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How to Clean Clothes After a Hurricane or Flood

Water damage can make it difficult to decide which items to keep and which to remove from your home. Floodwater can be contaminated with bacteria/viruses, chemicals, sewage, and asbestos. This public…

Strengthening Awareness for Food Safety Emergencies - Educator Toolkit

The Strengthening Awareness for Food Safety Emergencies (SAFE) Educator Toolkit provides ready-to-use, research-based resources to help educators teach food safety before, during, and after emergenci…

Introduction to Flooding in Iowa

Series of web-based videos about floodplains, flood risks, and basic floodplain management principles. Includes participant materials and surveys.

Flood, Wind and Water Resistance Features Used in Building LaHouse

Often used for self-guided tours – in person, or view the web. LaHouse is a showcase for best practices and code-plus construction. Its flood- and wind-resistance features meet or exceed the criteria…

Plan for 2009 Crop Year by Managing Flooded Soils

Resource explaining how to plan how to manage the soil for the year after a flood. Deals specifically with recovery from the 2008 floods. Explains how to plan how to manage the soil for the year afte…

Plan Today for Tomorrow’s Flood

A Flood Response Plan for Agricultural Retailers publication. Rare planning guide for making a farm flood-resistant.

Insulating Raised Floors in Hot, Humid Climates

For homeowners, designers, and builders of homes with raised wood subfloors in flood zone areas with high water table or open pier and beam designs. Summarizes of a study of the subfloor moisture lev…

Managing Flood Risks on Farms

This fact sheet is online at https://publications.extension.uconn.edu/publication/flood-risks-farms/

Wet Floodproofing

Defines Wet Floodproofing, comparing it to other flood damage reduction measures, and provides general guidance on types of improvements and materials choices that can lead to reduced damage in futur…

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…

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.

Nebraska Extension: Flood Resources

Info that covers health and hazards, property, emotional and financial impact, crops and cropland, and saturated soil risk.

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…

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 …

Residential Gardens and Flooding

Build Safer Stronger Smarter: Elevating an Existing Home

For homeowners who have flooded or whose home is below the required base flood elevations. Provides rationale, alternatives and incentives for elevating. Elevation is the most effective on-site metho…

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.

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 …

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…

Formosan Subterranean Termite Control & Prevention After Hurricanes and Flooding

Information on preventing Formosan subterranean termites from spreading, disposing of termite-infested wood and debris, transporting mulch and other wood debris, inspecting and re-treating, signs of …

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 …

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…

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…