In south Florida I owned a house near a road and heard noise. I upgraded the windows to what I call “impact glass”. Supposedly glass strong enough to withstand hurricane force winds so one is not required to shutter (something we did in south Florida). Amazing. Zero noise. So quiet. I like quiet. The windows were three times the cost of regular windows. But I did not have a lot of windows and worth it to me to also not to have to shutter when a hurricane came through.
It seems odd to me that we do not have shutters here in central Florida and if Milton was not the 100 year storm they say and we see more, I’ll look into getting impacted glass for my current home in the villages. With Milton, even though I have double pane windows now, they shook and vibrated quite a bit on the exposed pond side during the storm. I know Romac does windows in The Villages, but I have not researched vendors. I’d probably look to have an Orlando based window company come over, as it likely would be less.
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