If your property is susceptible to flooding, there are many flood damage reduction measures you can employ:

• Watertight seals can be applied to brick and block walls to protect against low-level flooding
    
• Utilities such as heating and air conditioning systems, water heaters, and other major appliances can be elevated to higher floors in the structure or on raised platforms
    
• Temporary measures such as moving furniture and other valuables to higher floors or sandbagging exterior openings will also help
    
• Elevating or relocating the entire structure may also be a feasible option

The City's sandbagging plan is designed to keep critical roads, buildings, and services protected, not to protect every house in the City that might receive flooding.