It includes much information about the NFIP and other flood disaster assistance available from the federal government and access to the newly revised NFIP booklet Answers to Questions about the National Flood Insurance Program . Other background information is available there, as well. The complete manual is also available on-line at the third Web site listed above. It covers everything that homeowners, business owners, lenders, insurers, planners, engineers, surveyors, floodplain managers, and community officials need to know about the NFIP floodplain mapping program and offers on-line hazard maps and tutorials. Flood Map Store.
Customers can use a catalog, map search, or quick order facility to order products.
This new MSC site is just one of a suite of on-line services planned to expedite the dissemination of FEMA's flood map and insurance products. According to Perry, during the 20th century, floods were the number one disaster in the United States, both in terms of lives lost and property damage. The fact sheet names the flood brought on by the September 1900 Galveston Hurricane as the worst of the century. Besides examining these disasters, this Web site also describes the survey's efforts to measure floods and lists additional sources of flood information on the Internet. From the USGS real-time streamflow page interested persons can monitor stream levels around the nation and watch as floods evolve.