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Storm surge flooding can be a hurricane’s most dangerous threat, but shore dwellers often don’t appreciate the risk. Now the government hopes to make those risks more clear.
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Northeast states are still feeling the after-effects of last year’s late-season Hurricane Sandy. But this year’s hurricane season starts next week — and authorities say it could be an active one.
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The next thing from Kwikset: a Bluetooth-powered lockset that lets you unlock your door with a fingertip touch.
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Devastated by a killer tornado two years ago, Joplin, Missouri, is well on the road to recovery.
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Damage from deadly tornadoes could be reduced with simple construction upgrades, experts say.
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In blunt and sometimes profane language, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is promising to build a continuous dune along his state’s entire barrier island beach front.
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Homeowners on Plum Island, Massachusetts, have the state’s okay to move sand around in a last-ditch effort to save their houses from the ocean. For now.
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Lumber interests are pushing to get North Carolina off the LEED bandwagon.
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Federal funds (and sand) are flowing in Delaware, where the Corps of Engineers is ready to put the beaches back the way they were before Sandy — and then some.
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Increased premiums included in last year’s flood insurance reform package are starting to make waves in coastal states.