by reklicomToday’s California hurricane building codes do provide buyers of all new homes more protection from hurricanes than many homes built before the building code reforms of the early 1990’s. However, these new codes do not provide as much protection as some consumers have been led to believe. Only a few California counties have adopted the strict standards that are currently in place in Dade county (areas of which were devastated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992). In fact, the current building
