[Fai Mao]

Florida needs a different set of building codes.

We have concrete walls and roofs here. It makes the house more expensive too begin with but lowers maintenance and makes them basically typhoon/hurricane proof.

I only worry about the mango tree and plants in a typhoon, and I’ve sat through one with 155 mph winds

[Paradox]

We have concrete walls and roofs here. It makes the house more expensive too begin with but lowers maintenance and makes them basically typhoon/hurricane proof.

We have some of the strongest codes in the country. Unfortunately, the older homes were not built to those standards.

[Fiji Hill]

I only worry about the mango tree and plants in a typhoon, and I’ve sat through one with 155 mph winds

Guam has had some bad typhoons.

[American in Israel]

Where is here?

[CharlesWayneCT]

My opinion — better buildings come AFTER a storm like this, since you have to rebuild anyway; the Panhandle has not apparently been hit for some time.

Looking at the pictures of some of the buildings that got destroyed (before/after), I couldn’t believe they even EXISTED along a beach, they were clearly going to be blown apart by even 100mph winds, and would be swept away by any big storm surge.

So now, they have to rebuild an entire beach town, and I suspect it will look like most of the other florida beach towns, concrete and steel and high-strength windows and basements with no critical equipment.

Bad, especially for people who didn’t have insurance, but better in the long run.