In this economic recovery, however, homes have done much more than shelter people from wind and rain.

ECONOMIST: International house prices

When the Palestinian fighters came from Jordan in the late 1960s we had more say here, and they encouraged us to get out of the wind and rain and we made houses out of concrete blocks for the first time.

BBC: Shatila stories: Muhammad Diab

The report noted that storms generating more than an inch of rain could happen twice as often, and that wind speeds are dropping.

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