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=== Severe Cold Weather Planning === | === Severe Cold Weather Planning === | ||
Learning Objective: | |||
Team members will plan for severe cold weather impacts by ensuring their own readiness and identifying ways the team can support vulnerable neighbors and the broader community. | |||
Facilitation Guide: | |||
Begin by framing the issue: in Portland, severe cold events may bring snow, freezing rain, and prolonged sub-freezing temperatures. These conditions can disrupt transportation, cause power outages, and create life-safety risks—especially for people without reliable housing, older adults, and those with medical needs. NETs must first be prepared personally, then consider their role in neighborhood-level response. | |||
Facilitation steps: | |||
Personal Readiness: Lead a quick roundtable where each member shares how they prepare for cold weather at home. Prompt with questions: Do you have backup heat and lighting? Extra food and water? Warm clothing and blankets? Encourage members to think about household needs for at least 72 hours without power or transit access. | |||
Neighborhood Risks: As a group, discuss local risks: steep streets, vulnerable residents, reliance on public transit, or frequent power outages. Identify which hazards are most pressing in your area. | |||
Community Resources: Brainstorm resources that could help during a cold snap. Examples: community centers or churches that may serve as warming shelters, neighbors with 4x4 vehicles, mutual aid networks, or partnerships with social service organizations. | |||
NET Role: Facilitate discussion about what the NET team can realistically do. Ideas might include: | |||
Checking in on elderly or mobility-limited neighbors. | |||
Sharing official information about warming shelter locations. | |||
Supporting PBEM or community partners if shelters or warming centers are activated. | |||
Conducting a neighborhood “snow walk” to identify icy hazards or blocked storm drains. | |||
Action Planning: Ask the team to agree on one or two actions they can take before next winter—such as updating contact trees for cold weather alerts, pre-identifying neighbors to check on, or adding winter-specific items to caches (ice melt, tarps, hand warmers). | |||
Debrief Questions: | |||
How confident do we feel about our own household cold-weather readiness? | |||
Who in our neighborhood might be most at risk during a prolonged freeze? | |||
What resources could we lean on or coordinate with during a cold snap? | |||
What is one concrete step we can take before next winter to be better prepared as a team? | |||
=== Sanitation Planning === | === Sanitation Planning === | ||
