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Were you surprised by that? >> at that point when i was seeing the video, all the construction decisions were fresh in my mind, the house was completed in april of this year. we built it for the big one but had no it would no idea it would come so soon. all of that was fresh in my mind. i was looking at the roof and watching the force of the wind and thinking about those tiedowns and all the structure of the roof and the wall and how much wind the wall must be taking at that moment. i wont say i...

I was amazed at things you did to make sure it could. can you tell me a couple things you did that are different in this house versus others? >> the pilings the house rests on our 40 feet long and go 20 feet below, at the top of those pilings steel brackets create union with the girders, made of the same reinforced concrete. those girders have vertical rebar and concrete walls are on that and the walls are mounted and united by steel and concrete 28 feet down in the ground, that goes all the way...

Here to see how they rode the storm last night. how are you? i understand you were here for the storm. can you let me know real quick? how was it? there was a lot of tree damage. >> i want to talk to you and show people your house if you walk with me. and shawn did creative things and duct taped his roof and i wonder if the camera man can pan over here. >> tie downs. the ratchet tie downs. the anchors into the five-foot stakes in the ground. they are not coming off. >> for shawn over here, that ...

Fatality count might have been higher. tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that ive had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. ...

A wooden trestle. the center section was totally destroyed. despite its design, the swing feature of the bridge was never used, and investigators discovered it wasnt connected properly. >> since they never did use it as a swing bridge, they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place. >> divers also examined the wood pilings that supported the bridge. >> we wanted to determine if the piles had undergone any kind of deterioration, such as damage fro...

Stopped on the bridge, or the fatality count might have been higher. tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that ive had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in ord...

Tragically, the train was running about a half hour late due to the stop to repair the air-conditioning. had the train been on time, it would have crossed the bridge before the "mauvilla" ran into it. >> i think this investigation just confirmed for me a couple of longstanding philosophies that ive had. one is that every accident is kind of a chain reaction. there is five or six links in the chain that all have to happen in order for an accident to happen. >> they never did put in the same amoun...

Despite its design, the swing feature of the bridge was never used, and investigators discovered it wasnt connected properly. >> since they never did use it as a swing bridge, they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place. >> divers also examined the wood pilings that supported the bridge. >> we wanted to determine if the piles had undergone any kind of deterioration such as damage from wood-destroying organisms like soft rot or brown rot decay....