1 hour 24 minutes; not rated Someone in "Shored Up," a thought-provoking documentary about the folly of shoreline construction in the Hurricane Sandy age, compares beach replenishment to the sentence of Sisyphus: pile up the sand, only to see it washed away; repeat endlessly.
Collins and Lowe (2001) argued that in many coastal states the amount of property exposed to hurricanes has increased at a rate that exceeds local population growth because no effective planning limits were enforced on construction in the hurricane flood hazard zones.
Prompted by reports of widespread shoddy construction in Miami after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the Legislature adopted a statewide building code in 2001 that replaced a patchwork of county and municipal codes.
The executive director of the Florida Manufactured Housing Association, Frank Williams, said mobile homes built after the federal government stiffened their construction rules in 1994 fared well in Hurricane Charley, even in Punta Gorda, the hardest-hit area.
Construction characteristics and performance of homes in Hurricane Andrew and Opal have been documented in two damage assessment surveys using statistical sampling techniques.
In this paper, probabilistic risk assessment methods are developed to assess performance and reliability of low-rise light-frame wood residential construction in the United States subjected to hurricane hazards.
This paper presents a probabilistic framework to assess the hurricane damage to residential constructions considering the non-stationarity and correlation in hurricane actions.
The back story: This course was under construction when Hurricane Iniki slammed through in '92.
"For a long time, I didn't know what was happening," said Mr. Cacho, who had come to New Orleans in late 2005 to work in the construction boom after Hurricane Katrina.
