In good times people get soft and forget that you must prepare for the worst while hoping for the best. All over the world people and governments have failed to prepare for the worst. As I write these words the fiercest cyclone ever to strike a heavily populated part of Queensland Australia is battering buildings and has cut off power supplies to hundreds of thousands of homes. How well the state’s building regulations and construction techniques have been designed to cope with such a storm remains to be seen. I hope that the Queenslanders have prepared for the worst. (more…)
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