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Flood evacuation with blocked routes

Rising water and changing road closures test official alert monitoring, an early evacuation decision, route verification, and accountability at a safe destination.

Scenario version 1 · Canonical guide: https://hazardnow.com/tools/emergency-exercise-builder/flood-evacuation-blocked-routes

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Session length
45–60 minutes
Objectives
3
Private workspace
No account or server save

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Intended audience

HouseholdNeighborhoodCERT / volunteer team

What the group practices

Use official flood information

Verify warnings, closures, and protective-action guidance through authoritative sources before sharing or acting on them.

Make a safe evacuation decision

Use clear departure triggers, verified destinations, and routes that do not enter flooded or closed areas.

Maintain accountability

Track participant status, transportation support, and arrival without depending on a single communications method.

Suggested roles

Exercise coordinator

Releases exercise messages manually and keeps exercise play separate from any real incident.

Official-information lead

Practices checking authoritative warnings, road closures, and destination status.

Accountability lead

Tracks check-ins, transportation needs, destinations, and confirmed arrivals.

Five-stage workflow

One exercise, through improvement

  1. 1

    Configure

    Choose objectives, audience, roles, and private facilitator notes.

  2. 2

    Conduct

    Release each checked-in scenario update manually when the group is ready.

  3. 3

    Evaluate

    Record strengths and areas for improvement against the selected objectives.

  4. 4

    Hotwash

    Capture immediate participant, facilitator, and observer feedback.

  5. 5

    Improve

    Assign corrective actions, owners, target dates, and status.

Participant ground rules

  • The facilitator releases every inject manually; participants do not wait for or infer a timed update.
  • Describe all travel and evacuation actions; do not drive, enter floodwater, cross a barricade, or approach a flooded area for exercise play.
  • Use official sources for real warnings and closures, and do not call emergency services, transportation agencies, shelters, or utilities during the exercise.
  • Any real warning or safety concern immediately takes priority and uses normal emergency procedures.

Simulation only

Facilitator injects, controller notes, expected actions, and evaluation criteria stay inside the private workspace. If a real incident interrupts the exercise, stop play, use the Live Dashboard, and follow official instructions.

HSEEP-informed, intentionally simplified

HazardNow provides a compact tabletop workflow for small groups. It is not an official HSEEP package, certification, or replacement for local procedures.

FEMA HSEEP overviewOfficial HSEEP resources
EXERCISE / SIMULATION — NOT A REAL INCIDENT. HazardNow checked-in scenario v1; HSEEP-informed and intentionally simplified. Follow official instructions during a real event.

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