🌩️ Be Prepared for storm season! 🌩️
Storm season is here, and Byron Shire residents are urged to be prepared, understand emergency warnings, and know where to look for resources and info.
In NSW, Storm Season falls between September and April, although major storms can happen at any time of the year. Storms can become extremely dangerous, causing destructive winds, heavy rainfall, damaging hail, and flash flooding.
When preparing an emergency plan residents should consider situations like:
- what if you can’t get home? 🏡
- what if your children are at school or childcare? 🚸
- do you have somewhere to evacuate to? ⛪
- what happens if you lose power for any length of time? 🔦
- are the pets safe? 🐶🐈
Australian Warning System
The Australian Warning System (AWS) is a new national approach to information and warnings during emergencies like bushfire, flood, storm, extreme heat and severe weather.
The System uses a nationally consistent set of icons, like those below.
What are the Warning Levels?
🙏 Learn what you can do to prepare and stay safe
- Download the Hazards Near Me app so you find current information about local emergencies
- Prepare an emergency plan – Home Emergency Plan
- Prepare an emergency kit – Emergency kit
- Prepare your property by clearing leaves, branches and debris from your gutters and yard – Prepare
- Taking care of your animals – Animal Emergency Plan
- Download apps that provide live information – Apps and resources
🔍 Useful links
- New South Wales Warnings Summary (bom.gov.au)
- Storm Season | NSW State Emergency Service
- Tweed LGA | NSW State Emergency Service
- Byron Shire Emergency Dashboard
- Flood monitoring cameras Byron Shire
📞 For emergency assistance, call NSW SES at 132 500 or triple zero (000) for life-threatening emergencies.
Stay safe and take care,
Byron Shire Council
Sarah Boulle | Recovery Coordinator (CRO Program) | BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL