The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now set up touse Twitter at all stages of an emergency—before the event strikes,during the event and after.
|FEMA has a Twitter page (@FEMA) with 30,000 followers.
|Before a forecast storm hits, FEMA can tweet advice to those inthe affected area. On Feb. 8 the agency instructed its followers:“Another #winterstorm for OK, north TX & New Mexicotonight/tmrw. Prepare at http://go.usa.gov/akw & follow @okem@txdps @NMDHSEM.”
|During an event, FEMA monitors Twitter by tracking the service'shash tags, which an eventual consensus of users assigns to mark agiven event. During the major snow and ice storm that moved acrossthe U.S. in early February, the most commonly used hash tag was#snomg.
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