The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing free advice on how to repair or rebuild your Hurricane Sandy-damaged home at several home improvement stores throughout the area.
With an eye on rebuilding to mitigate future disaster damage, FEMA experts will be on hand to offer building techniques that can help protect homes, businesses and other properties.
Among the topics advice is being offered on are:
• Ridding a home of mold and mildew.
• Understanding flood- and wind-resistant building methods.
• Knowing the benefits of flood insurance.
• Elevating or anchoring utilities.
Sepecialists are on hand today, Thursday, and Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the following locations:
• Atlantic County—Home Depot, 421 Absecon Blvd., Absecon, NJ 08201
• Hudson County—Lowe’s, 400 Bayonne Crossing Way, Bayonne, NJ 07002
• Monmouth County—Lowe’s, 118 Highway 35, Eatontown, NJ 07724
• Monmouth County—Home Depot, 310 Highway 36, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
• Middlesex County—Home Depot, 373 Route 9, Woodbridge, NJ 07095
• Middlesex County—Home Depot, 1090 Route 9, Old Bridge, NJ 08857
• Union County—Home Depot, 399-443 Springfield Ave., Newark, NJ 07103
For additional information on rebuilding stronger, visit fema.gov/SandyNJ and click on “Mitigation Resources.”
plenty of money to p*ss away on these employees.
We'll get FEMA to realize the collateral damage it's causing. Come to a meeting Sat. Feb. 23rd, 3-4PM, at 708 Fischer Blvd. (Belly Busters Restaurant), Toms River. Bring your ideas and bring your neighbors. Save the Shore!
The rebuilding effort that started out so strong has run into a wall of flood insurance secrecy. The ABFE elevations are probably too high, the V zones are probably too big and the "actuarial" rates FEMA intends to set are probably too high also, but we need our elected officials to get FEMA to correct these larger issues. It is not too much to ask, however, for individual FEMA staffers sent to events like this to be able to tell people what their premiums would be for their type of construction if the ABFE maps do not change. Without this information, which is known to FEMA (they set the rates!), people do not have the information they need to make informed building decisions.
Store name is: llewellynh and also try Bargengat.
$100,000 to raise a house or $30,000 per year for insurance premiums (designed to support the FEMA bureaucracy that went into debt after Katrina). FEMA thinks it can get unlimited money from NJ people. Whole neighborhoods will be abandoned! The rest of each town's taxpayers will have to make up for the lost ratables. They'll lose their shirts, too.
Excuse the misspelling shown above but go to zazzle and use their search engine for tee shirts. Barnegat and Bays are Not Oceans and NJ shore and "Middle Class" are words or phrases that will get you to the store: llewellynh that has them all. Every penny is going to those of our neighbors who are most in need at the moment.
fema will NOT cover even blue book value on my truck ( which is only worth maybe 4,000) because my wife had a car that we evacuated in & was not flooded ... To answer the questions that will come YES we have insurance on both of the cars but because of the age we have minl. coverage, ( about 1300 a yr ) We OWN our cars so no need to addl. insurance. The Kicker is If FEMA would help me I could help some many people & would be more then happy to because of the skills I have....