Hurricane? Crom laughs at the four winds...

[Wormwood]

Well, St. Petersburg has pretty much shut down, and everyone is in full cockroach scurry.

That said, how are my fellow Floridians planning on greeting Charlie?

Myself, I'm going to be gloriously drunk for the next few days.

 

[Vocenoctum]

I'm in Ft Lauderdale, and have gotten tired of all the folks wondering if it'll hit...

ANy hurricane is serious, true, but COME ON!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Well, St. Petersburg has pretty much shut down, and everyone is in full cockroach scurry.

... ohhhh.

I have a friend in St Petersburg. But I hadn't heard anything about hurricanes in Russia.

Took me a moment

-Hyp.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Oh, crap. Here in South Carolina we are to get rain, lots of rain, some wind but my fellow workers are seeing as a possible "I can't make it into work" excuse! ARRRRRRRRRRR!

If I was in Florida, it would be different but Columbia SC!

 

[Sado]

I'm a police dispatcher in Pinellas Park. I am working thursday 11pm-11am and then again from 7pm-7am friday.

And I'll be trying to squeeze in some zzz's at city hall in between shifts. Cant go home, I'm in the flood evac area.

 

[BOZ]

hope everyone was allright after that long scary weekend...

 

[Turanil]

I got a look at all those photos of destroyed homes. Most of them seemed to belong to old persons (beyond 60) who have thus lost almost everything they owned, and are not in the good age to begin it anew... :\

I was just wondering: in a state which seems to be subject to hurricanes almost every year, how is it still allowed to build homes not designed to resist hurricanes? (Full concrete may not be that aesthetic, but it's solid.)

 

[Sado]

I got a look at all those photos of destroyed homes. Most of them seemed to belong to old persons (beyond 60) who have thus lost almost everything they owned, and are not in the good age to begin it anew... :\

I was just wondering: in a state which seems to be subject to hurricanes almost every year, how is it still allowed to build homes not designed to resist hurricanes? (Full concrete may not be that aesthetic, but it's solid.)

It's called freedom. You have the choice to spend your money on whatever kind of house you want. If you want a cheap house, fine, but you have to live with the consequences.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Freedom? HAH!

Its called a bustling Construction Buisness.

 

[derelictjay]

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I was just wondering: in a state which seems to be subject to hurricanes almost every year, how is it still allowed to build homes not designed to resist hurricanes? (Full concrete may not be that aesthetic, but it's solid.)

I would guess that Florida does have hurricane codes they have to build with. More likely however its a city to city thing, with each city having different ordinances for building homes. Thats the way we do it in Texas, and I live in Corpus Christi, where we've been dodging the bullet for the past 20+ years, as the hurricanes keep just missing us. (Corpus Christi is long overdue for the monster to smash into it again.)

But really there's no such thing as a home that can resist a hurricane, the best you can do is minimize the damage and hope you get lucky. As your concrete home you mentioned, well it does well against the wind, but is exspensive to construct, and if its on the coast and there's a huge tidal surge, well a building can't stand if its foundation is missing.