Gracie, When the tornadoes hit Mallory, the concrete block homes held up much better than the wooden homes. Tornadic activity seems to be the worst part of the hurricane season in central Florida. I guess there were always this many tornadoes in the US, but it sure seems they are more prevalent now. It could be that our news sources have just become much more numerous. Anyway, here's hoping we have a calm season here in
TV and in the rest of Florida. I hope, I hope, I hope!
PS- I'm not knocking stick homes...just stating the way it was.
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Originally Posted by graciegirl
The Daily Sun reported a Hurricane expo recently held in TV. We are not there right now and wonder what if anything we all can do to make our homes safer as the Hurricane season begins in a few days.
We really wanted to buy a stucco and block house, having taken to heart the story of "The Three Little Pigs", however the house in the location we fell in love with wasn't stucco.
We had visited friends who live in Sarasota and they have all kinds of Hurricane equipment to cover their windows and sliding doors.
Never having seen Hurricane damage close up, I imagine that the damage is not only caused by the extreme whirling winds but by the debris thrown about by them too.
I know we are inland at TV.
This is a question for all of you. How will you protect your property from this threat?
I am not awfully worried about this, should I be? Are you?
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