How to prevent storm damage

8/16/2019 (Permalink)

Think about your landscaping

Having creative landscaping designed to guide water away from your home’s foundation can help prevent flooding in your home. It's important that the ground slopes away from your house. There should be a slope of a quarter- inch per foot heading downhill away from your home's foundation. If you need to, add some soil to create this grade. Take advantage of gravity to pull the water away from the house and prevent summer storm damage. 

Pack up outdoor furniture- Here’s the deal:

Your patio table and chairs look great. But in a storm, they can get turned into missiles if they get picked up by a strong gust of wind. And then they can get thrown right into your house. Ouch.

Anyways, be sure to pack up all your outdoor furniture and decorations to prevent that from happening. Avoid the chair-smashes-a-window scenario and spare yourself the headache of dealing with the storm damage.

Know how to shut off your utilities 

If the weather gets really severe, you may need to turn off your utilities. Know how to do this ahead of time so you’re not guessing and saying “umm” a lot when a storm hits.

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