Educate Yourself
Emergency Kit: Emergency Evacuation Kit
Emergency Kit:: Contents of a Survival Kit
Floods: Understand Flash Floods
Floods: Understand Floods
Floods: What to do before, during and after flash floods
Home & Property Protection: Insurance Tips for Hurricane
Home & Property Protection: Power Outages
Home & Property Protection: Preparing your home for hurricane
Home & Property Protection: Tips for avoiding and handling Household Fires
Hurricane: Hurricane Scale
Hurricane: What is hurricane
Hurricane: What to do during, before and after hurricane
Special Needs: Disaster Tips for peole with Medical Needs
Special Needs: Disaster Tips for people with Mobility Disabilities
Special Needs: Disaster Tips for people with visual disabilites
Special Needs: Disaster Tips for the Hearing Impaired

Important Websites
2007 Hurricane Evacuation Contraflow Routes
All about Emergency Kit
All about Hurricane
Are You Ready
Be Prepared
Evacuation Map by Zip Codes
FEMA
Oklahoma Hospitals
Prepare your family
Safir Simpson Scale: Animation
Special Needs & Seniors Registration for Evacuation Help
Understand HURRICANES
Urgent Care Clinics

Important Numbers
American Red Cross 405-232-2606
Oklahoma City OEM 405-424-4300
Miami, OK OEM (918) 541-2275
Emergency 911
Oklahoma City Police Dept 405-231-2121.
Oklahoma City Fire Dept. 405 297-3314

Register for Oklahoma Notification System for free

City of Beaver Emergency Management (580)-651-9166
City of Enid Emergency Management 580-541-1263
City of Moore Emergency Management
Claremore/Rogers County Emergency Management 918.341.4233
Garfield County Emergency Management 580-249-5969
Kingfisher Emergency Management (405) 375-5662
Marietta/Love County Emergency Management 580-276-5861
McAlester/Pittsburg County Emergency Management 918-423-5655
Muskogee County Emergency Management (918) 682-2551
Oklahoma County Emergency Management (405) 713-1360
Woodward City/County Emergency Management 580-254-8518

Storm Prediction Center
Oklahoma Road Conditions
Oklahoma City Police Dept 713-884-3131
Information Referal 211
National Weather Service 281-337-5074
Non Emergency 311
Salvation Army (405) 619-7077

During severe weather warnings, there are a few things NOT to do:

First, don't go outside or to a window to look around. Instead, take shelter immediately and gather information on the storms via a portable battery powered NOAA Weather Radio, commercial broadcast radio or television.
Don't call 9-1-1 or the Police/Fire Departments for information on the storms or where to shelter. Know ahead of time where to take shelter, and as noted above, get information on the weather via radio or TV. 9-1-1 should never be called unless you have an emergency, and our Communications, Emergency Management, Police, and Fire personnel are typically extremely busy during severe weather events.
Don't take a shower or bath, use a regular wireline telephone, or use a computer connected to a modem. Should lightning strike nearby, the electrical current could travel through the telephone line or the plumbing to you.
Finally, don't take shelter under a highway bridge. Click on the next page for more information on this.


Special Needs
People living in surge / evacuation zones without adequate transportation are considered those with special needs. Those needing assistance in evacuating should contact their local office of emergency management before the begining of hurricane season so arrangements for evacuation can be made ahead of time.If you know you will need assistance to evacuate during a disaster, please register by calling 211. If you live in city of houston you may also call 311. Register before a disaster actualy occurs. Both 211 & 311 are manned 24 hours a day to assist you

If you need to Evacuate...
There may be conditions under which you will decide to get away, or there may be situations when you are ordered to leave. Plan how you will assemble your family and anticipate where you will go. Choose several destinations in different directions so you have options in an emergency.
Create an evacuation plan:
Plan places where your family will meet, both within and outside of your immediate neighborhood.
If you have a car, keep a half tank of gas in it at all times in case you need to evacuate.
Become familiar with alternate routes and other means of transportation out of your area.
If you do not have a car, plan how you will leave if you have to.
Plan Places where your family can meet, both within and outside of your immediate neighbourhood.
Identify Several places you can go in an emergency, a friends home in another town, a motel or a public shelter.
Take your emergency supply kit unless you have reason to believe it has been contaminated.
Lock the door behind you.
If time allows:
Call or email the "out-of-state" contact in your family communications plan.
Tell them where you are going.
If there is damage to your home and you are instructed to do so, shut off water, gas and electricity before leaving.
Leave a note telling others when you left and where you are going.
Check with neighbors who may need a ride.