Rain showers might be dandy for your garden but not for your basement. Wet basement problems may be solved simply by repairing an obvious gutter or downspout leak, but other water problems may have causes that are difficult to identify or expensive to fix. The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety offers three steps [...]

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Hurricane Katrina was a powerful storm that packed some memorable lessons – even now, five years later. The wind and water damage hit the Gulf Coast the hardest when the hurricane made landfall in August 2005, but the storm’s remnants were felt as far north as the Great Lakes region. The total losses from Hurricane [...]

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