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Safety Tips for Flooding Areas

• Stay alert to signs of developing weather that might produce flooding. Listen for storm watches and warnings over, radio, television or NOAA All Alert Weather Radios.
• Be prepared to evacuate your home and move to higher ground should flooding develop near your home.
• Know if your home is located in a a flood-prone area. If so, have an emergency evacuation plan in advance.
• Never drive across flooded bridges or low areas.
• Don't try to cross a flowing stream on foot where water is above your knees.
• Never drive across flooded bridges or low areas.
• if driving, be aware that the road bed may not be intact under flood waters. Turn around and go another way.
• Never camp out in or near a stream bed. pitch your camp on high ground.
• If your vehicle stalls in water, abandon it immediately and get to higher ground.
  Rapidly rising water may engulf the vehicle and its occupants and sweep them away. Remember, its better to be wet than dead!
• Be especially cautious at night when it is even harder to recognize flood dangers.
• Never allow children to swim or play in flood waters or rapidly flowing streams. Avoid the banks of flooding streams. These may be softened by the water and collapse with out warning.
• Watch the roads for flooding at dips, bridges and low areas. if you see flooding, act quickly to save yourself. if in a ravine, climb straight up the sides. Don't try to outrun a flash flood. you cannot do it.

Flash Floods

Flood Safety

Before the Flood

After the Flood