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Source: FEMA.gov Best Mitigation Practices News Feed

• Thu, 10 May 2018 17:23:44 +0000: The Miracle House - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  CIALES, PR -Using family owned property and her life savings, a Ciales resident built a retirement home which soon came to be referred to as "the miracle house".

  Mitigation Best Practices - May 2018

• Thu, 10 May 2018 17:23:44 +0000: Sand Dune Restoration Protects Coastal Communities - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  BEAUMONT, TX — As Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August 2017, a 3-mile section of newly built sand dunes stood as a first-line defense against the powerful Category 4 hurricane.

  Mitigation Best Practices - May 2018

• Thu, 10 May 2018 17:23:43 +0000: Home Built for Living on the Coast - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  ISABELLA, PR – 2017 proved to be an unprecedented year for Puerto Rico as the island was severely impacted by two major hurricanes days apart – Irma and Maria. Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane made landfall September 20th in Puerto Rico with winds up to 155 MPH, powerful enough to uproot concrete utility poles. Yet, Benjamin Medina Vega’s home weathered the storm.

  Mitigation Best Practices - May 2018

• Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:51:27 +0000: Mitigation: A Tale of Two Restaurants - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  DICKINSON, TX —Restaurateur Keith Lilley had lived through other catastrophic storms and was not surprised when tons of water were dumped on his tiny hometown of Dickinson, about 30 miles south of Houston, after Hurricane Harvey.

  Mitigation Best Practices - April 2018

• Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:59:27 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Hazard Mitigation Grant Ensures Bayfield County will be Prepared for Power Outages - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  An historic courthouse in Wisconsin was experiencing multiple power outages each year. The building is a critical structure that houses most county offices and is also designed as an emergency shelter for the area. A solution to the power outages that affected critical services to the community needed to be designed. 

  Finding a solution required exploring grant opportunities available at FEMA. See how they were able to solve their problem

• Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:48:41 +0000: Miigation Best Practice - Hazard Mitigation Works in Bayfield County to Prevent Damage - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  When the Horseshoe Creek in Bayfield County, Wisconsin floods, it sometimes causes the closure of Nicoletti Road. It is not only an inconvenience for motorists but was also a safety concern since a road washout could become an obstacle for first responder vehicles. That’s why the Town of Clover decided to take action and develop a hazard mitigation strategy to replace a culvert with a larger one that would help alleviate flooding issues.

• Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:14:37 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Mitigation Lowers Financial Risks of Building near the River - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tell how one man, before starting construction of his new home, met with Bastrop County’s floodplain administrator to obtain a building permit and seek advice about how to protect his new home from flood risks posed by the Colorado River.

• Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:49:39 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Texas Panhandle Partnership Implements Regional Alert System - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story talks about the reverse calling systems plays a key role in ensuring effective routine and critical communication to alert local residents and mobilize personnel in a timely manner. In May 2015, an emergency alert regional system in northwestern Texas proved invaluable when it provided mass notification of severe weather and flooding to responders and communities in central and south Texas.

• Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:41:30 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Increased Cost of Compliance Funds Help Defray Mitigation Costs - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells about one couple and that they knew they would have to buy flood insurance when they bought a home in a Special Flood Hazard Area. They didn’t know the many ways their flood policy would help them.

  As NFIP policyholders, homeowners in high-risk areas can get up to $30,000 in Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) funds to help pay the costs to bring their home or business into compliance with their community's floodplain ordinance.

• Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:33:46 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Property Manager Prepares Tenants for Hurricane Season - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how one Property Manager hosted a two-hour session on hurricane preparedness for the residents of her Harris County Housing Authority Complex should they be forced to embrace a hurricane. She launches her hurricane awareness outreach during the month of April or May, where all residents are invited to attend.

   

• Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:26:43 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Buyouts a Win-Win for Harris County and Residents - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story talks about property acquisitions, or buyouts, and how why they rank as the best way to prevent future flood damage.

• Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:18:33 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Investment in Mass Communication System Proves Beneficial - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how Weatherford, Texas, uses a mass communication system to warn citizens of natural or man-made disasters.

