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Months later, as the community started their recovery process, the Red Cross, Work Projects Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (now FEMA) and the Veteran’s Administration, joined forces to construct specially-designed hurricane-proof homes. The homes, constructed with iron bars, featured 18-inch thick walls, concrete roofs, and were twelve feet above ground with built-in cisterns designed to hold a year's worth of water.
http://www.redcross.org/news/article/The-Labor-Day-Hurricane-of-1935-
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