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Yes. I don't live on the coast but I built it wind and rain proof. The best thing is it has a 4 in standing seam interlocking steel roof. You can sky hook the house and I had a tornado 200 yards away with no damage.
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No, I live in the mountains of Pennsylvania, it's not an issue for us, thankfully
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I don't know. But I live inland, in Canada and we only get remnants of hurricanes thank goodness. My house is definitely winter-proof!
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I do know that similar homes like ours, built from logs and lagged together from the same company we got it from were some of the rare survivors during Hurricane Katrina. So I feel pretty safe in it. It's rare to get a hurricane or tornado up here but we do get very bad winds and snow storms. Trees may crash on us, but the house would probably be okay, except for the porches.
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I don't think it is possible for a structure to be hurricane PROOF, but mine is certainly resistant up to a Cat 5. All homes built in Florida are required to be, I *think*.
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No... but since I don't live on the coast, that isn't a problem...
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Most forms of residential construction are not "hurricane proof". The only type with which I am familiar that would be "hurricane resistant" are concrete dome homes. http://static.monolithic.com/dometour/2008/index.html I recall once seeing a photo of wide devastation where everything had been flattened for miles in every direction ... everything, that is, but one solitary dome home. No form of construction will survive a 20-foot storm surge without a bit of a "moisture problem", however. ;-)
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Not really. I live in northern delaware
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