When Hurricane Irma tore through Florida in 2017, it unknowingly became the subject of a long-overdue experiment in collective foresight. Researchers from Kyoto and Kobe universities, tracing blue tarps across a million rooftops with drone imagery, found that homes built to Florida's stricter 2001 standards were 22 percent less likely to suffer wind damage — and 27 percent less severely harmed when they did. The findings arrive as a quiet vindication of the unglamorous work of building codes, suggesting that resilience against an intensifying climate is not only possible, but already partially