Fl Risk Blog

If you have questions about your home’s storm readiness, consider having a home inspector review your home’s condition.

Think about other improvements. The Federal Alliance for Safe Homes has step-by-step instructions for reinforcing your home’s roof, gable ends and other vulnerable areas.

Check your garage door. If your door needs replacing, look for a reinforced, wind-rated model.

Check weather stripping and caulking around windows and doors, replacing if necessary.

Shutter your windows. Glass can be broken by flying debris. Protecting your windows can keep storm winds and rain out and your roof on. Duct tape provides no protection.

1. If your roof needs replacment, a new one can be installed to meet stronger building codes adopted in 2002.

1. What is my deductible?

2. What is my hurricane deductible?

3. Do I need flood insurance?

4. Do I have enough coverage to replace my home and belongings?

5. Do I have loss-of-use coverage for temporary housing expenses?

Mike says a metric measurement of atmospheric pressure. Standard atmospheric pressure is 1013.2 milibars or 29.92 inches of mercury on a barometer.

A weakness is the term given to the weakening side of an area of high pressure. Often a tropical storm or hurricane will follow the periphery of high pressure. If there is a weakness, the storm will tend to curve toward that weakness.

Mike says a high pressure system centered near Bermuda that can extend across the Atlantic Ocean and can steer storms toward or away from Florida, depending on its location.