Residents in Felton received a notice on Wednesday night to attempt to find higher ground due to potential flooding and dangerous conditions.READ MORE |Felton

Residents are still reckoning with the damage inflicted by seven federally declared major disasters over the past two years.

EDT on Friday, the National Weather Service issued a flood advisory in effect until 10 p.m. EDT for Genesee and Lapeer counties.

Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it’s too late the best bet is to find higher ground nearby. The stakes can be high, because a flash flood may give those in its path only minutes or seconds to react.

Residents in a York County community are being asked to move to higher ground as storms move through the area and streams and creeks rise. North Hopewell Township Police is asking residents of Felton Borough to move to higher ground.

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Residents of Felton Borough were urged to move to higher ground Wednesday evening due to flooding. Around 9:30 p.m., the North Hopewell Township Police Department alerted residents via Facebook that flooded streams and creeks had created unsafe conditions in the area.

The North Hopewell Township Police Department said on Facebook that recent storms have flooded roadways and bridges, and local streams and creeks are rising.

The village of Ruidoso was under a flash flood emergency as slow moving storms left people trapped in homes and prompted multiple water rescues.