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This factsheet offers instructions for cleaning and sanitizing kitchen dishes, utensils, and cooking implements after a flood.
In preparation for an emergency, keep the following food items that do not need refrigeration on hand or in an evacuation kit.
This publication covers items to consider when trying to salvage flood-damaged appliances.
This publication covers important information about cleaning household textiles after a flood.
This publication offers information and guidance on how to clean and recondition tractors that have been submerged in floodwaters.
This publication offers guidelines if a recent storm results in water damage to pesticide containers or application equipment in your home or on your property.
This publication discusses how to possibly restore furniture, including antiques, damaged by floodwaters.
This publication covers the supplies you will need for a lengthy stay in a shelter during an emergency or disaster.
This publication offers tips to people returning to their homes and communities after evacuation during an emergency or disaster.
This factsheet offers instruction on what to do with your well after a flood.
This publication covers steps to take to clean up your kitchen after a disaster or emergency.
This publication covers potential moisture problems in attics, crawl spaces and walls after a flood or other disaster.
This publication covers the supplies needed for an evacuation due to an emergency or disaster, as well as a checklist of things to do before leaving your house.
Immediately after a flood, most farmers, nursery crops producers and grounds maintenance staff have much more urgent matters to worry about than weeds. But, eventually the questions arise: Has my preemergence herbicide washed away? How do I know? Should I re-treat? What’s going to happen now? Unfortunately there is no way to provide definitive answers to these questions. But this publication offers some tips and suggestions that will help you plan a response.
This publication is a compilation of ideas from a few specialists based on research, reports in the landscape, experience, and intuition on how to manage storm and disaster damage in landscapes and nurseries.
This publication for farmers covers the guidelines to deal with pesticide storage facilities that may have been damaged by a flood or other disaster.
This publication provides a set of budget tools for the ten most promising nature-based solutions for flood reduction in Eastern North Carolina, which include common farm practices of no-till, cover crops, and tree planting to more complex NBS of wetland creation, water farming, and low-rise earthen berms and retention basins with flashboard risers. These budget tools are the result of research termed “FloodWise” to describe the water quality, flood mitigation, farm benefits, and community engagement and governance connections.
Many people assume that floods, storms, hurricanes and other disasters happen to someone else, and many people postpone taking care of family papers. This factsheet helps you to determine what papers you should worry about protecting.
If you stay at your house during an emergency or disaster, take the following actions to ensure you are well prepared.
Don’t be reluctant to talk with your family about the possibility of a hurricane, fire, tornado, or flood. Thought and action before the disaster hits usually helps family members react wisely. Families that work together to prepare for the problem will cope better than those who do not take precautions.
Both before and in the aftermath of a disaster, every household item prone to movement, falling, breakage, or fire poses a potential hazard. To mitigate the risk of danger, it is advisable to conduct a thorough inspection of your home promptly, identifying and rectifying any potential hazards.
Making arrangements for your pets should be part of your household disaster planning. If you must evacuate your home, it’s always wise to take your pets with you. Although trained service dogs are allowed in emergency shelters, other pets are not allowed due to public health and safety reasons. You need to have other plans for your pets. Advance planning is essential; it could save a pet’s life.
This factsheet addresses the question of whether or not it is possible to salvage crops from flooded fields.
This factsheet offers information on how to deal with food that may have come into contact with floodwaters.
This publication offers a list of steps to take for cleanup and repair of your home following a disaster or emergency.
This publication offers general information and guidance on how to recondition farm equipment that has been submerged in floodwaters.
Durante e inmediatamente después de un desastre, cualquier artículo de la casa que puede moverse, caerse, romperse, o causar un incendio y volverse peligroso. Para reducir la posibilidad de peligro, inspeccione su hogar para encontrar y corregir peligros potenciales.
