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With Spring finally here, flooding has become a major concern for some areas.  There's been a lot of interest lately about the National Flood Insurance Program and the Reform after 2012.  We want to provide you with some good information to help you prepare for what mother nature could throw your way. The Big Bags USA team is all about preparation, so knowing what flood insurance protection you have is very important. What is the National Flood Insurance Program?  In 1968, Congress created the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to help provide a means for property owners to financially protect themselves. The NFIP offers flood insurance to homeowners, renters, and business owners if their community participates in the NFIP. Participating communities agree to adopt and enforce ordinances that meet or exceed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requirements to reduce the risk of flooding.  Since standard homeowners insurance doesn't cover flo...

With the first day of spring upon us, the Big Bags USA team wants to pass along some Spring flooding forecast news.  Overall, the flood potential in the Midwest will be Moderate with an elevated risk of ice jams.  There may be some minor flooding in the Northeast and Southeast National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Forecast NOAA 2014 U.S. Spring Flood Risk According to NOAA’s Spring Outlook released today, rivers in half of the continental United States are at minor or moderate risk of exceeding flood levels this spring with the highest threat in the southern Great Lakes region due to above-average snowpack and a deep layer of frozen ground. Additionally, drought is expected to continue in California and the Southwest.  The continuation of winter weather, above-average snowpack, frozen ground and thick ice coverage on streams and rivers will delay spring flooding into April in the upper Midwest eastward to New England. The intens...

BE READY! With the Spring flooding season rapidly approaching, we want to continue to provide some helpful information to help protect your property, business, or family.  The Big Bags USA team found a great resource at the Iowa Water Conference - Iowa Flood Response Toolkit.  Here is a link to the full kit - http://www.iowafloods.org .  See below for some content available in the Toolkit! Iowa flooding in 2008   Flood Response Stages  Being prepared for a flood starts with planning.  The ongoing process of flood mitigation begins with the pre-flood activities of recognizing flood hazards. Once they are determined, training and public outreach aids in the planning for flood events.  At the flood watch stage, an initial public notice should go out and community checks for readiness should occur.Once a flood warning is declared, there is a greater level of urgency.  More critical decisions must be made, such as the ...

The Big Bags USA team is very excited with it's latest project...helping the residents of West Seneca, NY prepare for possible future flooding.  West Seneca, NY is a suburb of Buffalo and they have been hard hit by earlier flooding.  This western NY community has decided that flood preparation is better than mitigation, and they have called in Big Bags USA to help! See the latest News coverage below! West Seneca Prepares to Bolster Berm Concerns about floodwaters in West Seneca are rising after the devastating flash flooding earlier this winter.  A big project to protect the residents is underway.  Trucks and Labor changed the look behind the homes along Lexington Green and a road was built to access the berm.  On Wednesday, these crews filled some 3,000 three-foot square bags brought by Missouri company Big Bags USA with sand to form a barrier. The barrier will continue the existing berm in the hopes of preventing floodwaters from hitting the sa...

March 3-4, 2014 - Iowa State Center | Ames, Iowa The Big Bags USA team will be attending this important event to showcase our temporary flood barrier system.  The Iowa Water Conference is an annual gathering of water professionals, researchers, educators and students from across Iowa and surrounding states. The current conference structure was created to bring together the various professional conferences that were already occurring independently of each other. By bringing all of these conferences under one roof, we can encourage collaboration between disciplines, share resources and costs, and unite our efforts for clean, abundant Iowa water.  The theme of this conference is "Making Connections - Solving Problems" Come see our Big Bags USA systems We are what people choose when they need simple, easily deploy-able flood protection. 6mm thick polypropylene , made with the highest UV resistant polymers available to increase longevity in sunlight. Used ...