- Learn flood warning signs and to recognize your community alert signals.
- If you live in a frequently flooded area, stockpile emergency building materials.
- Have check valves installed in building sewer traps to prevent flood waters from backing up in sewer drains.
- Plan and practice an evacuation route.
- Develop an emergency communication plan between family members:
- Choose an out-of-state friend or relative as a contact person in the event your family is separated and commit that person's phone number to memory.
- Choose a meeting place away from your neighborhood in case you cannot return home.
- Check to see if you have insurance that covers flooding.
- Keep insurance policies, documents and other valuables in a safe-deposit box.
- Assemble a Disaster Supplies Kit.
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