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Severe Weather Season - Are you Ready?
The months of March, April, and May are notoriously known as severe weather season across much of our nation, and here in Central Alabama we are
in a geographic region known for strong storms, damaging winds, and tornadoes.
This is the perfect time of the year to check your preparedness plans. Make sure your NOAA weather radio has fresh batteries in it. Make sure you
have a means of receiving severe weather information. Make sure you know what you should do if threatening weather approaches.
For more information on Alabama's fall severe weather season and other weather hazards inherent to Alabama, and for tips on preparing for these weather events,
please review the Alabama All Hazards Awareness publication, produced cooperatively
by the National Weather Service and the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.
UAHuntsville is proud to announce that it has achieved National Weather Service StormReady University designation. UAH is one of
only five universities in Alabama to receive this designation. StormReady communities are better prepared to save lives from the onslaught of severe
weather through advanced planning, education, and awareness.
Are You Ready?
Ask yourself these questions to find out if you are ready for the next
emergency situation. Remember — it's not a question of if, but when the next crisis will occur. Be prepared.
Links to federal and State readiness sites:
Why is Emergency Preparedness Important?
Emergencies can come without warning at ay time. Being prepared physically and psychologically to handle unexpected accidents or disasters is an
individual as well as an organizational responsibility. Your safety is of primary importance.
The safety and security of students, faculty, staff, and visitors is everyone’s responsibility. Emergency preparedness activities are
important to help provide a solid framework for organizing people and actions to control or respond to the effects of a disaster or crisis situation.
FEMA defines preparedness as "Those activities, programs, and systems that exist before an emergency and that are used to support and enhance
response to an emergency or disaster." Emergency preparedness includes not only emergency action planning (evacuation, sheltering, etc.), but also
actions that can be taken beforehand to lessen the impact of (mitigate) or prevent the occurrence of an incident, and resume normal operations as
quickly as possible following an incident.
This web site contains instructions, examples, forms and templates, training links, and other resources to assist you with developing and
maintaining your department's Building Emergency Action Plan and Continuity of Operations plan.
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