Get Ready Shoreline - Ready Neighborhood & Ready Business Programs

Get Ready Shoreline is launching its local campaign as part of the national program “Take Winter By Storm” to assist with successful planning and emergency preparedness for communities at risk during storms, flooding, tsunamis, earthquakes, and landslides.

The Get Ready Shoreline program is free and accessible to Shoreline residents and businesses through a grant from the Washington State Department of Emergency Management.

The “Ready” programs are extremely important to residents and businesses vulnerable to being cut off from services during the first 72-hours of a disaster - that is why the City of Shoreline is reaching out to promote the free programs at this critical time. Additional information about this winter’s weather forecast can be found at this website.

The upcoming 2010 fall and 2011 winter months will be part of a phenomena known as “La Niña” and “the season will be especially cold, wet and could extend into spring months” according to a spokesperson with the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Seattle Times reporter Sandi Doughton wrote “With meteorologists warning a La Niña pattern is likely to bring colder, wetter and snowier conditions this year, a campaign called "Take Winter by Storm" is urging folks in the Puget Sound Region to get ready.”

Ready Neighborhood and Ready Business are just two of the free programs available, in addition to Map Your Neighborhood (see related article), as part of this winter’s National Emergency Preparedness. For more information about Map Your Neighborhood visit Washington State Military Department, Emergency Management Division, Disaster Preparedness, Map Your Neighborhood.

To sign up for programs call, write or email the City’s Program Assistant Jill Rucker at 206-801-2256,  or 17500 Midvale Ave N, Shoreline 98133.