Insight from Leslie Chapman-Henderson, president and CEO of the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Same area coming this week
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will stick around with me.
You said now is never a better
time to be prepared.
Two storms bearing down
California destroyed by
wildfires
figure out how we can be
prepared.
We bring in Leslie Chapman
Flash Federal Alliance for save
homes.
Rick pointed out. We have natural
disasters on two coasts,
start with tropical storm and
hurricanes
share with me. What homeowners
can do to prepare for something
like this?
What is the biggest
vulnerabilities protecting our
homes?
We want you to be hurricane
strong. The way you do that,
keeping wind and water out
Hurricane strong dot org. We have
everything you need to know
checklists podcasts.
I want to highlight things that
are simple and affordable. If
you have a little bit of diy in
your soul, you can get these done
now
start in the garage look inside
out
make sure you have enough
connectors and mounting Brac
torts on either side of the
garage door
when the door fails. It fails.
Ninety five percent,
we want the track overhead and
door to stay in place,
will strengthen your garage
roof soffits.
How do we prepare for these
types of natural disasters?
Your organization is
centralized spot for information
for people,
especially with covid. You need
a better plan in plains, even
than they would normally with
this kind of a year.
You know a lot about insurance
and codes for homes.
Talk a little bit about that.
Now
people can find out the best
information for their particular
home for what you guys do
sure
again, with focus on things you
can do now today have an
insurance checkup
get on the phone to your
company. What is my deductible,
so you know how much
out of pocket you will have
another great thing to do: have
home insurance inventory, update
cell phone on video
walk through the house,
close up shops of serial
numbers file numbers,
any type of insurance claim will
be smoother easier faster.
It is really hard to recover
from these events.
Everything you do right now can
bring you back faster.
When it comes to the house, you
need to probably figure out your
building code.
We can help you with that too,
because that is the recipe that
was used to construct your home,
and you will know if you can be
safe at home.
We know with covid people want
to stay and shelter in place
as long as youre, not in a
hurricane evacuation zone. You
can do that, but you got to
protect your openings check
your garage
and take advantage of some of
the many affordable hacks that
we have online for you that
really a lot of them are just
about caulking and adhesive
safely. Getting on a ladder.
If you get stuck,
call us well help you through
it
will Leslie a ton of
information at their website.
Flash
preparing for wildfires, not.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-23.