Edited sentence: Again, the Florida Building Code and Miami Dade standards do not mitigate the loss of life caused by using their products.Google Hurricane Shutter Tragedies and you can see all these deaths.Miami-Dade County's jurisdiction does not exceed its boundaries and no building code or fire code forces homeowners to retrofit existing buildings with any hurricane mitigation measures.One regional effort is in Miami-Dade County in the State of Florida in the USA.So use them at your peril.The construction methods incorporated into the Florida Building Code are reported to have stood up fairly well to Hurricane Katrina.The county's Building Code Compliance Office, certifies hurricane mitigation building products, such as window shutters.The majority of houses now have not been built to the new code.There are also no requirements unfortunately for their to be a safe exit with approved products.They are a pain to install, taking hours, and block all the exits in case of emergency