It is severe weather preparedness week and in addition to getting prepared for storms and tornadoes, you also need to educate yourself on safety in a flood.
Floods don’t just happen around rivers, flash flooding can occur anywhere after a heavy rain.
We know some feel like it’s repeated too often, however, you are never to drive through a flooded roadway. In recent years there’ve been several deaths in southern Indiana due to people believing that they can make it across a flooded road.
Daviess County Emergeny Management Director Paul Goss says it’s just not worth the risk….
Emergency agencies and broadcasters will conduct two statewide tests of severe weather emergency equipment tomorrow at 10:30 and 7:35-pm. It’s a good time to prepare by acting as you would in an actual emergency