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Evacuation orders are given almost a week ahead of hurricanes now. Updated building codes after Andrew have made wind almost a non-issue for houses built in the
by matwood 7y ago
Evacuation orders are given almost a week ahead of hurricanes now. Updated building codes after Andrew have made wind almost a non-issue for houses built in the last 20 years. Expanded flood zones have forced more houses to be built above the 100 year flood line. Local utility lines have mostly been moved underground to avoid wind and falling trees. The last time we received hurricane force winds we didn’t even lose cable.
Clearly we have learned nothing from hurricanes.
- primitivesuave 7y agoThank you for the information, my opinions were largely formed by contemporary news articles - had I been more informed I would not be so negative about hurricane response.
- matwood 7y agoOne of the big building code changes was actually very simple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_(engineering)#Hurricane_tie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_(engineering)#Hurricane_... But ties changed the entire survivability of a building in high winds.