Your posts on this thread are some of the pettiest, most childish I’ve seen. You give FR a bad name.
I'm in real estate (part time) here in North Texas, hence my name -- re: real estate and nortex: North Texas.
I've witnessed the quality of construction worsen over the decades as American workers have been displaced by the illegals. It's not merely an opinion but an observation based on fact. Take a close look in out-of-the-way places (such as attics) and it's clear that their workmanship is subpar and, hence, more prone to wind damage.
I was born in 1943 and can remember when homes were well built in the 50's, 60's and early 70's. The influx of illegals from across the border has been unquestionably a bad thing. Today's destruction added to the evidence of the price we pay for open borders.
His posts are fine, and a credit to FR. Your post was not only petty and childish, but hateful and vindictive with absolutely nothing to back it up. You should be banned from FR for lies and attempting to defame an innocent person. You give the entire internet posting community, across the entire world, a bad name. Because of people like you, collectivists are able to shove through laws to restrict internet 1st Amendment rights. What a terrible thing you've done - what is wrong with you?
My house was built in 1970 and I've identified three or four shortcuts used in construction, a couple of which I've been required to rectify at a cost of something around $35,000, not allowing for other storm and water damage. Including piering (slab-on-grade stinks, but all the builders do it incessantly, even in Houston where sensitive clay soils are a problem), which required just about every load-bearing beam to be supported and leveled, after 20 years of summer droughts and subsoil dewatering by 50-foot water oaks (which each pull about 60 gallons of water a day).
At least the builders didn't yet have aluminum-cored wiring available when my place was built.
There's plenty to criticize in homebuilding methods, and the weaknesses tend to show up in storms and floods.