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May 28, 2015

Florida buildings more hurricane resistant

  • The improvement derives from Florida's statewide building code, implemented in 2002, a decade after Hurricane Andrew's 165-mph winds gutted parts of South Florida.
    • By MIKE SCHNEIDER, JENNIFER KAY and MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL
    Associated Press

    MIAMI — Since eight hurricanes whipped through Florida during back-to-back seasons a decade ago, causing $33 billion in insurance claims, the state's coastal communities have added an additional 1.5 million people and almost a half-million new houses, an Associated Press analysis shows.

    But experts say the risk of catastrophic destruction hasn't grown along with the new development because Florida builders are doing a better job of making structures hurricane-resistant.


     
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