Advance emergency planning can help to keep you and your family safe
when severe weather or a disaster strikes. Emergency management agencies
through local media and other means work to provide advance
notification and offer instructions to help you protect your family.
At
times, those instructions may include seeking shelter. Not all homes
and businesses in the area are equipped with a basement or other safe
place to seek shelter. RecPlex, located inside Prairie Springs Park at
9900 Terwall Terrace, is designated as an Emergency Shelter for the
area. During inclement weather or other emergency situations, area
residents may come to RecPlex to seek shelter.
During normal
operating hours, doors to the facility remain open for the public to
enter. Those seeking shelter should use the main entrance on the south
side of the facility. Outside of regular business hours, staff have been
instructed to open the facility. Those seeking shelter outside of
regular business hours would also use the main entrance on the south
side of the facility.
On rare occasions when the facility is not
staffed, should you need to take shelter during an emergency situation
at RecPlex and you reach the building prior to a designated staff
member, you can contact public safety personnel at 262.694.7353. They
will be able to ensure that the appropriate personnel reach the facility
to open it for those seeking shelter.