Here in the Uk we don’t really get much in the way of hurricanes. We get the tail end of some from the USA, but greatly diminshed, for the most part. That said, I live on the side of a hill - Stonebreaks Hill in Oldham, and my wife has reinforced the field-shelter for her horses with straps. It works. The previous structure couldn’t stand the wind. The local Cricket Club built an extra structure in brieze-block to house their groundskeeping equipment. A severe storm last year blew the flat roof clean off. They have replaced it, and it has now withstood equivalent winds successfully, without straps. It probably has internal metal straps this time. When I studied architecture, one of our tutors had the career-crushing experience of having an entire housing estate that he designed lose their rooves in a high wind. It’s not just the high wind - resonance is a factor too. That’s why those tall metal chimneys have those spiral projections.
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