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:24:49 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Playa Lakes Provide Flood Protection for Texas High Plains Residents - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how playa lakes, which are shallow enclosed flat basins of a desert plain, are an essential element of drainage systems within Levelland, Texas..

  After rainstorms, these basins typically fill with rain, creating a freshwater lake that is generally large in area but very shallow. When the water evaporates or soaks into the surrounding soil or aquifer, a playa is formed. The playa appears as a flat bed of clay encrusted with precipitated salts.

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:14:02 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Interactive Inundation Maps: Ottawa and Freeport, Illinois - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tell how the National Weather Service, in partnership with the Illinois State Water Survey and FEMA, has issued new flood inundation maps for major rivers in the cities of Ottawa and Freeport, Illinois.

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:21:07 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Investing in New Approaches: Donation Leads to Advances in Disaster Management in Baton Rouge - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how one couple watched from their home in Nevada as Hurricane Katrina roared from the Gulf of Mexico into New Orleans, resulting in massive devastation and death. They were horrified at the chaos that unfolded during and following Katrina’s landfall, and for them the disaster struck a little closer to home.

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:00:35 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Investing in New Approaches: Donation Leads to Advances in Disaster Management in St. Charles Parish - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how some forms of federal grant assistance, for the repair and improvement of critical infrastructure and residential property, only become available following a Presidentially-declared disaster. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a number of communities in Louisiana, many with limited resources, had the opportunity to apply to the State for significant amounts of grant money. A portion of these monies allowed some communities to enact mitigation measures that help resist future damages from natural or man-made disasters.

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:36:02 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Insurance Gained and Kept - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how one had much to be grateful for following the March 2016 flooding of his home. He is most grateful, however, that no one ever recommended he drop flood insurance for his home

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 16:26:52 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Doss Home Elevation - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This Best Practice tells of one family's journey in rebuilding their home after a flood and the steps they took.

• Fri, 07 Oct 2016 15:45:40 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - A Center for Louisiana Called Uno-Chart - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how the University of New Orleans (UNO) develops best practice projects that recognize and assess hazards (environmental/natural or man-made, including technology), supports practices to reduce risks of hazards, and encourages behaviors that promote resilience. At the present time, UNO-CHART’s projects are usually in south Louisiana, but have included other regions of the state and parts of Texas.

   

   

• Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:48:28 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - East Texas Community Sees Far Less Flooding with Construction of Detention Pond - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tell how the small city of Pine Forest, located 15 miles northeast of Beaumont, Texas, sustained minimal damage, due in part to the city’s two-acre stormwater detention pond. Homes near the detention pond escaped virtually unscathed.

• Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:40:54 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Emergency Manager’s Efforts in Hard-Hit Texas Area Ensure Community Readiness - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how the Emergency Management Coordinator and Floodplain Administrator took a proactive approach to engaging the communities he serves in preparing for when disaster strikes.

• Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:31:47 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Digs in to Help Carencro - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how the city of Carencro began working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to solve the problem of water taking too long to drain from the area. With USACE providing half the funding and Carencro providing the rest, USACE began the study that came to be known as the Coulee Cleaning Project. The study’s intent was to determine how best to channel water away from Carencro. With so many streams and waterways to consider, the study was sure to be complex.

• Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:20:22 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Water Pump Protects North Little Rock Community - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how the homes in the Rose City subdivision of North Little Rock, Arkansas, were kept flood-free during the severe weather of Christmas 2015, thanks to a 1800-2200 gallon-per-minute water pump put in place by the city’s Public Works Department.

   

• Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:12:59 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - New Rest Areas Designed with Tornado Safety in Mind - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story tells how the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is constructing new rest area facilities throughout the state to provide more services and a safer experience for travelers. Not only are the new facilities equipped with surveillance cameras, air-conditioned and heated restrooms, as well as an assisted-use restroom, they have tornado shelters.

• Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:03:08 +0000: Mitigation Best Practice - Texas Water Development Board Helps Guadalupe County Safeguard Severe Repetitive Loss Properties - Mitigation Best Practices
  

  This story is about the Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) grant program and how they assists states and communities.