Maintaining the ground around your home is one way to protect your house from flooding. Improper drainage causes excess water to accumulate around the home and increases soil erosion. Over time, soil erosion causes your home to sink, lowering its elevation and increasing the risk of flooding. Th...
Protect your home and contents If your home floods, you may need to shut off your electricity, water or gas supply, so make sure you know where your breakers and meters are located. If you think your local area is at risk of flooding, think carefully about where your car is parked –...
6 Fill your car's gas tank at the earliest suspicion of flood-producing weather or conditions. It will be your quick getaway if the time comes.7 Move what furniture and valuables you can to the highest floor of the house, or in single story homes, raise them off of the gr...
What happens if your home floods and you don’t have flood insurance? If your entire house is destroyed in a flood, and you do not have flood insurance, you’re going to have a really hard time finding the money to rebuild. You have a couple of options: Maybe you are independentl...
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and chronically wet basements, but if a river is rising nearby or a coastal storm surge is imminent, the best advice is to move your valuables to a high floor, then evacuate. And if there are flash-flood warnings, be quick about it. These floods move fast and tend to ...
Floods. Wildfires. Deadly heat. Rising seas. In the face of scary climate news, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. After all, extreme weather not only poses health risks but can also make it harder and more expensive to insure your home. Here are steps you can take to protect your house,...
They said it covers losses from a fire that is caused by a quake if such a fire makes my home unlivable. No thanks. That’s when I asked around and discovered California Earthquake Authority (CEA) Insurance. CEA earthquake insurance can protect your house, condo-unit, mobile home, an...
How Municipalities can protect themselves from urban FloodsBrendt, ThomasBIT Ingenieure AGWasserwirtschaft