Emergency Management: Elkhart County share these safety tips winds, leaving the Michiana ...

Elkhart County Emergency Management following shares advice safetty winds stopped cleaning Michiana

Winds could not have been so strong on Friday morning, as they were on Thursday, but still pretty easy to see the chaos left Michiana. The Department of Emergency Management: Elkhart County wants to share some safety reminders when dealing with strong winds and style.

Director Jennifer Tobey says, whether they come down on a road with power lines, do not drive them. Suppose you are active and call 911.Don't call emergency management department or the police or fire department specifically select only 911 in order to achieve the proper channels.

She says that in terms of cleanliness, after collecting all the twigs and branches, to know whether you are entitled to burn in your community you need. If the rules or regulations do not permit, he says, can lead you to an environmental center in your neighborhood, to get them going.

Tobey told anyone driving in high winds expected to slow and go as you faced other extreme weather conditions.

"You can literally drive down the street and is hit as cement and take the road" Tobey said. "It's no different than if the accumulation of water on the street and tell you an inch of water can cause seaplane and go down the street. It's just the kind of wind different kind of reaction."

Tobey told his best friend for a storm is a weather radio.

"Whether it is a statement of the snow emergency drought emergency, all these kinds of emergencies come through radio time," Tobey said. "If you still have room on your Christmas list to Walgreens, Walmart, Meijer, select one of these weather radios. Our office has been released. It enables you to get notification of events such as gusts of wind."

Finally, Tobey said these strong winds, we should have seen this begin to serve as message to the operator, in this mindset winter driving weather.

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