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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. Basement waterproofing - Wikipedia

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   Waterproofing is usually required by building codes for structures that are built at or below ground level. Waterproofing and drainage considerations are especially important in cases where ground water is likely to build up in the soil or where there is a high water table.

5. Few have flood insurance to help recover from devastating ...

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   The National Flood Insurance Program covers up to $250,000 for a building and offers policies to protect contents worth as much as $100,000. ... “Nobody wants to elevate their house or do flood ...

6. 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.

7. What is flood insurance, and why do you need it? - AOL

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   Under FEMA policies, coverage for single-family homes is capped at $250,000 for a building’s damage and $100,000 for its contents. For businesses, the maximum coverage is $500,000 for each.

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. 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.