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Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’
NY Times ^ | 10-14-2018 | Patricia Mazzei

Posted on 10/15/2018 5:23:32 PM PDT by NRx

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1 posted on 10/15/2018 5:23:32 PM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

Looks like it shielded the house behind it too.


2 posted on 10/15/2018 5:27:08 PM PDT by Boomer (Better Dead Than Dem)
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To: NRx

Good job, Doc!


3 posted on 10/15/2018 5:27:23 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: NRx

Mexico Beach just found the guy to write their new building codes.

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4 posted on 10/15/2018 5:28:13 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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“I believe the planet’s getting warmer and the storms are getting stronger,” said Mr. King, 68, an attorney. “We didn’t used to have storms like this. So people who live on the coast have to be ready for it.”

They had to throw that in there...
5 posted on 10/15/2018 5:31:12 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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It may have cost a pretty penny but they proved it worked. I hate government regulations but if people were made to build more than shacks, the rest of use wouldn’t be out $$$$$$ rebuilding and rebuilding and rebuilding everytime a hurricane comes through the Atlantic.


6 posted on 10/15/2018 5:32:29 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: NRx

Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

Matthew 7:24,25


7 posted on 10/15/2018 5:32:42 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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he forgot to ad that “we didnt build homes before Andrew like we do now”


8 posted on 10/15/2018 5:33:18 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: NRx

WOW! Good for him!


9 posted on 10/15/2018 5:33:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: ConjunctionJunction

He never heard of Camille?


10 posted on 10/15/2018 5:34:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Infuriating and 100% a LIE!

Joe Bastardi went through all of the Hurricanes in recent History (from 1930 or so, forward) and SIX of them were equal to or worse than Michael.

I hate liars.


11 posted on 10/15/2018 5:36:07 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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Yeah, well, everyone thought the third little piggy was crazy to build his house out of brick, too! Who’s crazy now, huh?


12 posted on 10/15/2018 5:36:50 PM PDT by fr_freak
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Yeah, tell that to Galveston, Texas. People act like just because it did not happen to them it never happened at all. There have been far worse hurricane disasters as far back as there are records. Heck, I am pretty sure Columbus encountered a big one over 500 years ago.


13 posted on 10/15/2018 5:37:24 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: BenLurkin

Nope. He is an idiot.


14 posted on 10/15/2018 5:39:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: NRx

‘merica...


15 posted on 10/15/2018 5:39:32 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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there used to building codes???
16 posted on 10/15/2018 5:42:03 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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I’d say this is the only home that isn’t a total loss.

I know someone who had a home in the center of Andrew. From the front it looked like nothing was wrong. Went inside and the walls were stripped clean of their drywall. Something punched a hole in the back wall and all the wind and rain got inside. The insurance company declared it a total loss.


17 posted on 10/15/2018 5:44:18 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: NRx

Force Field ?


18 posted on 10/15/2018 5:45:08 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Nope. He is an idiot.

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The real problem is the corrupt crooks at the NYTimes who quote him as if he’s an absolute authority.


19 posted on 10/15/2018 5:45:49 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: butlerweave

It just goes to show how a well built home can withstand a storm. Even mobile homes in hurricane areas have to be built to the new code.

Building better homes is a superior strategy than forking over trillions of dollars to politicians who will do nothing but steal all of it as part of their Global Warming scam.


20 posted on 10/15/2018 5:48:36 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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