Stronger Hurricanes Challenge Housing Recovery Plans
After a record-breaking hurricane season, city planners in Florida focus on best practices to rescue affordable housing, while architects adopt new housing designs for the long-term needs of a changing coastline.
Carl Smith, Senior Staff Writer
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January 6, 2021
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The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke the record for the number of storms big enough to be given a name, exhausting the 2020 name list from the National Hurricane Center and requiring nine letters of the Greek alphabet.
Six of the hurricanes in the 2020 season were Category 3 or greater; both a Category 4 and a Category 5 hurricane made landfall in Nicaragua within less than two weeks. Prior to this, only five storms of this magnitude had made landfall in the region since 1941.