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The wind speed rating of our homes is actually a theoretical calculation which may or may not hold up in a real world scenario. The particular home I live in is approximately 10 years old and was built to then current standards which the builder must meet as a (theoretical) minimum. In the mean time the codes have been toughened every few years and also the wind speed calculation methodology has become incredibly complicated, but to be honest with you, I am not aware of any great change to the way the houses are built now vs then ( that is ten + years ago) as the houses were basically as I see it "good enough". Any of The Villages homes, CBS or Frame, should easily be able to take whatever winds Irma blows at as we all have homes built with the most important lessons learned from Hurricane Andrew and these were incorporated into the Florida building codes at least by the 2001 and 2004 FBC.

This specifically includes hurricane roof straps, better soffit design, better shingles, more nails, garage door reinforcement (the horizontal bars), stronger windows, amongst other things. We all should have these.

If you can remember the ground hog day tornado that had 165 + mph winds then yes, it crushed frame houses and took the roofs off of CBS homes. But these wind speeds will not be even remotely reached by this hurricane.

Now, if you want to worry about something worry about trees falling on your house. That is where the real problems will most likely be.