Hurricane Michael - where did you come from?!

[gouf78]

Have to say though, do you still want a house that is surrounded by devastation? It’ll be years before anything close to a semblance of order is restored. After Andrew the people who fared the worst were the people who still had homes–everybody else took insurance money and cleared out of the wreckage.

[HImom]

My friend had the only home in her street that wasn’t burned down by fire in recent fire in their neighborhood. She hosted several gatherings for the entire street at her home, as she felt bad at the hardships they faced. She had new, fire resistant metal roof on her home. No one else did.

[greenwitch]

Another article about houses built to withstand the storm - by Habitat for Humanity:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/panhandle-houses-intact-after-michael-were-often-saved-by-low-cost-reinforcements/2018/10/17/d3ca97c0-d152-11e8-b2d2-f397227b43f0_story.html?utm_term=.60dafef6a181

In many cases, they were saved by additional strategically placed nails, some small metal connectors and window shutters that created a sealed package — low-cost reinforcements that determined whose home survived and whose was destroyed by the power of Hurricane Michael.

There are the five Habitat for Humanity houses in Panama City, a waterfront vacation home in Mexico Beach, a house built by a homeowner and a few of his church friends — modest structures that lost shingles and suffered water damage but stand largely untouched overlooking the wreckage of buildings that were shredded and ripped from their foundations.

“We have evidence that we can construct affordable housing that is resilient,” said Leslie Chapman-Henderson, president of the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting property from disasters.

Harding’s home was built to what is known as “Fortified Gold” by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), a nonprofit, independent research organization that runs a program called Fortified a set of voluntary building standards “that go beyond code to help harden homes against Mother Nature.”

They work closely with roofers, builders and nonprofits groups to erect homes with wind protections that strengthen the roof, with roof-to-wall attachments and stronger windows and doors.

An interesting point in the article is that another nearby home did well, and it is 100 years old. We just had better lumber back then because we used slower growing trees for it.

[bookworm]

ya, needrobuild ihn expectation of hurricane

[Nrdsb4]

@bookworm, looks like you could use some coffee!