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Old 08-30-2023, 01:28 AM
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Originally Posted by coffeebean View Post
I lived in South Florida when Andrew hit. We were 60 miles from the eye of the storm. We had some palm fronds down in our neighborhood. It was after Andrew, I believe, that building codes were improved.
Yep, remember well. We lived in Deerfield then. We did have steel hurricane shutters, so we never had to board up with plywood... that is one big job, we've helped many family and friends.