Your scariest visitors tonight might be Samara from the Ring, Ghostface from Scream or The Black Phone’s Grabber, but the weeks and months ahead could bring far scarier prospects to your door – from a “surprise hurricane” to a wildfire, earthquake or other disaster – with potentially life-changing impacts to your home and life. I hope the length of this article doesn’t scare you off! Feel free to skip to the relevant sections for your home or read the whole thing after the kids’ buckets and bellies are filled.
We can plan for Halloween “frights” with candy bowls and for hurricane season with some planning to reduce damage. Those of us living near fault lines can hope that our homes built to West Coast earthquake codes will fare better than those that skirted them in Turkey’s devastating quake last February. We hope too that a wildfire won’t sweep through our neighborhood, as it has in so many others, and wait for potential new standards to address this growing risk. They might not be enough!
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