Disaster Safety Blog

What are you doing to reduce losses as disasters increase?

With tornadoes last week in the Midwest and fires in Arizona this week, 2010 is shaping up to be a busy year disaster wise for insurers, with one incident already getting a catastrophe designation, according to National Underwriter.

The Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is the insurance resource for reducing property damage related to disasters. IBHS member insurers can co-brand any of the materials featured on www.DisasterSafety.org; giving agents a value-added product and customers a scientifically sound resource for real-world solutions to better protect their homes and businesses.

Not a member? Contact IBHS Member Relations Manager Joy Whaley to find out how to put IBHS resources to work for your company. 

VORTEX 2 crew describes tornado in Oklahoma

We have reported on this blog about the VORTEX 2 tornado tracking project made up of teams of weather researchers, including Tanya Brown, who will join the IBHS engineering team in August.

The VORTEX 2 crew witnessed yesterday's tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. Check out this video from The Weather Channel, where meteorologist Mike Bettes and Dr. Greg Forbes of The Weather Channel report from Vortex 2 to describe what they saw of a tornado that touched down in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Find out more about how to better protect your property against tornadoes with information from IBHS. Residents recovering from the latest round of tornadoes can learn how securing the roof-to-wall connections in their home or business when reroofing can reduce the risk of future tornado damage.