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Family Communication cell phone, wait 10 seconds before redialing to help reduce congestion. Limiting use of these services can help potentially
• If you are unsuccessful in completing a call using your
life-saving emergency calls get through to 9-1-1.
During And After Disasters network congestion. • Conserve your cell phone battery by reducing the
• Immediately following a disaster, resist using your brightness of your screen, placing your phone in airplane
By O’Neal Bardin, Jr., mobile device to watch streaming videos, download music or mode, and closing apps you are not using that draw power,
Executive Director, videos, or play video games, all of which can add to network unless you need to use the phone.
Northern Palm Beach
County Improvement ApoA upDAte
District
Your family may not
be together when disaster
strikes, so plan how you Abacoa POA Meeting Notices
will contact one another.
Think about how you will Official notification is posted via the bulletin board outside the Abacoa POA office as well as the www.Abacoa.
communicate in different com Web site. Members may now download Abacoa POA agendas and minutes from our Web site.
situations. Consider the
following questions when Notice of Monthly Abacoa POA Board Meeting – Oct. 15, 2019 – 11:30 a.m.
making a plan: Notice of Monthly Abacoa POA Community Architect (CAC) Meeting – Fourth Tuesday – See agenda for
• How will my family/household get emergency alerts and posted time.
warnings? **All Abacoa POA meetings to be held at the offices of the Abacoa POA, 1200 University Blvd., Suite 102 unless
• How will my family/household get to safe locations for otherwise posted. All agendas, as well as approved minutes, will be available at www.abacoa.com.
relevant emergencies?
• How will my family/household get in touch if the cell Articles herein are the creation of the individual writers, and do not express the opinion of the APOA. By printing an
phone, Internet, or landline doesn’t work? article herein, the APOA is not endorsing the writer, the article’s content, or any business referred to therein. The APOA
• How will I let loved ones know I am safe? will not be responsible for errors contained in, or related to, articles.
• How will family/household get to a meeting place after
the emergency?
Complete a contact card for each adult family member and
print them out. Have them keep these cards handy in a wallet, AbAcoA poA news & Activities

purse or briefcase, etc. Additionally, complete contact cards for
each child in your family. Put the cards in their backpacks or
book bags. An example can be found at http://www.fema.gov/ OFFICIAL NOTICE
media-library/assets/documents/34330. Information should
include contact information for family, friends and neighbors Abacoa Property Owners’ Assembly, Inc.
as well as doctors and school information. Now Accepting Notice of Intent to Run
For the 2020 Board of Directors
Identify a contact such as a friend or relative who lives out One director will be elected by the Class "A" voting members and
of state for household members to notify, they are safe. It may two by the Class "B" voting members

be easier to make a long-distance phone call than to call across Submit a statement declaring
town, so an out-of-town contact may be in a better position to why you would like to be part of the board and
communicate among separated family members. what you have to offer the Abacoa community.
The following are tips when making phone calls and using The statement may not exceed
your smartphone during or after a disaster: an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.

• Keep all phone calls brief. If you need to use a phone, All Notices of Intent to Run
try to convey only vital information to emergency personnel must be received in the
and/or family. .Abacoa POA Office
• For nonemergency communications, use text messaging, 1200 University Drive, Suite 102
email, or social media instead of making voice calls on your Jupiter, FL 33458
cell phone to avoid tying up voice networks. Data-based by 3 PM on November 1, 2019
services like texts and emails are less likely to experience
network congestion. You can also use social media to post All candidate statements will be posted to
your status to let family and friends know you are okay. In Abacoa.com on November 4, 2019
addition to Facebook and Twitter, you can use resources such
as the American Red Cross’s Safe and Well program.

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