Better Health Through Better Design
We're almost two weeks past Hurricane Ian. Most of us weren’t in its path and so it just becomes another disaster that happened to other people, but to those people most impacted it is an ongoing challenge: over a hundred people?dead, hundreds of thousands?still without power, tens of thousands?facing a housing crisis?due to destroyed/damaged homes, and?estimated?$67b in damages. It will take years of rebuilding to recover.
In the wake of a natural disaster like a hurricane — or a tornado, a flood, even a pandemic — it’s easy to shrug our shoulders and say, well, it’s Mother Nature, what can we do? There’s some truth to that, but the fact is there are choices — design choices — we can make to mitigate the impacts. A Florida community called?Babcock Ranch?helps illustrate that.