An archive of the "Tip of the Week" e-mails sent by the New York City Office of Emergency Management (NYC OEM)
Monday, April 29, 2013
Don't Get Washed Away in a Flash Flood
During Severe Weather Awareness Week, OEM encourages you to take some time to learn about flash flood hazards and what you can do to stay safe. Slow-moving thunderstorms and heavy rains are enough to produce flash flooding in streets, which can create dangerous situations for both pedestrians and drivers. Six inches of water is more than enough to knock you off your feet or cause a loss of vehicular control. Avoid walking through moving water, do not drive into flooded areas, and stay out of any building if it is surrounded by floodwaters. Learn more about flash floods Read OEM's Tip of the Week online
This blog and its author are in no (formal) way connected with the New York City Office of Emergency Management. The content has been pasted from the OEM "Tip of the Week" that can be subscribed to via the page http://www.nyc.gov/oemnews.
(This blog was created as an easy way for me to generate an RSS feed with the history of the tips, since I didn't see that anywhere on NYC.gov.)
September 2009 to June 2012, then occasionally: Also included FEMA "Tip of the Week" messages as they came through. I am not connected to FEMA or DHS in any way, either.
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