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What to do, to
prepare the landscape for a Hurricane?
Even though some coastal states have adopted building codes to help build
roofs and walls that withstand high winds and rising waters, the codes
exclude landscape features that are found around homes, businesses and
industry. Site amenities such as landscape plantings, pavilions,
fences, pools, walls, landscape lighting and gazebos are often designed
without high winds in mind.
No hurricane landscape codes exist, and further there is practically no
research data available to help landscape architects, architects and
engineers design hurricane resistant landscapes. Little is taught at
American Universities about this subject other than at LSU.
To try to provide answers to these questions and to generate some useful
information about vagabond tropical storms, a research project funded by
the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry was undertaken by the
School of Landscape Architecture following the roaring visit Hurricane
Andrew.
Several recommendations result from the study conducted by Principal
Investigator Prof. Buck Abbey ASLA. The study set forth ideas for
pre-storm and post-storm activities that will help homes and business
prepare for moderate hurricane force winds. The information
was published by Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Urban
Forestry Program in an award winning document titled Hurricane Resistant
Landscapes.
The School of Landscape Architecture continues to do research to help
Louisiana citizens protect there property from hurricane force winds.
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