Sliding glass doors should be made of tempered glass. They should still be covered with shutters or plywood. These types of doors are more vulnerable to storm damage than most other doors.

Hurricane-proof exterior doors, sliding doors and garage doors and consider storm shutters. Anchor boats or trailers to the ground. Kaitlyn McCormick writes about trending issues and community ...

and firefighters had difficulty dealing with storm shutters. "They were working frantically to try to take the shutters off of the widows and the sliding glass doors," Hernandez said.

One woman rents a North Palm Beach townhouse on the Intracoastal Waterway with large, glass sliding doors ... shutters, either. The managers eventually relented, he said. Explore>>Hurricane ...