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2. How to prepare your home for a hurricane - AOL

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   When hurricane-proofing your doors, you might also want to install flashing (check your manufacturer’s guidelines first), as well as overlapping house wrap or building paper to protect the flashing.

3. Hurricane-proof building - Wikipedia

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   Interlocking metal pan roof systems installed on mobile homes can fail under the pressure differential (lift) created by the high-velocity winds passing over the surface plane of the roof. This is compounded by the wind entering the building allowing the building interior to pressurize, lifting the underside of the roof panels, resulting in the ...

4. Resilience (engineering and construction) - Wikipedia

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   A home in Gilchrist, Texas, designed to resist flood waters survived Hurricane Ike in 2008.. In the fields of engineering and construction, resilience is the ability to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure and is an objective of design, maintenance and restoration for buildings and infrastructure, as well as communities.

5. Tropical cyclone preparedness - Wikipedia

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   Hurricane preparedness kits usually include drinkable water, sealed pre-prepared meals MRE, first-aid kits, prescription medications in sealed containers, waterproof battery-powered or hand-crank-powered flashlights and radios, a whistle or other sound-signaling device, a multi-tool with a knife, identification and medical cards, any necessary ...

6. Want to build a home in a flood-prone zone? NJ soon ... - AOL

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   "Obviously the home will be safer at that (higher) elevation, but the cost of that home is going to be significantly higher because of the new freeboard (or elevation over base flood level)," he said.

7. Carteret project to fix flood-prone neighborhood - AOL

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   CARTERET – During Superstorm Sandy, flood waters destroyed three apartment buildings in the borough which is boarded by two major waterways, the Arthur Kill and the Rahway River.

8. Flashing (weatherproofing) - Wikipedia

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   In earlier days, birch bark was occasionally used as a flashing material. [7] Most flashing materials today are metal, plastic, rubber, or impregnated paper. [8]Metal flashing materials include lead, aluminium, copper, [1] stainless steel, zinc alloy, other architectural metals or a metal with a coating such as galvanized steel, lead-coated copper, anodized aluminium, terne-coated copper ...

9. Residents could get £8,000 to flood-proof homes - AOL

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   Measures include self-closing air bricks, reinforced flood doors and pumps, the council says. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...