Imagine this: A storm is coming. It’s not predicted to cause any major outages, but you’ve been surprised before and you’re not keen to be surprised again.
You’re the emergency response manager for your neighborhood resilience hub, so it’s your responsibility to make sure everybody in the neighborhood has a safe place to go if things get bad. You check over the equipment to make sure everything’s in working order — solar panels, batteries, backup generator. Check, check, check.
You have a list of all the sick and elderly folks in the community and a gaggle of volunteers ready to run wellness checks after the storm, if needed. In fact, the hub is already starting to fill up with people ready to lend a hand…