Being part of the Storm Ready program is about preparing our community's increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events. Americans live in the most severe weather-prone country on Earth. Some 98 percent of all Presidentially declared disasters are weather related, leading to around 500 deaths per year and nearly $15 billion in damage. The StormReady program helps arm America's communities with the communication and safety skills needed to save lives and property before, during and after the event. StormReady helps community leaders and emergency managers strengthen local safety programs.
StormReady communities, counties, Indian nations, universities and colleges, military bases, government sites, commercial enterprises and other groups are better prepared to save lives from the onslaught of severe weather through advanced planning, education and awareness. No community is storm proof, but StormReady can help communities save lives.
StormReady uses a grassroots approach to help communities develop plans to handle all types of extreme weather—from tornadoes to winter storms. The program encourages communities to take a new, proactive approach to improving local hazardous weather operations by providing emergency managers with clear-cut guidelines on how to improve their hazardous weather operations. Applying is easy. To be officially StormReady, a community must:
Polk County Emergency Management Agency is proud to be a Storm Ready Community, and will continue to be proactive by promoting weather safety. If you are a resident of Polk County Georgia please consider signing up for FREE weather warnings. By signing up you will receive flooding warnings, severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings when these type warnings are issued by the National Weather Service for your area. This service is provided to all Polk County residents for FREE. Sign Up here!
