This hurricane-proof home can withstand powerful storms

Spread The Viralist



North Carolina-based prefab home builder Deltec has designed a home that’s built to withstand hurricanes. In the season finale of Home of the Future, The Verge and Curbed show you how one Deltec home fared against Hurricane Harvey this past summer.
Subscribe: https://goo.gl/G5RXGs

Check out our full video catalog: https://goo.gl/lfcGfq
Visit our playlists: https://goo.gl/94XbKx
Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc
Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61
Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX
Read More: http://www.theverge.com

source

Recommended For You

About the Author: The Verge

44 Comments

  1. No reason wooden can't be strong use hurricane ties and metal brackets! It saved my house and had minimal damage through an ef3 tornado in Ontario. Metal siding is the way to go as well

  2. Why u guys don't Spend on strong concrete homes with concrete ceiling….rather than spending whol life just to make wodden home..that can get burner easily ..damaged easily and destroyed easily

  3. Hurricane or tornadoe proof house is just simply all made of concrete no hallow blocks, design like a bunker or just simply cube building just all concrete with strong round bars skeleton Like that! Or I-beam steel, common sense!!! Wht the FCK is happening to this American people they can't learn from their mistakes, how many decades past, still building their houses from woods or Lego blocks and galvanized roofing? Wtf?😄

  4. When i was a little kid, i asked my mom, why do people who live in hurricane or tornado areas, keep rebuilding the same bad home designs over and over, when u could just design one to withstand it?
    She was like, idk son.

  5. Ahahahhahahah saw this place on HGTV. I think this is the place, they were looking for a cheap beach house and now I know why XD. Oh nooo. I want to retire to oklohoma so o well.

  6. You sort of casually mentioned Forest Fires… but none of your material that I have seen, thus far, tells about Fire Protection…
    I am strongly interested in building a "Mountain Cabin" retirement home — probably in the Smoky Mountains area. Wild Fires are 'rare' in the area… BUT… a few years back, they had a Devastating Fire over many acres…and Many homes were badly damaged or destroyed…

  7. Hurricanes have been around longer than people. California goes up in flames because they don’t thin out the forest or cut down dead trees. It’s called forest management, it has not to do with the climate, bunch of stupid people out there.

  8. Where is your flood plan? Sure, you get high winds but without a flood plan you have not protected the building from hurricanes. You have protected it from half a hurricane.

  9. human beings are funny. all our anestors chose to live in round houses for a reason. then we chose to leave it cause we follow popular fads. but then nature comes but to teach us why we made round houses in the first place hahah

Comments are closed.