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Lights Out Cooking: A 72-Hour Emergency Preparedness Cookbook

When the power goes out, Lights Out Cooking: A 72-Hour Emergency Preparedness Cookbook helps you make simple, nutritious meals for your family. Use this cookbook to help your family stay safe, fed, a…

Florida Homeowner’s Handbook

We all know Mother Nature can be intense and devastating. While there may be many reasons to put off hazard preparation, your family and home deserve protection that only you can provide. If you live…

FAQs After Gutting Your Flooded Home

23 frequently asked questions with answers – unbiased information – based on building science principles and practices, to help home owners, contractors and workers make informed decisions. From maki…

Storm Damage Cleanup Highlights

This fact sheet highlights key guidelines to help you safely and effectively clean and restore your storm-damaged home. See also the LSU AgCenter “Storm Recovery Guide”.

Indiana Weather and Climate Synopsis by County

Provides weather forecasts, summaries, historical data and outlooks for Indiana counties. Produced by University of Kentucky.

Preparing Farm Operations for Extreme Weather: General Strategies for Producers

52 Ways to Hazard-Proof Your Finances

The consequences of climate change are substantial and escalating due to the increased frequency and severity of weather events, rising sea levels, and higher temperatures (U.S. Department of the Tre…

Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness

Be aware. Be prepared. The last Cascadia Subduction Zone event Magnitude 8.0 to 9.1 was on January 26, 1700 (more than 320 years ago), and they happen about every 280 to 350 years. It is time to get …

Rebuild Healthy Homes

HUD’s Rebuild Healthy Homes: Guide to Post-disaster Restoration for a Safe and Healthy Home is a very detailed and comprehensive how-to guide for homeowners and volunteers that is available as a free…

Shock Chlorination of a Private Well

This video demonstrates the steps to chlorinate a well following a flood. Provides a clear, step-by-step explanation of private well systems, how to calculate water volume and the amount of chlorine …

Cascadia Action Steps: It’s Time to Get Ready

Cascadia Action Steps checklist shows how Oregon residents and guests can prepare to survive and rebuild after the expected Cascadia earthquake and resulting tsunami.

Climate and Health Adaptation Planning Guide for Michigan Communities

The climate is changing in the Great Lakes Region (Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments [GLISA], n.d.). The average temperature, the frost-free season, total precipitation, and the number …

Caring for Flooded Lawns

Provides advice for restoring lawns that have been silted, eroded, contaminated with chemicals and exposed to disease causing organisms.

Replacing Important Documents

Important papers may be destroyed, lost or damaged as a result of a disaster. The information on this fact sheet will help people find the resources they need to replace their important documents.

Annual Meeting 2020

Registration VIRTUAL EVENT September 22-25, 2020 and optional Post-Conference Workshop on September 25 Registration Fees: Meeting Registration – 3-day Event – September 22-24, 2020 Full Registration …

Management of stored grain with aeration

Informs managers of stored grain how to operate grain aeration systems to reduce grain deterioration. For grain producers.

Storm Recovery Guide

Topics include safety and health advice, dealing with financial loss, risk management, restoring storm-damaged buildings, salvaging belongings, and lawn and garden care. Consolidates content that was…

Flood-Related Diseases in Poultry & Livestock

Three-page fact-sheet. Advises taking special precautions against flood-related diseases in poultry and livestock. Give animals extra care, particularly if they have been stranded by floodwater and h…

No Power? No Problem: Tips to Help You Thrive in the Face of Disaster

This publication focuses on how residents can cope with the loss of power to their homes. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are likely to lose power during a disaster, but there are many …

Louisiana NFIP FloodMaps Portal Services

The LSU AgCenter Flood Maps portal was created in 2008 as a building-code education tool for wind-resistance, and was later expanded to help the people of Louisiana engage in the process of revising …

Removing Mold in Your Home

A fact sheet for safely removing mold on a variety of surfaces in the home and on household textiles and cleaning up mold after flooding.

Keeping Food Safe Before and After a Flood

When a natural disaster such as a flood strikes a community, the risk of getting a foodborne illness increases. Take the proper precautions before and after a flood to ensure the safety of your food.

Caring for Livestock During Disasters

Provides guidelines for stock owners to implement when an event is underway. Specific attention is given to floods, winter weather, tornadoes and hurricanes, wildfire and drought. Addresses common is…

Using Sandbags for Flood Protection

Publication contains information on properly filling and stacking sandbags and on using them for short walls and full levees.