This article pretty much proves my point - buildings in hurricane prone areas should be built to better standards. As it turns out just building to current codes would have been a great start. I had previously heard stories that houses built by Habitat for Humanity do much better when hit by tornadoes than others. The reason was their amateur builders used far more nails that code requires, just to be on the safe side, whereas professional builders will cut costs and use at least the bare minimum of nails, if not less.

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