Severe Weather Safety Awareness Week - Flash Flooding

Description: Severe Weather Awareness Week - Flash Flooding...

Severe Weather Safety Awareness Week

Flash flooding refers to a dangerous sudden rise in water along a creek, river, or a normal dry land area. Flash floods result from heavy rainfall, sudden breaks in river ice jams, and dam or levee failures. Flash floods can occur within a few minutes or hours...and can move at surprisingly high speeds, striking with little warning.

Flash floods are quite destructive because of the force of the moving water, and the debris that accumulates in flood waters, such as trees and boulders, which can destroy roadways, bridges, and buildings.

Nearly half of all flash flood fatalities are vehicle related.  Do not enter a flooded roadway, instead Turn Around Don't Drown.

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