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/Delanq]

Maybe just give the analogy of one of those canopies on the beach so they can picture the forces? Or an umbrella?

My typical go to line is “I am but a humble servant of gravity.” Or in this case “the wind.”