52 days before the next hurricane season, President Daniel Gibbs and the prefect Anne Laubiès gave an update yesterday morning on the preparations.
“For six months we have been working together on this subject. A steering committee has been created and we are looking to optimize the systems, ”said Daniel Gibbs. They have decided to communicate regularly on the systems and actions that the COM and the State are implementing.
"We are in the process of working with the various telephone operators to send SMS and inform about alert levels", explains the president. The COM will also soon be offering a mobile application, My City, on which various practical information will be indicated, including that on cyclone alerts.
"We are in the process of writing simple messages and creating pictograms so that they are quickly understood by as many people as possible," added the prefect, who considers that there is also an "educational" job to provide. “We forgot that such an important cyclone could affect us. We have an educational job to do so that everyone is convinced that, when the authorities say that we have to evacuate, we have to leave home, ”she insists. "For Irma, we told the residents in the affected areas to leave, we sent buses, but they were empty. Either people didn't believe us, or they weren't aware of the danger, ”comments Anne Laubiès. (More details on www.soualigapost.com)
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