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Northfield Citizen Flood/Disaster General Information

Northfield.org in collaboration with the City of Northfield and 5th Bridge, is establishing an official list of Disaster Response Volunteers. This list of people will be contacted day or night in the event of disaster such as flooding, tornado, etc… Last fall’s flood caught our community less prepared than we want to be in the future. If you are willing to be contacted and to help in the event of a disaster, please sign up. Private business or residents who would like help with disaster prevention or clean-up should sign up under “I’d like some help”. If you have specialized skills or equipment that you would be willing to share, sign up under “I have specialized equipment/skills”.

5th Bridge is recruiting a team of people would be serve as team/site leaders to assist City Staff in the event of disaster. These people will receive some basic training. If you are interested in serving as a site/team leaders and are over age 21 and a resident of Northfield, please contact Candy Taylor at candy@5thbridge.org or call 507-581-3017.

Mobilization alerts will go out via email and/or the City’s Code Red telephone notification system. Volunteers will be directed to a meeting place where they will need to both sign “in” and “out”.

Additional information, including specifics on flooding and sand bagging are available of the City of Northfield Website.

If you are willing to help, sign up today….this is our community, we are all in this together and together we will face anything that comes our way.


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Responsible Use of Social Media in a Crisis

Hey everyone,

Mashable.com has a nice little story titled "What Responsibility Do Social Media Users Have During a Crisis?":

The phone call that used to take days — the “I’m OK, we just got phone service back” moment that felt like it took forever — has been shrunk to minutes, if not seconds in some cases. While it’s painfully obvious that the level of “global connectivity” hasn’t truly been reached in every part of the world yet, no one can deny that the proliferation of even the most basic mobile phones, even to areas without full electricity or plumbing, has made the ability to get critical information out that much faster, to a much more global audience.

With that awesome ability, however, comes responsibility. With everyone having the power to be their own “Anderson Cooper,” the job of getting out information to the world comes with clearly defined rules and objectives.

There's also a small set of three rules to obey:

  1. Family and Friends First
  2. Report What You Know, Avoid What You Don’t
  3. Think Before You Share

Click here to read the whole thing.

Twitter hashtags and the floods

#nfldflood

Hello!  It's been decided that our semi-official Twitter hashtag for any flood-related information will be #nfldflood.

We encourage you, Joe or Jane Q. Citizen, to tweet any flood-related information that you feel may be important.  The hashtag has been agreed upon and all local sites will be following it.  In the event of a flood, using this tag will ensure that your tweet will be immediately available in dozens of locations and visible to thousands of local people.

We encourage you to participate in these events.  By using this tag, you can be assured that your tweet will reach a wide number of people and that it will get maximum visibility.

#nfldflood - Learn it, use it!


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