'I’ve always wonder why hurricane prone southern coastal states doesn’t have better infrastructure to at least withhold cat3 winds. States like Florida , why they keep building houses out o wood?'

I never could figure that one out myself. We live a block and a half from the beach just a few miles north (Vero Beach) where both Frances and Jeanne came ashore last year and almost all of the houses in our neighborhood were built of concrete block except those right on the beach, which most are (were!) built of wood. We didn't lose one shingle during the 120 mph winds, several of the homes in the hood lost shingles and almost everybody lost their pool screen enclosures. Today our neighborhood *almost* looks as though nothing ever happened but take a 3 minute walk down to the beach and there's still pieces of sticks and plumbing poking out of the sand where a wooden house once stood.
I do hope they hurry up and rebuild those things, they make an awesome windbrake for the rest of us.

Rick
Our Room

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