Ready Pinellas vs Civasure

Pinellas County Emergency Management’s Ready Pinellas application is a mobile disaster preparedness and decision support application designed to assist Pinellas County citizens in planning ahead, or when tropical storms approach our area, providing an outline of steps and recommendations and current information. Ready Pinellas App Features: Know Your Zone: When a tropical storm approaches it’s critical for residents to know their Evacuation Zone. It’s best to find out your zone before hurricane season so you can access your risk and make plans. As a user, you can enter your address and determine your evacuation level, the closest hotel accommodations, the closest general or special needs shelter. Note: not all shelter and hotel accommodations will be available in all storm levels. Check back with this feature when a storm is approaching. Readiness Checklist: The Readiness Checklist is a tool to provide users an easy guide for preparedness ahead of hurricane season. There is a Blue Sky Readiness Checklist for pre-storm preparations, and as a tropical storm approaches and Pinellas County is placed in the 5-day or 3-day cone as indicated by the National Hurricane Center, the app will present the 5-day Readiness Checklist and then the 3-day Readiness Checklist. Get a Plan: This feature helps citizens, businesses and special needs citizens create an emergency preparedness plan. Users can enter information about the location of their homes and businesses, family members, pets and family contact information and an individualized emergency plan will be developed that users are able to print or maintain online. Alert Pinellas: The most important step you can take to be prepared is to know when a hazard is coming. The Alert Pinellas emergency notification service allows Pinellas County to send urgent messages by voice to landlines and mobile devices, text, TDD and via email. Registration is free, and users can register each address where they live and work to get alerts for multiple locations. Storm Surge Protector: This interactive tool depicts the impact that different levels of storm surge flooding would have on a neighborhood, home or business. Users can type in their address and see a representative graphic illustration of their structure type with a depiction of the projected height of storm surge for the different evacuation levels. It also displays the specific evacuation level for the address and the amount of storm surge predicted for that evacuation level in a neighborhood view. Special Needs: Pinellas County’s special needs program is intended for those who need transportation or require minimal medical assistance while seeking public shelter. Registration for a special needs shelter is required and this feature allows users to register. Pet Preparedness: Get information on sheltering your pet, and a list of supplies needed to weather the storm. Find out information on pet collection or information about locating stray animals following a hazard event. There are also pet friendly shelters and pet coordination for special needs citizens. A link brings you to registration forms. Social Media: Follow Pinellas County on social media for general county information, breaking news, preparedness tips and real-time updates. Pinellas County All Hazards Preparedness Guide: Download a PDF version of Pinellas County’s All Hazards Guide, with information on how to prepare for and respond to hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, lightning and manmade disasters. National Hurricane Center: Connect to the official source for worldwide tropical predictions, weather, water and climate data, and analyses of hazardous tropical weather. Find translations and podcasts.

Civasure is an independent, privately operated platform built to help communities prepare for disasters before they happen. Civasure is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of any government agency. There's no login and no account. Open the app, enter your ZIP code, and answer a few questions about your household. Civasure gives you a readiness score from 0 to 100 and shows you exactly what you're missing. No water stored? It shows up. Don't know your evacuation zone? That shows up too. You also get suggestions on what to do about each gap. When things change, update your survey and your score updates with it. The activity feed keeps a history of your scores and shows notifications from emergency management teams in your area. None of this requires creating an account or giving up any personal information. If your HOA, employer, county, or local organization is using Civasure, you can enter their community code to connect your anonymous responses to their readiness data. Planners see the aggregate picture for their area and can figure out where to focus. HOW IT WORKS 1. Enter your ZIP code and answer a 2-minute survey about your household 2. Get your readiness score with a category-by-category breakdown 3. See what you need to work on and how to fix it 4. Come back anytime to update your answers and track improvement ANONYMOUS BY DESIGN • No account, no login, no sign-up of any kind • No email, phone number, or personal information collected • No tracking across sessions or devices • Responses are never tied to an individual • Your identity is not known to Civasure, your community, or anyone else • The app does not have the ability to identify you The data you contribute helps local emergency managers, hospital groups, and EMS coordinators understand what their communities actually need before a disaster hits.