The City of Watertown will host a workshop on how to prepare for extreme weather on July 14. See details in the announcement below.
Attend the Extreme Weather Workshop, Building Climate Resilience and Flooding Solutions in Watertown, on Monday, July 14, 2025, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Senior Center, 31 Marshall Street.
Join us to explore the effects of flooding in Watertown and learn how to prepare for extreme weather. Get tips on preparedness, share flood solutions with neighbors and communicate your priorities to city staff. Resources and services to support residents during crises will also be available.
I hope anything having to do with “extreme weather” will include providing citizens ahead of time with clear/simple (non-technical) mapping of flood potential and possible escape routes _before_ an emergency is imminent. Obviously we should have prompt notification to residents about looming problems — in timely and encompassing ways other than incomprehensible landline-recorded messages hours after action needs to be taken. In recent major floods all over the country in developed as well as rural areas, no one seemed to believe such flooding could actually happen. I’d just as soon not live to see newscasters clucking about “well, a Massachusetts Watertown became a TRUE Watertown last night, when …..”