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  • Ah, yes, good ole ignorant jingoism.

    You probably don’t know that code in Florida has required concrete reinforced cinder block 1st floor for residential houses since the 90’'s, because that’s what can withstand hurricanes and flooding. Typical block construction only requires concrete and rebar reinforcement at windows, doorways, etc, while this code requires it in every other opening, thereby tying every course together, from first to last. This prevents flood surges from weakening the structure, and also provides a physical barrier for objects flying at 100mph+.

    Code has also required hurricane straps on every rafter, since forever.

    There’s probably a lot more code I don’t know.

    But here you’d have them build houses out of stone which wouldn’t withstand flooding, unlike reinforced and anchored block, cause in your hubris you think you know something.












  • It bothers you because you have no understanding of how temp is measured/calculated by these different platforms.

    This isn’t new - in the 70’s the local news station would report local temp, and it would be wildly different from the thermometer on our property, because local conditions can vary that much.

    I can feel the difference in temp where I live by walking 30 feet. It can vary 20 degrees in that time because microclimate.

    Weather apps are notoriously “wrong” for me - at least 5 degrees F all the time, and sometimes 10.