The National Weather Service has declared March 19 through 23 Flood Safety Awareness Week. The NWS Forecast Office in Caribou will issue a Public Information Statement featuring a different educational topic each day during the week.

All five topics appear on this page. The topics are listed in the Table of Contents that follows..

The master web site for the whole program is NWS' Flood Safety page. Very detailed info can be found there that will not appear in the summaries we publish below.

• Monday — Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service, AHPS for Short
• Tuesday— Turn Around, Don't Drown! TADD for Short
• Wednesday— Flooding and Related Phenomena
• Thursday— Flood Insurance
• Friday— Flood Safety

• NWS Flood Safety
• NWS Rivers
• American Red Cross Flood and Flash Flood
• WFO Caribou AHPS
• National Flood Insurance Program
• NWS Turn Around, Don't Drown!
• National Hydrologic Warning Council
• Association of State Floodplain Managers

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