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Originally Posted by Y
I saw one of these houses in Florida it was
supposed to be "hurricane proof" designed home
which already met their building codes/standards
but it still got destroyed from hurricane anyway....
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Was it an "egg-shaped" dome house? Those are supposed to be the strongest resistant to the wind. They are very weird looking but very strong. Of course, no house is totally hurricane "proof" but they can be hurricane "resistant".
All of our new coastal houses in SC are required to be built on raised pilings "stilts" to protect from flooding. All new roofs must have hurricane tie-downs. We even put them in our shed roof.
Even with all precautions, I know that a strong wind can blow one of our 60-80-ft. trees on our roof and that will be that.