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Roof Damage Preventing, spotting and repairing roof damage: Rain, hail, sleet, and snow might not stop the U.S. Mail from its appointed rounds however those parts will, over time, stop your roof from doing its job. With the typical price in 2016 of roof repairs over $690 and roof replacements higher than $7,000, stopping injury before it happens could be a good plan. Here are the things you must pay specific attention to once inspecting your roof for damage Material failure: Flashing is that the metal that connects the chimney, vents, and skylights to the roof. Also, it connects construction roofs to the second story. examine the flashing every ten years to make sure it hasn’t unsound or cracked, that rubber gaskets around plumbing vents haven’t deteriorated which the metal collars on vents used with gas appliances stay tight. The calculable value of flashing: regarding $50 per roll. Check the surface of asphalt shingles to make sure their grains area unit ...

The Ten Deadliest U.S. Tornadoes On Record What would you consider the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history? TWC Severe Weather Expert, Dr. Greg Forbes combed through damage costs (adjusted for inflation through 2011) and fatality statistics in order to rank the nation's worst single tornadoes, using a 100-point scale. Of course, there are many ways one can combine and scale this data, so, this is just one possibility.  The higher the index, the "worse" or more impactful the tornado. You may be surprised to find that the April 3, 1974 "Superoutbreak" did not have a single tornado on the list.  "None of the 1974 Superoutbreak tornadoes individually were exceptionally deadly, which kept them off the list," says Dr. Forbes. The 10 Deadliest  Tornadoes On Record: [1] The "Tri-State Tornado" killed 695 people and injured 2,027, traveling more than 300 miles through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18,...

Is Monday’s hailstorm among the costliest to hit the Denver area? Agency that tallies them in “wait and see” mode Reports of broken windows, flooding and damaged cars ripple across metro area The damage from Monday’s hailstorm was severe and widespread in the Denver metro area, breaking out windows at a university, flooding sections of a hospital and shattering windshields and pummeling roofs on scores of cars. But was the storm destructive enough to make it on to the top 10 list of Colorado’s most damaging hailstorms? “We’re still in a ‘wait and see’ mode,” said Carole Walker, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association, which tallies the financial cost of storms and natural disasters in Colorado. “But any time we start using sports terms — gold ball, tennis ball or baseball sized — we’re concerned that it’s a catastrophic event.” A quick scroll through Twitter on Monday turned up plenty of photos from in and around Denv...

More than 1,000 Firefighters Battling Largest Fire in Los Angeles History (CNN)California Gov. Jerry Brown issued a state of emergency for Los Angeles County on Sunday due to the ongoing La Tuna brush fire near Burbank. Since the fire started Friday, it has burned more than 5,895 acres, forced residents to evacuate from their homes, shut down an interstate and sent massive plumes of smoke into the air. Brown's declaration will allow state personnel and equipment to be used in fighting the fires, at the direction of the California Office of Emergency Services . But there were signs Sunday night that emergency personnel was beginning to drive back the blaze. The Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement 6.30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. ET) that the fire was 25% contained. All mandatory and voluntary evacuations had been formally lifted, it said, and a section of interstate closed due to fire and smoke had reopened. Four firefighters had non-life-threatening in...

Only 3 Category-5 hurricanes have ever hit the U.S. It's been 25 years since a Category 5 hurricane struck the U.S., and Irma could potentially become just the fourth storm of that strength to barrel into the states. Hurricane Irma is a monster storm in the Atlantic with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph. Only one Atlantic hurricane on record, Allen in 1980, contained stronger winds, at 190 mph. The only Category 5 hurricanes to hit the U.S. are Andrew in 1992, Camille in 1969 and an unnamed storm in 1935. These monster storms cause "catastrophic damage," the National Hurricane Center said. Category 5 hurricanes destroy a high percentage of homes, often causing total roof failure and wall collapses. Fallen trees and power poles isolate residential areas. Power outages last for weeks or months. And areas can be uninhabitable for the same time frame. 1935 'Labor Day' hurricane: The strongest hurricane on record to hit the U.S. ...

Increasing Flood Threat in USA The East Coast of the United States is threatened by more frequent flooding in the future . This is shown by a recent study by the Universities of Bonn, South Florida, and Rhode Island. According to this, the states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are most at risk. Their coastal regions are being immersed by up to three millimeters per year – among other things, due to human intervention. The work is published in the journal Scientific Reports by the Nature Publishing Group. Cities such as Miami on the East Coast of the USA are being affected by flooding more and more frequently. The causes are often not hurricanes with devastating rainfall such as Katrina, or the recent hurricanes Harvey or Irma. On the contrary, flooding even occurs on sunny, relatively calm days. It causes damage to houses and roads and disrupts traffic, yet does not cost any people their lives. It is thus also known as ‘ nuisance flooding ’. And this ...