This is Timely

Earlier this summer, National Public Radio featured a story on a Florida community that was devastate by Hurricane Michael last year. Well worth some time to read.  The upshot: Simple techniques that are implemented uniformly and consistently in construction can reduce damage and save lives:

 "A decade after Hurricane Andrew, Florida adopted a statewide construction code that established minimum wind speeds buildings would have to withstand. But until 2008, much of the panhandle, including Panama City was granted an exception to the code. [Leslie] Chapman-Henderson [Federal Alliance for Safe Homes] says that exception proved costly. 'If we had not had that in place for seven years,' she says, 'the homes that just hit by Michael last year would have been so much stronger. But they weren't because of short-sighted policy.'"