[Tagging] Emergency shelters

[Micah Cochran]

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Do we have a tagging scheme for emergency shelters to be used in times of
> > natural disasters?
>
> Around me, there are almost no places that would be described like this
> as their primary use.
>
> Instead, there are schools, community centers, churches, etc. that are
> doing something normally, but there's a plan that if there is an
> emergency then the authorities might open it as a shelter.
>

Where I am at in North Alabama (USA) there are "tornado shelters" or
"tornado saferooms".  Some are singular use shelters.
For example:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langston-tornado-shelter-al.jpg

Others are within another use: school, community center, church, etc.

Both types of saferooms are signed and open to the public.

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*Micah Cochran*

GIS Coordinator  -  City of Athens  -  Engineering Services & Community
Development Dept.  -  Dept. of Public Works Building  -  1600 ELM ST W,
Athens, AL <http://g.co/maps/ncrp7> - geo:34.820608,-86.991474 -  p.
256-233-2224  -  f. 256-233-8791 - www.athensalabama.us
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