Every house in the community was built with reinforced roofs and impact-resistant windows to withstand hurricane winds up to 150 mph or a Category 4 storm. And the towns power lines were installed ...

Not everyone considers the risk of purchasing a coastal property, which could easily be destroyed in the event of a hurricane ... to rise and the house to blow apart from the inside.

In the war zone that Mexico Beach now resembles, one beachfront structure stands out as a monument to hurricane preparedness.