March 5 - Alachua County is inviting the public to come and review the Draft Post Disaster Redevelopment Plan or PDRP at a meeting on Monday, March 8th at 6 PM. The meeting will be held at the Alachua County Public Health Department at 224 SE 24th Street in Gainesville. Click here for more information.
Click here to review the draft plan on line.
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County Launches New Notification System
February 23rd - Alachua County Emergency Management recently acquired the CodeRED high speed notification system. CodeRED will provide Alachua County officials the ability to quickly deliver messages to targeted areas or the entire County.
David Donnelly, Alachua County Emergency Management Chief, cautions that such systems are only as good as the telephone number database supporting them. "If your phone number is not in the database, you will not be called." One of the features that the CodeRED system has is the ability for individuals and businesses to add their own phone numbers directly into the system's database.
For more information on CodeRED click here.
To sign up for Emergency Notifications, click here.
For more information on the County's Notification Tool Box, go to our Be Informed page.
New Hurricane Wind Scale
February 17 - NOAA's National Weather Service will use a new hurricane scale this season called the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The scale keeps the same wind speed ranges as the original Saffir-Simpson Scale for each of the five hurricane categories, but no longer ties specific storm surge and flooding effects to each category. For more information click here.
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