Butch Kinerney, Chief of Marketing & Outreach for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) talks all about the critical importance of flood insurance. Additionally Butch discusses how flood insurance responds to storms, how it helps communities recover, where to buy it and ends by debunking some common flood insurance myths.
Joy Duperault, State NFIP Coordinator & Deputy Hazard Mitigation Officer discusses ways to find and assess your flood risk. With a plethora of flood data from federal and private sources, it can be difficult to truly gauge your flood risk. Joy helps guide us to resources for us to make educated decisions, and make sense of the various resources available to business and homeowners when purchasing, or making future decisions.
Protecting your family, home or business from damage caused by flooding is essential. Resources available from the Town of Nantucket and its state and federal partners can help you with that task as a property or business owner. Understanding the unique needs of adapting properties in a National Historic Landmark community takes people with specialized knowledge. The Town of Nantucket is pleased to have such expertise available for our community members through an Action Grant obtained from the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program. On September 18th at 11:30 am and again at 6:00 pm, you can meet these adaptation professionals and learn how to better prepare your historic property for a future of rising seas. The Town of Nantucket will host two online community forums for property owners, business owners, residents, real estate, insurance, Town staff and design professionals interested in learning more about programs available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the State of Massachusetts and the private sector in support of disaster preparedness, adaptation planning and community resilience.
Click on the links below to helpful resources about flooding.
Click on the links below to download helpful resources to keep you aware of flooding.
Thank you to those promoting, hosting events, and being a part of Flood Awareness Month 2020 in Massachusetts.
info@floodawareness.org