National Flood Safety Awareness week

[Guest dave27]

All,

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National

Weather Service (NWS) is promoting an educational campaign on flood

safety awareness:

http://www.weather.gov/floodsafety

Please join us in spreading the word to the general public so that

everyone will be better prepared for and can more quickly react to Flood

Watches and Warnings that are issued by the NWS.

We will be issuing Public Information Statements daily, which will be

sent on our communication systems such as our Internet Web Page, NOAA

All Hazards Weather Radio, the NOAA Weather Wire Service, and the Family

Of Services. Please feel free to use this "public" information to

promote flood safety awareness during this time.

Local information on National Flood Safety Awareness week can be found at:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/bgm/preparedness/p...ness_main.shtml

Specific statements will focus on different topics each day, such as the

NWS's Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS), our Turn Around

Don't Drown (TADD) Educational Campaign, Tropical Cyclone Inland

Flooding, Snowmelt and Ice Jam Flooding, Flood Insurance, and Flood

Safety Tips.

It seems a bit ironic that we are focusing on flood awareness this week

as I am pretty certain most people in our area are sick of flooding. But

it is a national campaign and we can never educate the public enough about flood safety....

like not driving into flooded roadways or around barricades etc.