Last weeks weather was quintessential Spring weather – that is one day cold and one day hot. This is the kind of weather that often is accompanied by severe weather such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail, and straight line winds. The National Weather Service through it’s Weather Ready Nation Ambassadors is calling for a discussion on what is your safe place from extreme weather. To promote the discussion nationwide they are asking people to take a Safe Place Selfie and post it on April 3rd to the 6th, 2017. If you are uncertain what to do and what is a safe place take a few minutes and visit “Be Prepared” link on the top of this page or lower right side or if you reading this in an email visit the North Wildwood Ready website by clicking on this link. On the Ready website click on the “Be Prepared” button for links to all sorts of preparedness information. The attached photo has more information on the #SafePlaceSelfie
For those that utilize Facebook the Office of Emergency Management has a presence on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NWEmergencyManagement/ Most of the time we are able to mirror the page on the Ready Website and the Facebook page but occasionally during the height of the storm we can update Facebook quicker from a smart phone. Nonetheless neither this page on the Ready website or the Facebook page are to be considered to replace the National Weather Service warnings, Code Red warnings and the emergency warning siren alerts. Social media and websites have a place and it is to provide supplemental information before and after an alert is sent out.