Monday, April 13, 2009

City hopes phone calls will save residents from flash flooding

From KVUE, March 27, 2009...

Living in Central Texas, it's pretty common to see intense rain storms. They can dump a large amount of rain in a short period of time-- and that makes conditions ripe for flash floods. In the event of an emergency, the City of Austin hopes to keep you safe with a phone call.

Friday [March 27], Austin employees demonstrated how their telephone-based emergency notification system works during a flood situation to keep residents safe and help first responders evacuate homes.

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