How To Protect Against Flash Flooding
In an effort to better protect residents, many city and local governments have created flood warning systems to alert people whenever a flood is likely to occur. These systems alert people via push notifications and can be very useful in hastily floodproofing properties and potentially saving lives.
However, these systems are often not enough to prevent floods from catching communities and properties by surprise. Many are still early in development and, like all weather instruments, cannot be relied upon to be 100% accurate.
The problem is that not all flood events happen during large hurricanes that give days notice ahead of time. Flash flooding occurs alarmingly quick and without enough advanced warning for these flood warning systems to work effectively. Because of this, having flash flood protection in place is imperative to truly floodproofing valuable assets and properties.
What Causes Flash Flooding?
Flash flooding is caused by a combination of rainfall intensity and duration. Depending on how flood-prone an area is and the intensity of sudden rainfall, flash flooding can happen within a few minutes.
This makes flash flooding extremely dangerous. The short preparation window presented by flash flooding makes on-demand floodproofing near impossible, especially for large commercial properties, which often have numerous vulnerable pedestrian and vehicular entryways. Many properties flood because they rely on last-minute protection measures that are unable to be deployed correctly in time to prevent devastation.
So, what can be done to protect against this type of risk?
Passive Flood Barriers Protect Against Flash Floods
The unpredictability of flash flooding makes preparing for it an arduous task.
Relying on temporary flood protection measures will always put you at greater risk of suffering flood devastation. It’s simply not practical to deploy and store flood barriers and sandbags on a daily basis in case a flood happens. The cost of manpower and resources is too high.
The solution to protecting against flash flooding is permanent, passive flood barriers that deploy without people or power.
FloodBreak’s passive flood barrier systems provide permanent, 24/7 flood protection to hundreds of residential & commercial properties around the world. These flip-up flood barriers provide peace of mind to our customers that their important assets are protected from the potential devastation of a flash flood. There are no size limitations to our passive barriers – they are custom fabricated to fit any vulnerable openings.
The two biggest benefits of our flip-up flood barriers are their passive activation and longevity.
Passive activation means there is no reliance on human intervention or power of any kind for our gates to deploy and protect. The only “power” source for these flip up barriers is the flood water itself. Even remote properties that are difficult to access during a flood are fully protected with our gates. This passivity is the defining feature that makes our barriers effective against flash flooding.
Unlike traditional flood control measures, FloodBreak’s passive flood barriers can protect for decades. The gates are manufactured using materials that are built for harsh outdoor conditions. Vehicles and heavy cargo can be transported across the gates with no impact on their ability to deploy during a flood. The flood barriers can flip up and protect over & over again as long as flooding remains a threat.
While there are other flood protection alternatives, they all require either electricity or human activation.
During a flash flood that happens in minutes, there is no guarantee that on-sight personnel will be able to act swiftly enough to deploy these alternative measures correctly.
Flood inundation can cause millions in property and equipment damages.
It can destroy homes and cripple thriving businesses.
In other words, alternative flood protection measures come with risk.
With FloodBreak, that’s a risk you don’t have to take.
Proven Flood Protection Without Advanced Warning
In over two decades of providing the most advanced form of flood protection available, our passive barriers have dozens of verified saves during flash floods.
During the notorious Hurricane Harvey, our gates deployed all over Houston throughout the storm, protecting critical infrastructure, garages, apartments, and more.
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