Organizing Your Neighborhood for Y2K

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As community members of the city of ______________, we need to ask our government officials to tell us the status of water and sewage. Have they begun to address the problem? Have they done testing? What were the results of the testing? Repair timetable? Retesting timetable? Will they keep the community informed?

What about hospital status: have all emergency room and o.r. equipment been checked and certified with vendors? Tested? What is the status of phones if there is no electricity? Emergency generators? Fuel storage? Ambulance status? Water and sewage? What happens if medicare/medicaid cannot be received ... will they see patients? What will they require?

Let me help you understand about Y2K being a 'systems' problem. Take your local grocery store. How many hours/days of food does it have? If there is no electricity, how will the trucks get fuel to bring food to the store? Are the trucks computerized? How will the vendors get the food to the trucks to get to the store? How will the automated canners can food to get to the vendors, to get to the trucks, to get to the store? How will the farmers use combines, etc. to get the food to the cannners, to get to the vendors, to get to the trucks, to get to the stores? You can see how this system works. The same can be done for any system ... electricity, telephone, gasoline, etc.

You as community members need to become responsible for your community by being individually prepared, then helping your neighborhood to prepare, then helping your community to prepare for any possible disruptions. How can we do this? (Open discussion. See meeting format).

Instructions for Use of Attached Forms

Attached you will find two sets of forms:

Personal Inventory

Neighborhood Survey

We suggest you ask individual households within a neighborhood to fill out the Personal Inventory form, and to bring the completed form to a meeting where the information can be shared and included in the 'Neighborhood Survey.'

The Neighborhood Coordinator(s) should make a copy of the completed Survey form and send it to a community-wide coordinator or appropriate agency, if neighbors have special medical needs that emergency management may need to know in order to give assistance. This information is also important so that the neighborhood can set up a plan to address the special needs of neighbors.

Personal Inventory (Information to be shared with neighborhood coordinator(s))

Address: ______________________________________________

______________________________________________________

Phone:________________________________________________
 
 

Adults in Household:

Name / Age / Life Threatening Allergies
 
 
 
 
 
 

Children in Household:

Name / Age / Life Threatening Allergies
 
 
 
 
 
 

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