Severe Weather Season is Here, Do you KnoWhat2Do?
 Spring time in North Texas ushers in fabulous flowers, warm temperatures and show-stopping storms! When treacherous weather hits, it's critical you know actions to take in order to protect your family. Each spring, people find themselves trapped in their cars on washed out roads or sloshing through muck in their own homes, compliments of flash flooding. Lightning comes calling in the dark of night, one strike can cause a fire and destroy a home. Severe thunderstorms producing large hail and tornados sometimes strike with little or no warning.
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Emergency Management System
A system of organized analysis, planning, decision-making and assignment of resources to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the effect of all hazards that affect our community.
Principal Objectives
It is the responsibility of the city of Richardson Emergency Management office to preserve, maintain, and/or reconstitute civic government ability to carry out the executive, legislative, and judicial process under the threat of occurrence of any emergency or major disaster that could disrupt normal daily operations.
Its primary day-to-day operation is to identify and to mitigate the effects of natural, technological, environmental emergencies in so far as possible by means of preparing for and responding and recovering from their effects on the community.
Goals of Emergency Management
To ensure the continuity of Government, to coordinate emergency preparedness efforts, to establish, coordinate, and manage the emergency operations center, manage effective and efficient recovery efforts of government, and maintain contact with the citizens its serves.
Regional Public Education Program
In case of emergency, KnoWhat2Do! We face many potential hazards here in North Central Texas, and there are many skilled and caring emergency professionals ready to help if and when disaster strikes. But you are your own best protection. The KnoWhat2Do Web site, developed through the collaboration of our North Central Texas regional governments, will teach you how to Think, Prepare and Act to protect your personal safety and the safety of those around you.
Emergency Management Links
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