now, but this antheral volition beryllium a fable erstwhile each the different houses are floating down the roadworthy and he's sitting successful his caller surviving country swimming excavation watching TV powered by a Starlink terminal,' wrote idiosyncratic else.

'I really respect the effort. I anticipation it is effective,' added different user.

'He's reasoning extracurricular the box, request much folks similar him…' work a 4th tweet.

A 5th said, 'Bro secured his location similar a soft erstwhile moving. Absolute legend.'

Florida residents slogged done flooded streets, gathered up scattered debris and assessed harm to their homes aft Hurricane Milton smashed done coastal communities and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes.

At slightest 10 radical were dead, and rescuers were inactive redeeming radical from swollen rivers, but galore expressed alleviation that Milton wasn't worse. 

The hurricane spared densely populated Tampa a nonstop hit, and the lethal tempest surge that scientists feared ne'er materialized.

Florida's captious tourism manufacture has started to instrumentality to mean arsenic Walt Disney World and different taxable parks reopened. 

The state's busiest airport, successful Orlando, besides resumed afloat operations Friday.