November 30th, 2010
LAKE WILDWOOD
EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM
Sign Up Today For Emergency Alerts & Gate/Spillway Closure/Opening Alerts!
Text Message Alert:
Text LWWEMC to 41411 and you will automatically be signed up.
Twitter Alert:
Go to www.twitter.com, create an account and search for lwwemc.
June 3rd, 2010
We have had problems with the present carrier for text messages, so a new one is being used. To sign up, text LWWEMC to 41411 and you will be set up. Those of you that have already signed up will be receiving an email with the same instructions. The twitter sign up remains the same as before. Hopefully this will be the last bump in the road!
May 30th, 2010
For those of you that have signed up for the notification system beta test, you have probably noticed you’re getting 2 messages each time. We’re working with the SMS service to get this fixed. Otherwise things are working well.
May 28th, 2010
We have finalized the dates for CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) training.
Richard Weires, a highly experienced EMT, and his assistants have graciously volunteered to provide CERT training for interested residents of Lake Wildwood.
This is a 24 hour course and will be split over 3 Saturdays, June 12, 19 and 26 from 9 AM to 6 PM at the clubhouse, with an hour for lunch.
This is a valuable course and we are fortunate, thanks in large part to LWW board member Wes Patton’s efforts, to be able to get it at no cost.
This is serious training and we would ask that you commit to all three Saturdays.
For more information or to sign up call Wes Patton at 478-787-4298 option 3
Further details will be forthcoming.
May 25th, 2010
The Emergency Management Committee with the cooperation and assistance of Lake Wildwood Security is now beta testing a notification system for emergencies and spillway/gate closings. The intent is to give residents timely notice of spillway and gate closings as well as any other emergency notifications.There will be 2 main methods: A text message delivered to your cell phone and a tweet on twitter.com. I will add an email option if there is enough interest, but the cell phone option will be the fastest way to get notified.
If you would like to sign up for the text message method, send an email to: alerts@abetterwildwood.org with your cell phone number. We need some volunteers to make sure it works with all the cell phone carriers, plus we’re tired of texting to ourselves! I will be doing a weekly test on each Sunday at 3PM, at least until we’re out of beta status.
On twitter.com, simply subscribe to lwwemc.
A warning: If you don’t have texting as part of your cell phone plan, it may cost from 10 to 20 cents per received message. There will not be an excessive amount of messages sent under normal circumstances, but keep that in mind.