Female: How can I find shelters and co-shelters in my area?
Lesa: Well, co-shelters will be established by the office of emergency management here in the
city of Alexandria, and your own specific town, wherever you’re living. Not until the actual
disaster occurs, and the reason being for that, is at least in Alexandria, is that they, we don’t
know what the nature of the disaster will be and so we can't establish actual specifics sites that
people should go to until after the disaster happens, normally. If there’s a pending bad weather,
we don’t know where it’s going to strike, so we don’t know what shelter’s will be available, and
something that don’t foreseen and depending on the nature of the event. So people can go to one
place for one disaster and will be whole another location for another disaster to follow. So that is
why, they will announce it and that’s why it’s important that you tune in to your emergency alert
system.
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