College students develop tech that could help save homes in disasters: 'Need to predict'

College students develop tech that could help save homes in disasters: 'Need to predict'

Florida is the No. 1 hurricane state, having been hit by 120 hurricanes between 1851 and 2018. Still, exact data on how hurricanes impact man-made structures and the natural environment has not been documented.  That is, until Florida Institute of Technology student Diego Robles Cortes, graduate student Jian Zhang, and the rest of their team began to gather wind data, according to Spectrum News 1. The team at the Wind and Hurricane Impact Resear…