Tips to Prepare Your Home for Hurricane Winds

On today's episode of DesignSafe Radio, we speak with Erik Salna, associate director of the International Hurricane Research Center at the Florida International University. Salna explains tips on how to mitigate your home from future hurricane damage. A link on this topic has been provided below. Salna also announces exciting news for the NHERI Wall of Wind at FIU and how it will be utilized in future research projects. 

The Wall of Wind can replicate hurricane winds as high as 157 mph and can spray water to imitate hurricane rainfall.  Which means wind researchers can perform tests on structures with Category 5 hurricane wind speeds. 

**Check out the full episode with Erik Salna when it is released on April 6, 2021.**

Preparing for a hurricane:

https://dem.fiu.edu/emergencies/hurricanes/before/

Check out this article on How Disaster-proofing your home can lower insurance costs :

https://grow.acorns.com/disaster-proof-your-home/

Articles on Erik Salna & his research: 

https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/february/salna-inducted-meteorologist-hall-fame/

https://mods.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BIO_SALNA_12-17-20.pdf

NHERI Wall of Wind at Florida International University:

https://fiu.designsafe-ci.org/

Inside Look at the Wall of Wind: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/december/fiu-wall-wind-featured-news/

See the WOW in action: https://newsarchives.fiu.edu/2016/07/imax-films-hurricane-force-winds-at-wall-of-wind

Wall of Wind Informational Booklet PDF: https://fiu.designsafe-ci.org/media/cms_page_media/359/NHERI%20WOW%20EF%20Informational%20Booklet.pdf

Social Media Accounts for FIU Extreme Events Institute:

Twitter handle- @FIUExtremeEvent 

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/FIUExtremeEventsInstitute/

FIU Extreme Events Institute Website & Equation Link :

https://eei.fiu.edu/

https://eei.fiu.edu/equation/the-equation/

FIU International Hurricane Research Center:

http://www.ihrc.fiu.edu/