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Thanks Meno!!! 😊

Baruch Hashem – Everything held UP!!!! 👍👍☺

Stuffed them with paper towels and taped them shut… some damp paper towels and a few stuck ants… thank G-d they held up!!! Back sliding glass door too ☺

Shabbat Shalom 🔯🔯🔯

Praying for the best here

Thank you btw!!! It’s really scary.

Moshe1994: That’s not practical for them, or the entire state. From what I’ve heard and read, the roads are already full of people in evacuation zones. Plus gas is limited, with many stations empty.

Omgosh it’s true!!!

From Disaster Safety dot org:

“Following rigorous scientific wind testing on a full-scale, 1,400 square foot single-story home in its unique laboratory this summer, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has important new guidance for all homeowners preparing for major wind storms such as Hurricane Irma: close all interior doors, in addition to all windows and exterior doors.

High winds, such as those currently expected from Hurricane Irma, place homes under intense pressure. Wind entering the home through an open or broken window, can create strong upward pressure on the roof. Closing interior doors helps compartmentalize the pressure inside the home into smaller areas reducing the overall force on the roof structure, which gives the roof a better chance of staying intact.

“The roof is your first line of defense against anything Mother Nature inflicts on a home, and during a bad storm your roof endures fierce pressure from wind, rain, and flying debris that may be outside,” said Julie Rochman, IBHS president and CEO. “But the roof also must withstand internal pressure if winds get inside. The pressure in your home can build like air in a balloon, eventually causing the roof to fail and blow apart, which – particularly in a hurricane – allows water to come pouring in.”

As the eastern United States and Caribbean islands prepare for Hurricane Irma, IBHS urges homeowners to follow all evacuation orders and be sure to shut the doors on Irma to increase its ability to withstand the storm.

IBHS offers additional hurricane preparedness tips here. The Institute will provide further data behind our summer wind testing findings in October.”

Meanwhile, there are plenty of signs that might be totally permissible, or “kosher.”

Examples (from real banners):

The Yellow Pages
Assisted Living Home
Insurance Company
Politician (election campaign)

So I guess it also depends on how much control you have over saying which ads you’ll fly, and if your management allows you to refuse a job without consequence.

Based on online job descriptions, the Banner Tow Pilot jobs can involve Day or Night signs. I think for a frum Jew, one may be able to negotiate the hours and ensure that the task does not interfere with Shabbos, davening, or family obligations.

It’s not like a commercial pilot where the pilot is confined to a space with another pilot, which may be an issue of yichus, or around untznius women.

If the pilot is flying over a crowd at the beach, that’s also a shaila, because I don’t know if the pilot is close enough to actually see individual people in their likeness. Plus the pilot might be focusing more on the path to fly in the sky, rather than looking down.

The job title is Banner Tow Pilot, who works in Aerial Advertising.

Technically, maybe even Jews working in marketing and advertising may come across such issues.

But obviously this is personal and in this case, it is taken to a higher level (har har har for the pun 😄 and yes by laughing at it myself, I’ve just maybe made it cheesy… so thanks for sticking with me here).