Here's How That One Mexico Beach House Survived Hurricane Michael
A single home remarkably left standing on Florida's Mexico Beach after
Hurricane Michael might very well become a prototype for how to build on
the coast in the decades to come.
An image of one home still standing amid unthinkable devastation shows
the hard work and forward thinking of Dr. Lebron Lackey, a radiologist
from Cleveland, Tennessee, and his uncle, Russell King, an attorney from
Chattanooga. Their Sand Palace of Mexico Beach, finished in April, was
designed to survive a monster hurricane, and the reinforced concrete
structure was meant to be the last home standing in the event of the
unthinkable.
Despite the work they did to fortify the Sand Palace – in addition to
the one-foot-thick concrete walls, tall 40-foot pilings were driven deep
into the ground and steel cables held the roof in place – Lackey, who
was at his primary home in Tennessee during landfall, watched the
footage from a security camera with great concern.
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