Monday, September 29, 2014

High Tech Storm Shelters

 Good Morning from Blazing Embers! Do you live where there are a lot of tornadoes or natural disasters in general? Wouldn't it be great if you would be able to find some of the people stuck in the shelters a little easier even if it's covered in rubble? That is what Firefighter Shonn Neidel thought when he experienced a tornado last May in Moore, Oklahoma. He had found that their old shelter listing just wasn't enough. They had the home numbers for the places that have the storm shelters but that doesn't help when the house isn't much of a house anymore. They went looking at the different places that they assumed had shelters because the house was leveled to the ground or they were too badly damaged to actually show what house it was. They then though of an app that will show you physically where the shelter is and it will show them geographically instead of usuing land marks that may  not be there in a week. I personally (if I were to live in an area with multiple disasters) would love to have an app that would show me where to look for someone if they needed me. It would make life so much easier than going house to house with an outdated book trying to figure out where someone was instead of saving the ones that truly need you. Let me know what you think! Is the app a good idea or should they try to keep thinking?

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