Page 19 - Green Builder Magazine Jan-Feb 2018 Issue

A New Reality
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The Next
Big One
Faced with high probability of more Category IV and V
storms, builders have voluntary and code-mandated
ways to integrate the lessons of Katrina, Harvey,
Charley, Sandy, Irma and Maria.
BY MATT POWER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
After watching and reading this fall’s spectacularly
inept news coverage of Hurricane Irma, you might
come away with the perception that natural disasters
are “sad” and infrequent events, and there’s nothing
any of us can [nor have any reason] to: a) mitigate
them, or b) prepare for future extreme weather.
Neither perception is accurate. Read on.
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