Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926" video.

  1. The place where we have vacationed for 30 years was scoured completely down to rock on St. John in the USVI...they had just renovated the villas on the resort the year before. Not a stick of wood was left where we used to stay, but the old historic sugar mill with its 3 ft. thick walls of solid rock is still there. That's how we plan to build, stone and interiors that can take water...I still love it there, you just can't expect not to get a direct hit eventually. I looked up storm records for the area and every 70 years there is a huge storm that takes out everything...
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  2. There was a cover story in Architectural Digest years ago featuring a house on St. John that was built around an old sugar mill. A couple of years later a hurricane took out the house and yard, but the sugar mill was fine. So they literally rebuilt around it using stone and cement and teak...the magazine featured the house again and it was perfect. I cannot even begin to imagine what it cost....
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