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Fred Bloggs
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Among other things he has pledged a kind of federal gap insurance coverage for people with inadequate homeowner\'s insurance coverage. WTH!
Damage estimates coming out of Florida state government total $77B.
These sleazy operations ALWAYS use funding from a federal slush fund to replace undamaged infrastructure that is just plain worn out or antiquated in some way.
Too damned dumb to understand the cash cow here is themselves- the federal government doesn\'t just pull cash out of the ether, it uses what\'s called tax revenue.
Florida has invested in resilience. Hurricane Ian is a sobering test
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0929/Florida-has-invested-in-resilience.-Hurricane-Ian-is-a-sobering-test
Florida has done a pretty good job with adopting and enforcing a decent building code. The news sources pan away from the undamaged more updated structures- nothing to see here- they\'re damned right there\'s nothing to see, everything is completely intact! I notice a lot of housing uses the hip roof design- which is what you want for resistance against strong winds regardless of their direction.
And the additional cost to use improved engineering construction is nearly insignificant. But the NAHB fights any and all code proposals that add to the selling cost of the house regardless of the benefits, and they have representatives on the big code councils.
65%
Percentage of counties, cities and towns across the U.S. today still have not adopted modern building codes
as of November 2020
Building Codes Save: A Nationwide Study of Loss Prevention
https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/risk-management/building-science/building-codes-save-study
Damage estimates coming out of Florida state government total $77B.
These sleazy operations ALWAYS use funding from a federal slush fund to replace undamaged infrastructure that is just plain worn out or antiquated in some way.
Too damned dumb to understand the cash cow here is themselves- the federal government doesn\'t just pull cash out of the ether, it uses what\'s called tax revenue.
Florida has invested in resilience. Hurricane Ian is a sobering test
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2022/0929/Florida-has-invested-in-resilience.-Hurricane-Ian-is-a-sobering-test
Florida has done a pretty good job with adopting and enforcing a decent building code. The news sources pan away from the undamaged more updated structures- nothing to see here- they\'re damned right there\'s nothing to see, everything is completely intact! I notice a lot of housing uses the hip roof design- which is what you want for resistance against strong winds regardless of their direction.
And the additional cost to use improved engineering construction is nearly insignificant. But the NAHB fights any and all code proposals that add to the selling cost of the house regardless of the benefits, and they have representatives on the big code councils.
65%
Percentage of counties, cities and towns across the U.S. today still have not adopted modern building codes
as of November 2020
Building Codes Save: A Nationwide Study of Loss Prevention
https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/risk-management/building-science/building-codes-save-study