Resources
Guides and Articles
There are thousands of resources out there providing advice on damages, mitigation, remediation, insurance, the works. We've included some guides and articles below that we think are worth your time.
ASBESTOS AND NATURAL DISASTERS GUIDE
How to Ensure Your Safety From Asbestos and Debris After a Disaster
When people think of hurricanes or natural disasters, the obvious threats come to mind: destroyed homes, falling trees, downed power lines, wild animals, and more. But most people forget that millions of buildings in the United States are still filled to the brim with asbestos.
Our friends over at The Mesothelioma Center have this to say:
"Debris caused by hurricanes can expose homeowners, emergency workers and volunteers participating in the cleanup process to hazardous materials that can contain asbestos. Asbestos exposure is a leading cause of cancer. The amount of debris that piles up after a hurricane is significant and can quickly overwhelm a community and breakdown normally strict guidelines for handling hazardous materials."
The Mesothelioma Center has put together a great (and potentially lifesaving) guide on what you need to know about asbestos during natural disasters. The button below will even skip you directly to the portion of the article on hurricanes!
Tools and Lists
From infographics to checklists, these resources for safety, hurricane preparedness, and insurance claims in Boynton Beach and South Florida should be helpful for you and your family.
HURRICANE KIT CHECKLIST
Anything and Everything You Need to Survive and Thrive
We've made a hurricane kit checklist just for you. This covers everything from medicine to foodstuffs to entertainment. You may find items on there that you don't personally need. You might have additional needs that aren't addressed by this checklist. But this should serve as an extensive guideline for what you need to get through a deadly storm and its aftermath.
This is the same checklist available in our annual Hurricane Season newsletter.
HAZARDAWARE.ORG
Free Resource to Help Prepare Your Property and Wallet for Disaster
HazardAware is a free resource created by researchers at the University of Central Florida that provides information on natural hazard loss, frequency, and mitigation for residential buildings for (currently) 196 counties and parishes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Just by typing in an address, you get a dynamically driven hazard-ready score that allows you to see how well your property holds up against potential hazards like hurricanes, flash flooding, tornadoes, hail, and drought.
Try it out below for free and see what hazards your home or business may be susceptible to, how much those hazards might cost to repair, and find out advice on hurricane preparedness for insurance claims throughout Florida (from Boynton Beach to St. Petersburg), and how to prevent or minimize potential damages.