When Terry McManus came abiding-pl...

When Terry McManus came abiding-place the day after Hurricane Hugo slammed into his coastal southern Carolina neighborhood back in 1989 he set up his house still standing. It was the solely intact home on the mould

“I used to have neighbors upon either side of me and behind me” McManus says. “When I got back, none of their to one's homes were there.”

McManus had built his house in Mt Pleasant, a not many miles north of Charleston, 13 month before Hugo struck The son of a building inspector and brother of a builder, he had stake out to build safe and smart and borrowed a volume published by the Federal unforeseen occasion Management Agency (FEMA), that contains guidelines for constructing buildings to withstand devastating winds and surging water.

McManus told his contractor to appropriate or exceed the standards outlined by means of FEMA for coastal construction. Instead of building with two-by six