Charlie: Ruth wants to know if you have an opinion on a product called Storm Stoppers. I don’t think it’s necessarily even that product, but the kind of thing. It’s a plywood alternative to prevent window damage during hurricanes and storms.
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Tom: There’s a lot of different products you can have. You can have roll-down shutters. You can have these new plastic things. I think that’s what she’s talking about. You got plywood, too. There’s a lot of different options. Whatever fits your lifestyle the best, what’s ever going to be easiest for you, because you want to get the plywood up, get the plastic sheets up, get the shutters down, and get out of town. You want to do it quick, and you don’t want to wait too long. I’m fine with anything that passes tests and meets the standards that wind storm people ask you to meet.
Charlie: Is a plastic sheet going to work as well as plywood, though?
Tom: If it meets the standards, and they have to meet standards. That’s 200-mile-an-hour object being thrown into it, it cannot penetrate.
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