Disaster Planning Tips
Disaster can strike at any time, without any warning. Having a family
plan is _vital_ in emergencies. Visit the links below for information on
disaster planning, making an emergency preparedness kit, and other items
as well.
Red Cross Disaster Services
has
some great guides on planning for emergencies. Some of their guides include:
The Red Cross has additional information for seniors, people with
disabilities, and animal and pet owners at prepare.org.
For additional tips, also visit The Weather Channel®'s Operation
Safeside website.
Amateur Radio Operator Emergency Planning
The ARES Field Resources Manual (PDF) has helpful tips, forms, and guides for amateur radio operators.
The Green County, Ohio, ARES® group has a jumpkit outline in webpage
HTML format
PDF format.
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Weather Radios
Weather radios are a great tool to have, especially if you live in rural
areas without civil alert sirens. There are many types to choose from,
many have alert functions that will sound an alarm when watchse and/or
warnings are issued by the National Weather Service. If you only wish to
receive alerts for certain counties, there are weather radios in
production that have Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)
functionality. If you have one of these radios and need the county (also
called FIPS) codes, please consult the list below. For more information
on weather radios, visit NOAA's NWR Consumer Information page.
Central Missouri Weather Radio Frequencies:
KWN-55 Jamestown 162.450 MHz - CH 4
WXL-45 Fulton 162.400 MHz - CH 2
FIPS codes for SAME enabled weather radios
Central Missouri counties:
- Audrain -- 029007
- Boone -- 029019
- Callaway -- 029027
- Cole -- 029051
- Cooper -- 029053
- Howard -- 029089
- Miller -- 029131
- Moniteau -- 029135
- Morgan -- 029141
A full list of Missouri FIPS codes can be found here
Weather Radio Missouri.
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