[madison10]

An oil rig that broke loose during Hurricane Katrina is wedged under the Cochrane Bridge in Mobile, Alabama. The rig tore free of its moorings as the storm lashed the Alabama coast before surging downriver and smashing into the suspension bridge.

SCARY! So are the photos with piles of matchsticks AKA housing.

[dawn53]

Sometime, long after the clean-up, but before rebuilding, an analysis needs to be made about building codes and evaluate if certain types of buildings or building codes fared better than others.

I know that our county adopted the Miami/Dade code, supposedly one of the most stringent in the nation, but even with that, the Miami/Dade code has not been tested by a major hurricane (at least, not that I know of.)