What does DOTT want now?

Behold DOTT with her snazzy purple cellphone. Good thing she has unlimited nights and weekends to call her boyfriend R2D2! DOTT no longer has a landline phone, she's a busy robot on the go, who needs it?! She still wants to receive emergency information and alerts from the Department of Emergency Management. What's a robot to do?

Simple! Your Do One Thing Today is actually two things. If it's too much to handle, pace yourself and break it into two days. First, register your cell phone with the Emergency Community Notification System (ECNS). Landlines are already in the system, but VOIP and cellphones are not. To register your cellphone, look for the Alert Cowlitz County icon on the righthand side of the blog. You may have to scroll down. See it? Click it, follow the directions and go from there.

See, that wasn't so hard. Next, sign up to get emergency texts. You don't have to have a fancy cellphone to get these emergency texts, any cellphone with text capabilities can do it. All you have to do is text the words Follow CowlitzDEM to the number 40404 and you will get any emergency alerts from our Twitter feed. After you sign up, you will get a return text that says something about Twitter, just delete it, you don't have to join Twitter to get our alerts. You won't be inundated with texts, we only use this account for important information. Should you tire of receiving emergency alerts, simply text Unfollow Cowlitz DEM to 40404 and it will remove you.

If you have questions about either of these alerts, please email us at DEM@co.cowlitz.wa.us or give us a call at 577-3130, we're happy to help!