InternetJeff The point is (from my Florida friends) to have a plan.
And have a hurricane resistant structure, which is not all that hard to achieve anymore and is more or less required under the updated Florida Building Codes.
Then came Irma, it washed a lot of beach front homes into the Gulf, some with their residents still inside who perished, as such the Code’s where updated once again.
As such if anyone who wants to rebuild their beachfront homes and is still foolish enough to live that close to the Gulf must have their home up on piers sunk down to the Coral Shelf below their property, they can use the lower floor as a garage or a utility room, but he living areas must be up above the storm surge level and built to withstand on the coastal areas 130 mph winds, I believe the inland requirements are now also the same at 130 mph.
I have a property I own adjacent to mine and the shed I installed there is rated for 150 mph.
I was required to have Hurricane anchors installed, but I got a variance because I was going to tie it down to concrete barriers commonly used on highway construction projects, they where used during the widening of 80 and I got them for free because the construction manager, who I know, realized it would cost his company less to deliver them to me rather then moving them somewhere to be stored, I have way more of them then I need, but I had to take all of them or nothing, so they are just sitting out there next to the shop until I find a use for them or someone else who can use them.
