Hurricane-Resistant Building Code Helped Protect Alabama from Sally’s Winds

Share this on WhatsApp When Hurricane Sally blew through coastal Alabama last month, the owners of about 16,000 homes there had a reason to breathe a little easier. Their roofs were probably going to be OK. Alabama’s two Gulf Coast counties—Mobile and Baldwin—are the nation’s leading adopters of a nationally recognized building standard meant to … Continue reading Hurricane-Resistant Building Code Helped Protect Alabama from Sally’s Winds