Windows at the Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston can withstand a 9-pound, 8-foot-long piece of 2×4 lumber flying at 54 miles per hour.
Small gravel picked up by last May’s 100-mph derecho shattered hundreds of windows in downtown Houston skyscrapers. The skyscrapers were built under a different building code based on a different climate and by developers focused on keeping costs low.
Constructing a building or home capable of withstanding a natural disaster is not impossible; it’s a choice. The fundamental problem is who pays for resilience and who benefits…