After looking at what happened in Mexico Beach, and seeing so many homes simply disappear- I have to wonder about what led to so much damage.

Are the building codes less stringent there than they are in Brevard?

Could it be the that low lying area and all the surge helped destroy the homes?

Then I saw this new article in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10...xico-beach-house.html


"After Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 beast, ravaged Miami-Dade County in 1992, new construction in the southern portion of the state was required to withstand 175-mile-an-hour winds. In the coastal Panhandle counties affected by Michael, the requirement is lower, for 120 to 150 miles an hour, and the rules for certain kinds of reinforcement have applied to houses built more than a mile from shore only since 2007. Many of the residences and businesses rubbed out by Michael in Mexico Beach were far older; "



I can't remember for sure- are we here in Brevard subject to those Miami post-Andrew building codes?

My house was built in 2002- I'm not sure the wind rating, but I think I remember "Miami Dade building code"

Just hate to see that level of damage... but it did seem like those homes came apart rather easily..