Good or bad door advice? (2025 Update)

I'm not sure it would make a difference during the powerful gusts that have the greatest velocity during a hurricane. At least looking at windows, I've seen storm windows be bowed both inward and bowed outward by the alternating applied pressure and sudden relative vacuum during strong gusts.

Doing a little more searching, in parts of Florida outward opening is code. Mine is inward opening, but my kitchen is a slider.

Having lived up north, I've had a good bit of snow in front of the door that would block out swing.

Sort of a difficult problem when one has a regular door that needs to open inward so the storm door can open outward.

With high winds and storm most of the house will be gone any way. Reminds me of the old saying about the fire department getting there in time to save the chimney.

That's what the storm door is for.

The door we use most frequently is a sliding patio door.

Just today I saw video on the news of someone wandering around abandoned houses from Helene and the one he picked he mentioned had a door that opened outwards but it was still pushed in and all the furniture strewn around. But that might be an extreme case and it might well help in many other cases.

Did I mention here that when I was on one of my 3-month trips, the townhouse next to me was vacant, and they were showing it to a potential buyer, and they heard the radio which I'd put on a timer to discourage burglars, and they realized they hadn't seen me for a long time, and they called the police, who kicked in my front door?

I found out about this while I was gone during a phone call to another neighbor. I had to plan that when I got home, even after a trip with a long fligtht etc., to allow time to get into the house. They had shut the door, but when I pushed it open I found that only the top hinge was still connected, and I had to fix the door right away. Had to go to the hardware store to buy long screws. Their kick also took off the molding around the inside of the door and a 10" wide pieced of sheetrock about 6 feet high, and left a foot print on the door.

They left some sort of note but it was lying on the stoop, rained on, wet, and illegible from the rain.

up here in snow country the inside door swings in and the outer "storm" door swings out. Now if the outer latch doesn't hold the winf can grab that door and tear the hinge right off - sending the door flying down the street If snow blocks the door we can always exit thruogh the rear slider (patio door) to grab the shovel

yea mine opens inward as well, never thought about it. but i live in a flat, so its not really an issue.