With the terrible hurricane Sandy that devasted the East Coast of the US at the end of October,2012, everyone realizes that building codes need to be changed to allow for more resilient structures in hurricane prone areas of the country. The Miami-Dade Count Hurricane Code is the most robust of all county codes in the country and we need to see that the codes there need to be adopted in almost every other place in the country.
A nice perspective on this is written in the Fine Home building Spring/Summer 2012 Issue and can be read here