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<br />INSTRUCTIONS -T ASKA- WARNING AND EVACUATION <br />(Time to complete the task: 30 minutes) <br /> <br />Purpose <br /> <br />Anticipate the impacts of a 100-year flood on your community and determine <br />appropriate actions to respond to a flood warning. <br /> <br />Materials <br /> <br />· Base map of the community showing parcels, roads, bridges, major facilities, and <br />topography, if available. <br />· The most recent maps issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency <br />(FEMA) for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Most communities have <br />Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM's); however, some communities still use earlier <br />maps called Flood Hazard Boundary Maps (FHBM's). In this exercise, NFIP maps <br />are called FIRM's. <br />. Handout A. Actions to Respond to a Flood Warning <br /> <br />Steps <br /> <br />1. Transfer the boundaries of the 100-year floodplain from your FIRM to the base map <br />using a solid line (yellow). If your FIRM shows the flood way, transfer those <br />boundaries to the base map using a dotted line (yellow). <br /> <br />2. Assume you have just received a warning from the National Weather Service that <br />the stream passing through your community is expected to reach flood stage at 9:30 <br />a.m. List on Handout A the actions you will take to protect people and property. <br /> <br />3. On the base map, outline the road and bridges you will blockade (orange) and the <br />areas you will evacuate, including those that you think will be flooded and those <br />that will lose access (brown). <br /> <br />4. How well prepared are you to respond to a flood warning? Discuss any problems <br />you uncovered in your system for responding to a flood warning, and on Handout 4. <br />Recommended Actions, list actions you can take now to improve the system. <br /> <br />Products <br /> <br />· Base map showing: 1) boundaries of the floodway and l00-year floodplain, 2) roads <br />and bridges closed, and 3) areas evacuated <br />. Completed Handout A. Actions in Response to Flood Warning <br />. Entries on Handout 4. Recommended Actions <br /> <br />Instructions-Task A <br />