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Originally Posted by coffeebean
We lived in South Florida for twenty four years. Our front doors opened in. I'm finding out from this thread that doors opening in are not hurricane resistant.
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We looked at a few homes in Deluna that had functional hurricane shutters.
The last few years we have been shopping coastal homes in Florida. We found large number older homes with no hurricane improvements on exterior doors, windows, garage door.
Our insurance gave us a must have list, for windows, garage doors and outward entry doors for cat3-5.
Coastal new builds are 10-12’ concrete stilts, some with rotating walls for surge. Even on 12’ pylons all doors opened out. Most because of code, or insurance requirements