"Vaughn" wrote in message
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Wood is an amazing building material. A properly designed wooden
structure
will stand up to a hurricane just as well as a properly designed concrete
structure.

I'm not talking about cinder blocks. Reinforced concrete is by FAR the
strongest building material generally available and in the shape of a dome
it's much stronger still. Given the same forces a stick home will be a pile
of splinters while the dome is unscathed. The numbers have been done; it's
not a mystery. http://www.monolithic.com/plan_desig...ive/index.html

For proof, take a trip to Key West and check out some of those old
homes. The biggest advantage of concrete homes in Florida has nothing to
do
with hurricanes; termites don't eat concrete.


It has everything to do with hurricanes. And fire. And floods. And rot.