"Now getting back to how to track and make sure your community IS ready.
Volunteer! Weather spotters, Community Emergency Response Teams (the new Civil Defense) this is how you can make sure your community is ready.

I am pleased that our county emergency management believes in actually being ready.
We now have shelter materials, working LARGE generators, fuel, flood lights, communications, etc. all because we have volunteers. So taking a snippet from a well known speech...
Ask not what your country can do for you... ask what you can do for your country,
be active in your local government, otherwise it won't be active for you.
I appreciate our neighbors and being part of something that can help in a time of crisis such as icestorms, blizzards, floods, etc... It's good to be prepared, take advantage of it!
So get started, and don't forget -prepare at home first - can't help if you're not ready.

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"Sorry I havn't been around for a while, other issues came up. But i wanted to tell you about a short article in the Jan/Feb 08 issue of History Channel magazine. p.52 "Fallout Shelters Revisited"
the art. talke about Huntsville Alabama reooling an abandoned mine into a massive shelter, as wel as other community shelter plans on the boards. The info is pretty straight forward, with the exception that survivors are instructed to bring their own supplies.
You should be able to read this on the historychannel site."