Round-shaped Home Survives Category 5 Hurricane

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Hurricane Michael,Florida,Mexico Beach

In storm-vulnerable places, some developers are building homes designed to be more resilient to extreme weather escalated by climate change.

About five years ago, Hurricane Michael hit the Florida panhandle with a fury —160 mph winds, a storm surge of 14 feet and nearly a foot of rain.

"I'm aware that the earth is changing, folks, you know, and we need to adapt to that. And I think that environmentally, architects are going to have to start thinking out of the box. Definitely outside of the box," said Paulson. Deltec says of the 1,400 homes it has built over the last three decades, only one suffered structural damage from hurricane-level winds

 

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