good luck all
I go thru floods all the time and thought I’d throw in what works for me,
I can’t help you with the wind and I know that’s the worst, but if you live in an area that is likely to get too much water too quickly, I’d suggest you’re getting some rolls of plastic or even just large trash bags will do; and keep them ready by all the doorways and areas of your house that water might try to creep thru to enter.
It is my experience that if you can keep out the initial push that it doesn’t take too long for the water to recede to the point you won’t need the plastic any longer.
every moment you can stay dry counts. I’m only 50ft from the largest river in our area, so I know what I am talking about.
also, if you’ve done all you can do and are looking for something else; if you have an area around your house that likely is going ot be the direction from which your first worries will be about flooding, (for instance say you have a patio porch) its not too late to make some sandbags (they don’t have to be sand but it helps)out of your trash bags and make a little wall across the end of the porch and it will keep the water at bay there rather than to let it run up to your doorway entrance.
also a good idea to put sand bags around the outside of your windowwells with ideally some plastic in between the sandbags and the window-well to ensure water-tightness.
also say you’re on the downside of a street that if you get a lot of rain in a short amount of time; will likely spill over onto your property instead of running down the gutter like its suppose to: it is well worth your time to line that part of the curb with some sort of sandbag or even some 2x4s (better anchor well or they’ll end up in your living room because of the wind) to keep the water traveling on down the street towards anyplace else;
because all this stuff that seems so unecessary will (sadly) make its use very apparent if things come to that point: and more sadly will you likely see a few minutes (to at most hours) later that they were the very difference in whether your inside of your house was flooded: or not. because it happens that quicky and the worst of it all recedes just has fast. So what might look like it won’t hold up, ie a flimsy line of sandbags, often will be enough because the worst of the flooding, the part that you are trying to protect, often will not need steel doors to keep it dry. the home has already been built to be the first thing on the property to stay dry, so all it takes is a little bit of help to keep it that way.
I speak all from experience .