Basic Info
What is the number one hazard for Greene County?
What is Flooding.
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
What is Communicable Disease (Flu, Hepatitis, Measles)
If you are in this type of structure during a tornado, the safest thing to do is get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or storm shelter.
What is a Trailer or Mobile Home
What many phases are there in recovery?
What is 2 phases. (Short-Term Recovery and Long-Term Recovery)
This natural disaster appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped could that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour.
What is a Tornado
What 3 places should you have an emergency kit?
What is Car, House, and work.
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan
The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to live on for how many hours?
What is 72 Hours
How often is the Greene County Recovery Plan re-written?
What is five years.
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, furnace, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
What is an Earthquake
Basic services such as electricity, telephones and gas may be lost during disaster. What piece of equipment is used to prepare for this?
What is a Generator.
In Greene County, how many hazards does our Mitigation Plan identify as being a threat for our community?
What is 31
You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.
What is Water
What is the best item to donate during disaster recoveries?
What is Money
Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes, land movement, or progressively leaning tress are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
What is a Landslide
This is issued by the National Weather Service when severe weather has been indicated on a radar or spotted in the area by a trained professional.
What is Severe Weather Warning (Tornado Warning, Flash Flood Warning)
Once a month on the second Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. (Weather permitting)
What actions should be taken if you hear the outdoor warning sirens?
Take shelter immediately in the lowest floor of the building, away from windows.
Greene County offers a community organization where volunteers can help with response and recovery efforts. What is the name of this program?
What is C.E.R.T
This natural disaster can be accompanied by other natural hazards, including earthquakes, mud-flows and flash floods, rock falls and landslides, acid rain, fire and tsunamis.
What is a Volcanic Eruption
What hazard is Greene County SECOND most vulnerable for?
What is Hazardous Materials
What is Mitigation?
Any action taken to reduce or limit the loss of life or property to all hazards.
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.
Self-Deploy
What level of government provides funding for recovery based on a disaster deceleration?
What is Federal (FEMA)
In 2018, this hazard caused over 150 illnesses in Greene County alone and can cause strokes, rashes and dehydration in both animals and humans.
Extreme Heat