I used to live about 20 minutes drive away from SJU (my parents still do) and travelled through it frequently for college breaks. SJU is much like any other la

I used to live about 20 minutes drive away from SJU (my parents still do) and travelled through it frequently for college breaks. SJU is much like any other largish international airport in the U.S. Many of the houses and buildings there are sturdier than you'd think. My parents house is at the end of a row of six or so that share walls. So they buffer each other's flanks during a hurricane. Their windows don't have glass. Instead it's screens covered by storm shutters with iron bars over those. Also, the houses are constructed of thick reinforced concrete rather than the picturesque wood, siding, and shingles that you might be thinking of. It's actually rather bunker like. Hurricanes can hit several times per year and those houses are built to take the punishment. (Got word from my parents last night that the power was out and their street is filled with windblown debris that they and their neighbors will be cleaning up today, but otherwise they came through fine.)