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In the city, your clients are flooded with choices

Help your clients make the one clear choice that will give them peace of mind and protect their city life from hidden flood risks lurking around every corner.

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Empower Your Clients

Help residents across towns, cities and suburbs understand their risks and how flood insurance protects them, even if they are not in a low-risk area.

The first step to protect their homes and belongings is to know their risk so they can make informed decisions. Then you can encourage them to get a policy specific to protect their property and belongings. You can also encourage your clients to store important documents, elevate and anchor utilities and toss out debris to mitigate flood damage.

The second step is to purchase flood insurance. Help your community understand why buying or renewing flood insurance can help protect the lives they've built here.

Use the resources below to:

Take action: Get the word out

Join the campaign by sharing on social media and sending emails to customers and clients. Use the links to post or copy campaign text and download campaign material to share.

In a flash: Protecting your life from unexpected flooding

See just how quickly a few inches of rain can turn into a flash flood. Help your clients understand the risks of flooding in their area, even when there are just a few inches of rain.

Help them make the right choice

Provide your clients with key information about their metropolitan flooding risk.

  1. Towns, suburbs, and cities have more development, more concrete, and fewer places for water to go; a hard rain can become a flash flood in minutes.

  2. Rising sea levels and temperature changes mean stronger and more damaging storms, which are increasing flood risk in metropolitan areas.

  3. Most homeowners and renters insurance policies do not cover flood damage. 

  4. There is typically a 30-day waiting period between submitting the flood insurance policy application and the effective date. If you wait until severe weather arrives, it is likely already too late.

  5. Flood insurance policies don't automatically renew.

Stay up to date on flood insurance.

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