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Tag: Floods
Why Sea Level Rise Can Exacerbate Anxiety in Homeowners
08/23/23
“Why can sea level rise exacerbate anxiety in homeowners?”
Sea level rise holds the potential to engulf an untold number of houses. For homeowners who are at risk of this will probably find it anxiety-inducing. This is Why Sea Level Rise Can Exacerbate Anxiety in Homeowners. Policy makers, urban planners, and therapists will need to think about how this can be helped.
Why It Is Often a Good Idea to Fill Up Your Car With Gas Before a Storm
08/20/23
“Why is it often a good idea to fill up your car with gas before a storm?”
It can be a common sight to see people fill up their cars with gas before a storm. But why do they do this? Well, there are actually a number of reasons to do so. Gas may not be available during a storm, the gas may need to be used for a generator, an evacuation may be necessary, and pumping gas during a storm may be dangerous. This is Why It Is Often a Good Idea to Fill Up Your Car With Gas Before a Storm.
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Why More Nuisance Flooding Days Can Happen in California During El Niño
08/16/23
“Why can more nuisance flooding days happen in California during El Niño?”
El Niño can trigger higher sea-levels and rainfall in many parts of California. With higher sea-levels rainfall comes the increased potential for floods, including nuisance flooding. This is Why More Nuisance Flooding Days Can Happen in California During El Niño. Urban planners need to take this into consideration when designing flood protections.
Why Sea-Level Rise Will Exacerbate Nuisance Flooding
08/14/23
“Why will sea-level rise exacerbate nuisance flooding?”
Nuisance flooding happens when a nearby body of water makes a flood only strong enough to disrupt daily operations without any serious infrastructure damage. However, sea-level rise will cause the base water to rise, making flooding easier. Not only will this make nuisance flooding more frequent, but also turn events that may have been nuisance floods into serious damage. This is Why Sea-Level Rise Will Exacerbate Nuisance Flooding.
Nuisance Flooding
08/13/23
“How do we classify flooding that disrupts day-to-day activities?”
When we think of flooding, we often picture massive waves crashing into cities and enveloping everything in their wake. However, what happens when it’s just light flooding, only enough to disrupt day-to-day activities and *maybe* cause light infrastructure damage? Events like this is usually called Nuisance Flooding. Nuisance usually occurs at high-tide and the amount of days in a year a town has nuisance flooding is a useful metric to measure how disasters unfold.
What Structures the FEMA 50% Rule Applies To
08/11/23
“What structures does the FEMA 50% rule apply to?”
The FEMA 50% rule governs how countless communities in the U.S. recover after a storm. But what structures have to obey these rules? Well, quite simply all structures that are not already in compliance with the latest standards must rebuild according to FEMA’s 50% rule. These are What Structures the FEMA 50% Rule Applies To.
The FEMA 50% Rule
08/06/23
“Why does FEMA mandate structures that have lost more than half of their market value during floods be rebuilt with full regulations compliance?”
FEMA is one of the primary U.S. federal agencies tasked with helping communities recover after flood disasters. If a structure has lost more than half of its market value due to flood damages, then The FEMA 50% Rule kicks in. The FEMA 50% rule mandates that such structures must be rebuilt to be in full compliance with the latest regulations and that any other improvements are strictly prohibited.
Flood Risk Disclosure
08/04/23
“How do property sellers disclose flood risk to potential buyers?”
Environments can have all types of hazards, including flood risk. Many buildings are built in these areas. A building with flood risk can change the entire calculus for an owner to feel safe in it or not. Because of this, property sellers should bring about Flood Risk Disclosure to inform potential buyers what purchasing the building will entail.
Why It Is Important for Real Estate Agents to Disclose Flood Risks to Home Buyers
08/03/23
“Why is it important for real estate agents to disclose flood risks to home buyers?”
When buying a home it is necessary to know all of the risks associated with a specific location, including flood risk. If your house is in a flood-prone area, then you will have the risk of it getting damaged or even destroyed by inundation at any time. By knowing what you’re up against, you can stray away from the moving into site or invest in flood resilience capacity. In some places (such as California), a real estate agent is legally obligated to disclose to a potential seller that a home is in a flood-risk area. Withholding this information from a home buyer is not only unethical but can also cost them their lives. This is Why It Is Important for Real Estate Agents to Disclose Flood Risks to Home Buyers.
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