I lived on and nearby LBI for over ten years. Proud homeowners in the area at some point will be the victims of underlying shoddy construction when a hurricane or even an above average storm swell goes through.
I saw the examples first hand when tipped off by a local builder. His work was top notch. Some of the rest ... not so much.
When I was little I read a story in Reader’s Digest about a family building their home in the South in order to withstand a hurricane. I think they used 3/4 plywood for the roof and used nails long enough to bend them over on the other side so they couldn’t be pulled out. They did have a hurricane and about the only bad thing was that their house floated off its foundation with them in it, but it wasn’t destroyed.
I was just looking through that paper about the hurricanes. It appears that the weakest storms coincided with the periods of greatest global warmth and the strongest storms, with the periods of greatest cooling. So the Medieval Climate Optimum showed a decrease. The LIA showed an increase followed by that big drop that continues to now. Farther back, the Roman Warming period had smaller numbers of weaker storms, as low as now, and before that, in the cooler period between the Minoan Warming and the Roman Warming, there was the greatest number of really large storms over the entire period in question.