Florida is as unprepared for a major hurricane as prior to Andrew.

As most people recall, on August 24th, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed South Florida with a vengeance. Homes were badly wrecked, mobile homes were ripped to shreds, and over 25 billion in damage was done.

And yet the storm revealed some very shoddy construction practices. The extreme vast majority of roofs that failed were gable roofs, many of them with slopes as shallow as 15 degrees. Wind blowing over a roof with slopes that shallow will in fact create lift, like with an airplane wing. A lot of them also had Oriented Strand Board as the decking. There were 2 story homes of wood frame construction with such roofs.

Concrete block is clearly the best kind of construction to have in a hurricane zone. Especially when you put rebar through the holes in the concrete blocks and then fill the holes with cement. Also, you're supposed to have a hip roof. Roof slopes should be no shallower than 35 degrees, and there should preferrably be no overhangs except the gutters.

As of 2022 it appears, even south Miami-Dade county is just as unprepared for a hurricane as in 1991. Homes in Kendall, Homestead, Florida City, and in between still have shallow (about 15 degrees) sloped gable roofs with up to 3 foot overhangs. Roofs that are just waiting to lift off in the next hurricane. I am also even seeing a few mobile home parks in southern Miami-Dade county.