When we worked with an architect on our plans, we had no regard for hurricanes - I mean, they never came to SoWal. In retrospect, I would have not been so focused on lots of windows and instead have been totally focused on hurricane-proofing my home. I like the two new homes just west of the bed and breakfast on 30-A in Seagrove because their decorative shutters are also hurricane shutters. The way our windows are configured there's no way we could retrofit shutters to the design. So we're stuck with either boarding up or those ugly rolldown metal shutters.