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Summary: In the event of a disaster, make sure all of the family is safe, plan the evacuation and find out all of the information that is available about the disaster. Discover how disaster information is provided by a state's Department of Transportation with help from the director of an emergency management department in this free video on emergency preparedness.
Warren Lee is the director of the New Hanover County Emergency Management Department. The mission of the Department of Emergency Management is to protect the citizens of New Hanover...read more
"Well, first thing you need to do is make sure you family is all safe. And then know where you're going. Once you're told to leave, then where are you headed to, and how are you going to get there? If access roads are blocked, then know where alternate routes are. On our website we post any emergency information pertaining to evacuation routes. If there are road closures, then we try to put that information on and keep it updated. You can check DOTs North Carolina DOT has a website that they post all of the problems with any of the roadways in the state are listed there daily, and kept updated. North Carolina has a department of transportation maintains around the clock. Phone in service to find out traffic conditions, to find out if there are road closures, or evacuation routes that have been posted. That information is available twenty four hours a day, at five one one, just by dialing five one one, North Carolina DOT keeps that information updated regularly so that it's always available to you. Anytime we have an evacuation, one of the things that is a possibility is that we can reverse the flow of traffic on interstate forty. Right now, that's the only road in New Hanover County that is subject to have changes in traffic patterns. And that's a decision that will be made in conjunction with the state of North Carolina, the governor's office, state highway patrol and department of transportation, and our department. If that information happens to occur, then we will broadcast that on all the local radio stations, television stations, we'll put a crawler on the Internet, and you can find out that kind of information by dialing the five one one number that I mentioned earlier. So, anything of that magnitude that would impact traffic is going to be widely publicized. Not only that, we have overhead message boards that are posted at several locations in the county. You'll see that information posted on those boards at that time. We'll do everything we can to get that word out."
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