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BEING PREPARED IS AN A-OK PLAN – Jerry George promoted the simple tool of a two-sided sign to place in the window after a disaster has happened. Side two reads "HELP." George lives within this North Third Street neighborhood mapping group's boundaries.
Jerry George vowed for several months that a draft La Conner Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan would be completed by year's end.
The town's Emergency Management Commission approved and sent the 36-page document to the town council at its Nov. 19 meeting.
It includes a risk assessment for potential natural disasters and spells out emergency response procedures, operations and communications policies.
Ironically, the hour-long session at Maple Hall was held just ahead of a bomb cyclone that hit the Puget Sound region.
George noted that a winter storm here several years ago snapped off a tr...
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