From: "Mark" 


"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> In article , "Mark"
 wrote:
> >Actually that will be a negative, lots of building materials will be
> >diverted to FL and hurt construction in the rest of the country, which
> >of course will be Bush's fault. Then, if, per chance, numbers go up in
> >spite of the storm, we can expect typical statements like "it's nothing
> >Bush did, it's all because of Charley." 
>
> Why the h*ll don't you build for the expected weather conditions? I'm
> surprised the insurance companies don't throw a hissy fit. For example,
> outside my door right now the wind is gusting to 180 km/hr (110 mph).
> It's been doing so for the last 12 hours and is forecast to continue for
> another 12. There's been only minor damage so far and it's business as
usual
> although with some disruption to commuter trains, airport and interisland
> ferries. The point is that this is normal, expected weather for this time
of
> year and our building codes reflect this.

AFAIK, they've been continually upgrading their codes and am sure the
rebuilds when disaster hits are required to be up to snuff on those new
codes. But, the bottom-line is a trailer park is history in a big storm, no
way to fully prevent it. I would add though, that it would seem prudent to
replace the trailers lost (tons of them this time) with permanent
structures - it's not like anyone ever actually moves a trailer.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but it seems pouring slabs and building concrete block
replacement structures in the same footprints as the demolished trailers
would not be any more expensive short-term, and certainly not long-term.

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