HUTTO — In just three months at the helm of Hutto’s emergency management department, Director Jake Isbell has accomplished quite a bit. His latest accolade: earning the city recognition as a StormReady community by the National Weather Service.
“This involved us looking over our policies, our plans, our emergency notifications, our public preparedness campaigns like the recent severe weather spotting training that our citizens were able to go through,” Isbell told City Council at Thursday’s meeting.
Some requirements for this certification include establishing a 24-hour warning point and emergency operations center, having more than one way to receive severe weather warnings and to alert the public, creating a local system that monitors weather conditions, promoting public readiness and developing a formal hazardous weather plan.
