question regarding wild fire evacuation

[schufflerbot]

how does one add their phone to the list of 'need to be contacted in case of an evacuation' list?

fires have broken out within the 20 mile mark of my house and i want to make sure we have a heads up in case we need to evacuate.

[seamusTX]

Your city or county web sites should have instructions for that.

If it is not obvious there, perform a search for your county plus "emergency notification."

Around here they got it from water bills or something, years ago. I don't remember the details.

Also you could call 211. I have never used them, but they can refer people for all kinds of services. You already paid for the call.

- Jim

[schufflerbot]

awesome, thanks dude

[schufflerbot]

Harris County is not a member of the CodeRed Web emergency alert system.. but there are options.

Not sure exactly where you are.. but Harris County web site: http://www.hctx.net/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; on the right side, they have "subscribe to alerts" with several types of "alerts" listed.



another option by email, cell phone is http://www.emergencyemail.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This is a free service.. they send you a daily weather alert, and if anything is in your area that you chose by zip code, they will send and additional alert.

thanks, manny!

[seamusTX]

Those early notification services should work for something that arrives with a lot of warning, like a hurricane. Wildfires, maybe. Earthquakes (not that we have a history of that on the coast) or other sudden events, obviously not.

Don't depend upon anything working in a real emergency except old-fashioned broadcast radio.

I know whereof I speak in this regard. We had about three weeks of no electricity, no land-line phones, no internet, and intermittent cell phone service after Ike. Text messages came through when voice service didn't work on the cell phones.

BTW, you will never say you had too many batteries. Generators and solar cells are good for some purposes, but battery-powered appliances are portable, silent, and work at night.

- Jim

[RPB]

Reverse 911 in Burnet County for cell phones you sign up at Sheriff's office, in Pflugerville on a website

Here's a search for +Texas "Reverse 911"
http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+ ... 24&bih=610" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

+"Harris County" "Reverse 911"
http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+ ... 24&bih=610" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Harris county weather reverse 911 http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2005/te ... _87656.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This Pilot Project is designed to set up communications links between the Houston WFO and the Harris County Intellicast Notification System. From this effort, FSL and NWS will examine how reverse 911 technology can be used by local WFOs for dissemination of severe weather warnings.

Etc Some old info there, but maybe it'll get you pointed in the right direction