{"id":1049,"date":"2013-06-26T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2013-06-26T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:19:24","slug":"fema-best-practice-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/fema-best-practice-story\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Best Practice: No Damage Thanks to Flood Vents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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FEMA Best Practice Story Reveals No Flood Damage for<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Homes Due To Flood Vents During Hurricane Sandy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[This story originated with SMART VENTS<\/a> which are pictured in the story and featured in the home]<\/p>\n

This recent FEMA Best Practice Story discusses how, for homeowner Bernard Bertino and builder Ray Guzman, building to Sea Bright’s elevated code standards saved their adjoining townhouses<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> from the massive flooding. “We originally wanted to add one foot of freeboard, but the town made us add two feet,” Guzman’s architect Paul Damiano stated. Freeboard<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> is an increase in the elevation of a structure above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE). The vents allowed floodwaters to flow easily through the structure by equalizing the build up of pressure from the force of water throughout the flood.<\/p>\n

Surrounding neighborhood homes without compliant flood vents were not so fortunate. “If you look across the street, those garage doors were devastated,” Guzman said. “If we didn’t have those flood vents, the homes would not have been able to take the pressure from the water. They really saved us. We’re like a rose in the middle of a disaster.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This recent FEMA Best Practice Story discusses how building to Sea Bright’s elevated code standards saved their adjoining townhomes from the massive flooding. The vents allowed floodwaters to flow easily through the structure by equalizing the build up of pressure from the force of water throughout the flood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[127,67,142],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-history","category-surveying","tag-fema","tag-politics","tag-surveying","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":1049,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? He was beckoned irresistibly by the sea with all of its hidden treasures. Surveying has wooed surveyors for centuries. We surveyors are also explorers, discoverers and pioneers.","rel":"","context":"In "History\/Politics"","block_context":{"text":"History\/Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Columbus seduced by the sea.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/columbus-thinking-117x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}