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The Storm Stopper product is nothing more then low cost, off the shelf, hardware items packaged together and sold as a "plywood alternative".

It's nothing more than a low cost sheet of 3/8" corrugated plastic held in place with Velcro like 3M Dual Lock reclosable fasteners.  They are betting no one will notice it's nothing more than that.

The low cost plastic sheet may not puncture when struck by a wind driven 2 x 4 but it will bend with enough force to break a window however the biggest problem is the 3M Dual Lock reclosable fasteners.  They will rip apart long before the storm reaches hurricane strength.

We predict there will be a product liability lawsuit brought against this company after the next hurricane when people find out they were mislead about the performance of the Storm Stopper product.  If you are a Storm Stopper distributor or retailer you should make sure the manufacturer is carrying product liability insurance.  We have a strong feeling they do not which will leave you venerable for litigation in the future.

How do we know all this?

The creators of this Storm Stoppers scam came to us posed as college students who had invented a weather prediction device and asked us to give them the domain name StormStoppers.com for free.  They claimed to be poor starving college students and begged us to help them by giving them the domain name for free.  We actually agreed to let them use the domain name free of charge, after all we are very compassionate people and suckers for a good story and helping the poor.  The problem was they wanted to own the domain and all we wanted to do is let then use the domain for free.  After days of almost constant badgering by them we offered to sell them the domain for $1.00 in return for a 1% stock ownership in a business that didn't even exist as far as we knew.  It was a purely charitable offer because after all 1% ownership in an upstart is worth nothing unless the company goes public some time in the future and it is well known that 9 out of 10 businesses fail. We even offered to help them market their invention for free.  We offered to host their website for free.  We offered to provide them with unlimited email accounts for free.  One of our board members was even going to spend his own money on a pay-per-click keyword marketing plan through Google.  We were really suckered into this scam.  We really thought we were helping some college students in need.  They wanted us to give them the domain for free and would not accept anything else so the conversation ended there, or so we thought.

A year later we noticed this website, StormStoppers.com,  was getting a lot more hits then usual.  The hits had increased by more than 100 per day and were growing more and more faster and faster everyday.  We did a little research and found a Florida based business named Cleaver Covers, Inc. using our Storm Stoppers name without our permission.  We contacted them not knowing anything about the business.  At the time we contacted them we did not know the kind of people they were or that they were the same ones that attempted to swindle us out of the domain a year earlier.  Being a very companionate group of people we though we would do this company a favor and let them know about the business they were missing out on.  We really didn't care that they were using the name.  It really was no big deal.  We really don't need to own all three versions of the domain name.  We can always use more money to fund our projects but we were really doing them a favor by contacting them in an attempt to help their business.  This is when we discovered what kind of people we were dealing with.  In our conversation with the owner of the business he let the cat out of the bag about the college student scam.  He went on to say that our organization was being harmed by the extra hits and that when hurricane season came it would get worst.  We tried to set him straight but he just got angered and talked over us.  We tried to let him know that the extra hits were a good thing for us.  The more hits we get the more people know about our cause.  We love the extra hits and can't wait until hurricane season comes to get even more hits and sell even more t-shirts and other stuff.  This just shows you how crazy, whacko these people are.  How stupid is it to actually believe you can convince someone that extra website traffic could be a bad thing?  It explicitly shows how unscrupulous these people are.  They lied, swindled and even suckered us in at first, then they tried to convince us we are being harmed by the increase in web traffic.  The conversation ended after a long, angry tirade that included threats of litigation against us.  It's really sad that extremetly compassionate people like us who are trying to do someone we don't even know a favor get victimized in return.