Palm Harbor Homes – BUILT IRMA STRONG!SM
When you are forced to evacuate your home and possessions to protect your life, you feel much more secure about leaving if you own a Palm Harbor home.
"Irma was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina in 2005, and the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in 2005, 12 years before."
Irma's Destruction: September 10, 2017
Of the 659 homes in Venture Out Resort, a community in Cudjoe Key where Irma first made landfall, over 100 homes were destroyed. But not one of the 15 Palm Harbor homes in Cudjoe Key were among those that were destroyed.
Hurricane Irma’s storm center finally made landfall on Cudjoe Key in the lower Florida Keys on the morning September 10, 2017. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, its top sustained winds were 130 mph. In the rain-soaked hours and days ahead, Irma proceeded north through Florida and up into Georgia and the Carolina’s, leaving intense flooding, massive power outages and complete devastation and destruction in its wake. Irma was the most intense Atlantic hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina in 2005, and the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in 2005, 12 years before.
Coming Home to Palm Harbor
Slowly, evacuees from the Florida Keys and the path of Irma’s devastation returned to their homes in Florida, anxious to see what Irma had left them. In the days and weeks following, we were pleased to begin hearing from many of our happy and relieved homeowners who contacted us, eager to share their personal customer testimonials of how well their Palm Harbor homes had weathered Hurricane Irma. Here are just a few we wanted to share.
- See how we weathered Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992
- See how we weathered Hurricane Charley in Florida in 2004
- See how we weathered Hurricane Ike in Texas and Louisiana in 2008
- See how we weathered Hurricane Michael in Florida in 2018
- What makes a Palm Harbor home strong? Learn how our building process provides the additional strength our modular and manufactured homes need to weather the storms.