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Guide describing ways to strengthen roof assemblies for resistance to hurricanes, high winds, and earthquakes.
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Guide describing ways to retrofit an existing roof to increase its resistance to damage during hurricanes, high winds, and earthquakes.
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Video presentation describing wood framing design to withstand extreme forces from severe weather.
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Guide describing how to provide a continuous load path with appropriate connectors to improve the wind resistance of attached porches, carports, and decks during high-wind events.
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Guide describing how to provide a strong continuous load path from the roof through the wall to the foundation to ensure a structurally sound building and increase racking resistance in hurricanes, high winds, tornados, and earthquakes.
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Guide describing requirements for sheathing and sealing the roof decking in accordance with the requirements of the IBHS Fortified Home Program's Hurricane and High Wind Standards, and other roofing considerations to increase the roof's disaster resistance.
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USGS
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Website containing USGS-related publications related to natural hazards.
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Video showing how to design high-wind-resistant foundations according to FLASH Strong Home guidelines.
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FEMA
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Database describing FEMA preparedness webinars including natural hazard preparedness.
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Video discussing effective methods to landscape homes for wildfire and high winds from FLASH Strong Home recommendations.
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USDHS
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A fact sheet providing tips on how to assemble a kit of food, water and other disaster supplies in the event of an emergency.
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FEMA,
American Red Cross
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A fact sheet on how to prepare for a natural disaster by storing food and water through an emergency food supply.
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FEMA,
American Red Cross
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Fact sheet describing how to prepare for a natural disaster and assemble a disaster supply kit.
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OSHA
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A fact sheet educating the public on the potential hazards and safe use of portable generators.
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FEMA
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Report providing a resource that communities can use to identify and evaluate a range of potential mitigation actions for reducing risk to natural hazards and disasters.
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Journal of Light Construction,
JLC
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Article describing how adhesives can be used to make homes in high-wind locations stronger and how adhesives could be too effective resulting in overloading foundation anchors under earthquake loads.
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FEMA
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FEMA risk management series guide on hospital safety and resilience to natural disasters.
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AIA
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Report describing the experience gained from AIA’s Disaster Assistance Program with first-hand accounts of disaster response and recovery, case studies and other best practices, including approaches to designing buildings to be more adaptable to uncertainty.
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Guide describing the advantages and disadvantages of gable roofs and hip roofs and how both designs react under high wind loads.
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Video showing how to protect your home against both earthquakes and high winds and how similar design strategies can work for both events per FLASH Strong Homes guidelines.
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Video demonstrating how all connections are critical in creating a continuous path for loads acting on a building (from the exhibition Designing for Disaster at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.© National Building Museum (2014))
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IBHS
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Videos showing two full-scale, two-story, 1,300-square-foot houses that were placed next to each other in the IBHS test chamber—one built using conventional construction standards common in the Midwest and one built to IBHS’ FORTIFIED code-plus standards. Both were subjected to the same severe high...
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Video describing the principles of creating IRC-compliant walls with full sheathing according to APA - The Engineered Wood Association practices.
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Video presentation covering seismic and wind design for wood-framed structures on the topics of load path continuity, building codes, and shear wall design alternatives.
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Guide describing fuel tank anchoring practices for disaster resistance.