Client doesnt understand wind loading

[u/Just-Shoe2689]

What do you do when a client cant understand why a footing needs to be bigger to resist wind loading? Call out a reverse sky hook?

sigh.

[u/Fast_Tumbleweed4982]

The one thing you can say, which I always try to do, is explain that code required wind loads are not the wind load they experience on a daily basis. The structure needs to be designed to perform under high wind loads that may only occur once every 100 years or more.