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Originally Posted by FoPAA
I sent my aunt down in the Jupiter area a photo of our dog looking out our lanai windows at the rain, and her immediate response was "You didn't put your shutters up!" I remember this was a REQUIREMENT where my parents lived in Jupiter, and snowbirds had to pay for a service to put them up when they were out of town. I was just wondering if anyone knows why we aren't required to install and then put up hurricane shutters??
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To my knowledge, there has never been a truly threatening hurricane in this area. While the winds may be strong enough to blow over a tree here or there, I don't believe homes in TV have been damaged.
Even when I lived in Palm Beach and Broward counties, there was no "requirement" to have shutters and those areas are certainly more prone to actual hurricane damage than in Jupiter.
Frank D'Angelo is correct is saying there are many people who sell faulty shutters. Even if TV said no shutters and I felt I needed them, I would still have them, but they are ugly unless you had the Lexan clear ones. By the time they told you to take them down, the storm would be over and you already would have them off.
Shutters are a pain in the butt and you have to store them. I ended up installing Miami-Dade approved hurricane impact windows and that is the only way I would ever go again. They are expensive but worth every penny.
Of course if your roof blows off . . .
