I was trying to remember back to when The Cliffs was under construction and perhaps my remembrance is wrong but was it done with poured concrete all the way up or with more traditional construction/framing methods? I’m fairly certain our building was poured concrete all the way up and it seems those are the buildings, among the more recent construction, that seem to have sustained the lesser damage. Perhaps that’s something that should be taken into consideration moving forward as the Island rebuilds?

Then again, I’m always amazed that buildings such as the Courthouse and the Pasanggrahan, both seemingly basic wood construction, have managed to survive all these many years and many storms. There used to be an old rule of thumb that nothing should (could, would?) be built any taller than a palm tree. Perhaps there was more than one reason for that logic? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />