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STATE INFORMATION Emergency Management Agency (ema.alabama.gov) ...... 205-280-2200 Alabama Department of Transportation (www.dot.state.al.us) ...... 334-242-6358 Road Condition Information ...... 1-888-588-2848 National Weather Service Forecast Office (Mobile/Pensacola) (www.srh.noaa.gov/mob) ...... 251-633-6443 Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel (www.alabama.travel) ...... 334-242-4169 or 1-800-ALABAMA (252-2262) Alabama Highway Patrol (www.dps.state.al.us/HighwayPatrol) ...... 334-242-4128 (*hp from any cell phone) Alabama Department of Public Safety (www.dps.state.al.us) ...... 334-242-4371 Governor’s Office (www.governor.state.al.us) ...... 334-242-7100 Alabama Attorney General (www.ago.state.al.us) ...... 334-242-7300 Alabama Department of Insurance (www.aldoi.gov) ...... 334-269-3550 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (www.outdooralabama.com) ...... 334-242-3486 Alabama Department of Environmental Management (www.adem.state.al.us) ...... 334-271-7700 US Coast Guard, 8th District (www.uscg.mil/D8) ...... 504-589-6225 Alabama Power Company (www.alabamapower.com) ...... 1-800-245-2244 ...... Power Outages: 1-800-888-2726 Alabama Rural Electric Cooperatives (www.areapower.com) ...... 1-800-410-2732 Dothan Electric (www3.dothan.org/electric.html) ...... 334-615-3302

FOR EMERGENCIES, CALL 911 IN ALL AREAS FOR NON-EMERGENCY INFORMATION AND REFERRALS, CALL 211

COUNTY INFORMATION HOUSTON Emergency Management ...... 334-677-4834 MOBILE www.houstoncounty.org/Emergency_Management/Emergency_Management.htm Emergency Management ...... 251-460-8000 Sheriff ...... 334-677-4808 ...... www.mcema.net Dothan Police ...... 334-615-3600 Sheriff ...... 251-574-8633 Dothan Fire ...... 334-615-3500 Mobile Police ...... 251-208-7211 Ashford Police & Fire ...... 334-899-5113 Mobile Fire ...... 251-208-7311 Cottonwood Police ...... 334-691-2113 Chickasaw Police ...... 251-452-0571 ESCAMBIA Chickasaw Fire ...... 251-452-0574 Emergency Management ...... 251-867-0232 Citronelle Police ...... 251-866-5527 . . .www.escambia-emergency.com/Emergency_Management Saraland Police ...... 251-675-5331 Sheriff ...... 251-867-0304 Saraland Fire ...... 251-679-5506 Atmore Police ...... 251-368-9141 Satsuma Police & Fire ...... 251-675-0151 Atmore Fire ...... 251-368-9155 Bayou La Batre Police ...... 251-824-2757 Brewton Police ...... 251-867-3212 Bayou La Batre Fire ...... 251-824-9286 Brewton Fire ...... 251-809-1720 Dauphin Island Police ...... 251-861-5523 East Brewton Police ...... 251-867-4864 Prichard Police & Fire ...... 251-452-2211 East Brewton Fire ...... 251-867-4858 BALDWIN Flomaton Police & Fire ...... 251-296-5811 Emergency Management ...... 251-972-6807 COVINGTON .....www.co.baldwin.al.us/PageView.asp?PageType=R&edit_id=50 Emergency Management ...... 334-427-4911 Sheriff ...... 251-937-0202 Sheriff ...... 334-427-4911 Gulf Shores Police ...... 251-968-2431 Andalusia Police ...... 334-222-1155 Gulf Shores Fire ...... 251-968-1481 Andalusia Fire ...... 334-222-1121 Orange Beach Police ...... 251-981-9777 Florala Police ...... 334-858-3244 Orange Beach Fire ...... 251-947-3911 Opp Police ...... 334-493-4511 Bay Minette Police ...... 251-580-2559 Opp Fire ...... 334-493-7015 Bay Minette Fire ...... 251-580-1617 GENEVA Daphne Police ...... 251-621-9100 Emergency Management ...... 334-684-5677 Daphne Fire ...... 251-621-2836 . .www.genevacounty.net/Departments/EMA/tabid/129/Default.aspx Fairhope Police & Fire ...... 251-928-2385 Sheriff ...... 334-684-6947 Foley Police ...... 251-943-4431 Geneva Police & Fire ...... 334-684-2777 Foley Fire ...... 251-943-1266 Samson Police & Fire ...... 334-898-7118 Spanish Fort Fire ...... 251-626-8876 Slocomb Police & Fire ...... 334-886-3333 NATIONAL INFORMATION REVERSE-LANING FOR American Red Cross ...... 1-866-GET-INFO (1-866-438-4636) HURRICANE EVACUATION ...... www.redcross.org Environmental Protection Agency ...... www.epa.gov Reverse-Laning Plan Map Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) . . 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) ...... www.fema.gov National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA...... www.noaa.gov National Weather Service ...... www.nws.noaa.gov National Data Buoy Center...... www.ndbc.noaa.gov National Hurricane Center ...... www.nhc.noaa.gov National Oceanographic Data Center ...... www.nodc.noaa.gov National Coastal Data Development Center...... www.ncddc.noaa.gov NOAA Coastal Services Center...... www.csc.noaa.gov National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information ...... www.nhc.noaa.gov/satellite.shtml US Department of Homeland Security ...... www.dhs.gov/dhspublic

NOAAWatch website is a Web portal offering information about ongoing environmental events, and explains the role of NOAA in prediction, monitoring, and recovery from www.noaawatch.gov environmental hazards. It provides public access to current information on a number of environmental threats ranging from oil spills, to hurricanes and tsunamis, to space weather.

The National Hurricane Center normally issues public advisories on their website and to the media for Atlantic tropical cyclones every six hours at 4:00AM CDT, 10:00 AM CDT, 4:00 PM CDT, and 10:00 PM CDT. Intermediate public advisories may be issued every 3 hours when coastal watches or warnings are in effect, and every 2 hours when coastal watches or warnings are in effect and land-based radars have identified a reliable storm center.Additionally, special public advisories may be issued at any time due to sig- Plan for Reverse-Laning nificant changes in warnings or in the cyclone. For Hurricane Evacuation Certain strategic routes have been historically Mobile NHC and NWS Weather Data identified as hurricane evacuation routes. Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook RSS/XML feed These hurricane routes are “signed on the ...... http://hurricanes.gov/gtwo.xml ground” as such and have been presented to Website for PDAs and Smartphones ...... http://hurricanes.gov/mobile the public in various manners for their Mobile NHC home page in WAP (WML)* format knowledge and use. This hurricane evacuation ...... www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.wml route network begins with state and county routes in coastal areas that then feed into US STATIONS and Interstate routes. These existing hurricane evacuation routes serve as the base for the Alabama: “Reverse-Laning” plan. WABB 97.5 FM (Mobile) WMXC 99.9 FM (Mobile) WCSN 105.7 FM (Orange Beach) WOOF 99.7 FM (Dothan) WAAO 103.7 FM (Andalusia) WKMX 106.7 FM (Enterprise) For additional information go to: WDJR 96.9 FM (Dothan) WNTM 710 AM (Mobile) www.dot.state.al.us/Docs/Bureaus/Public+Affairs/ Administrative/Hurricane+Information/ : Hurricane+Updates MS Public Broadcasting 88.1- 91.3 FM WKNN 99.1 FM (Pascagoula) WZKX 107.9 FM (Gulfport) WXRR 104.5 (Hattiesburg) WBUV 104.9 FM (Biloxi) WJZD 94.5 FM (Gulfport) WRJW 1320 AM (Picayune) WQRZ 103.5 FM (Kiln) Prepared By

Not manufactured by NOAA, NWR receivers can be National Coastal Data Development Center NOAA Weather Radio purchased at many retail outlets and on the Internet 1-866-732-2382 Email: [email protected] NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) All Hazards is a nationwide network of radio stations broadcasting continuous weather information directly from a nearby To download a pdf version of this National Weather Service office. NWR broadcasts National Weather sheet go to: www.ncddc.noaa.gov Service warnings, watches, forecasts, and other hazard information 24 hours a day. Version 1.0 162.400 162.425 162.450 162.475 162.500 162.525 162.550 MHz MHz MHz MHz MHz MHz MHz Published June 2009