When something happens
A road under water, a fire to the west, the power off overnight: a notice raised here shows above every page under the hub until it is cleared.
How an alert works
Anyone with the keys to a linked group can raise a notice: the brigade, the SES unit, the hall committee, the school. It goes up at once, with the name of whoever raised it, and comes down when they clear it.
A notice from a recognised emergency service carries the official warning level. One from anyone else is marked as a community notice, so a word from the hall never reads as a word from the agencies. For the whole picture, keep the state warnings app on your phone as well.
Questions people ask
Who can raise one?
The hub, and any group linked under it. Each notice says who raised it.
Where does it show?
At the top of every page here, from the moment it is raised until it comes down. A warning the hub itself raises can go out to every linked site as well.
Is it an official warning?
Only when it comes from a recognised emergency service. Anything else is a notice from locals: real, useful and labelled as ours.
What if there is nothing on?
Then the alerts page is empty, which is the best kind of news. A notice the hub has cleared stays there a fortnight, marked cleared, then goes.
Have it ready
The things that make the difference before the day comes.
- The two ways out of town, and which floods first
- The SES on 132 500, and 000 for a life at risk
- A plan for the dog, the horses, the chooks
- A neighbour who checks on you, and one you check on
- This hub, saved to your phone