Hint: Don't fret if your emergency management agency isn't using social media as one of their ways to communicate to the public, consider other ways you can obtain key information from them in times of crisis.
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13 comments:
CRESA, I currently receive emergency notifications via email from CRESA.
I see CRESA Alerts on Facebook, Twitter and I subscribe by email to the blog.
CRESA, and I receive emails and notifications on facebook as well...
Washington County Office of Consolidated Emergency Management - http://www.ocem.org/.
CRESA is my local agency, but since power and Internet connections are likely to go down in any kind of serious natural disaster, I'd probably expect to get information via either my ham HT, CB channel 9, or by monitoring GMRS and FRS frequencies if the Internet were not an option.
Being a member of Washington County ARES, I can listen in and keep track of what is currently happening with my amateur radio.
CRESA is my local agency. I currently receive email updates from the Flash Alert news wire in email, updates from multiple agencies via Twitter, and CRESA and Flash Alert updates to my cell phone. Of course, this is a technological tether and bound to fail, as mentioned in another response, if a disaster does occur.
I receive alerts from CRESA through email
CRESA and email.
I also have a NOAA radio.
CRESA. I receive cellular text messages and emails.
King County OEM and Seattle OEM. Through the Comms Center. But if I didn't work in OEM, it would be through my various Twitter feeds from OEMs, Media outlets, and friends.
CRESA is my local agency and I receive email notifications and text messages on my cell phone from them. I also have a NOAA weather radio.
Pierce County Emergency Management is the agency responsible for my area. I have signed up for their text alerts, as well as their Tweets about river status.
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