Florida leads the world in hurricane resistant construction and Miami Dade is the leader here. The problem with (hurricane) Andrew was not that the code was weak. It was that the inspections were weak to non existent out in the unincorporated county. There was a big shakeup in Dade county, merging it with Miami but the biggest difference was a change in the whole building code system in Florida. We now have a uniform building code state wide and state licensed building code officials. They also beef up the code just about every cycle. One thing you don't see here is houses knocked off the foundation and floating away. You also do not see the roof coming off. You might lose the shingles but the structure will still be there.
Our latest wind code map has most of the southern peninsula with a 140MPH or above rating and it is 180 down in the keys.

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Greg Fretwell