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Emergency Preparedness

When an emergency occurs, make sure you are prepared!

CodeRED is a web-based Mass Notification System that enables New Kent County to make time-sensitive emergency and mass notification announcements to residents in a reliable, cost-effective, and efficient manner.  Click Here to visit New Kent’s Registration / Opt-In site to Sign Up. 

Review the following to discover more valuable emergency preparedness information .

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is responsible for building, maintaining, and operating the state’s roads, bridges, and tunnels. When an emergency and/or storm occurs, please click here to review VDOT’s lane reversal evacuation plan for Interstate 64.

Ready Virginia is a statewide public education effort to prepare Virginians for all hazards, including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks.

• To download Ready Virginia’s three-step plan to follow in emergencies, please click here.
• To download Ready Virginia’s Hurricane Evacuation Guide, please click here.
• To find out more information about Ready Virginia, please click here.

Ready, launched in February 2003, is a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and man-made disasters. The goal of the campaign is to get the public involved and ultimately to increase the level of basic preparedness across the nation. To find out more information about Ready, please click here.

Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness (IS-22) is FEMA’s most comprehensive source on individual, family, and community preparedness. To find out more information about Are You Ready?, please click here.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES - Downloadable & Printable PDF Emergency Preparedness Brochures and other useful website links.