{"id":4140,"date":"2011-10-27T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2011-10-27T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T18:28:58","slug":"city-of-thornton-offers-residents-winter-weather-preparedness-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/city-of-thornton-offers-residents-winter-weather-preparedness-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Thornton offers residents winter weather preparedness tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The City of Thornton wants residents to be prepared for the coming cold weather.\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-HhR4JpeyM8s\/TqKqFBdaIbI\/AAAAAAAAFCY\/KSFEGGyD8C0\/s288\/winter-weather.jpg\" alt=\"The City of Thornton wants residents to be prepared for the coming cold weather.\" width=\"288\" height=\"207\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The City of Thornton wants residents to be prepared for the coming cold weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we have been covering all week, by the governor\u2019s declaration this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/education\/governor-ritter-proclaims-winter-weather-preparedness-week-in-colorado\/\">Winter Weather Preparedness Week in Colorado<\/a>.\u00a0 The City of Thornton has gotten on board with information to help the city\u2019s residents prepare themselves for the coming season.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton has become much more \u2018weather aware\u2019 in recent years and we applaud them for that.\u00a0 Weather has a direct impact on everyone\u2019s lives, too often with deadly effects, and it is important that people are aware of the dangers it presents.<\/p>\n<p>The new page on the city\u2019s website provides some great resources for residents.\u00a0 On the page you will find information from the National Weather Service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofthornton.net\/Departments\/FireDepartment\/PublicEducation\/Documents\/Winter%20Safety%20Tips3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a great document prepared by the Thornton Fire Department about winter safety<\/a> and information about the city\u2019s snow removal plan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofthornton.net\/Residents\/Pages\/Winterweather.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to visit the City of Thornton\u2019s Winter Weather Preparedness page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We do have to make note of a couple of things on the page.<\/p>\n<p>First, there is no link to ThorntonWeather.com.\u00a0 We are not affiliated with the city in any way however we are the only source of truly local weather news and information.\u00a0 The city must be careful of who they put out there as a recommended resource but ThorntonWeather.com is well-established having been around for more than five years and being well known and highly regarded in the community.\u00a0 We pride ourselves on the wealth of information we provide, an amount that far surpasses any other.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it is somewhat ironic that one of the links provided on the city\u2019s page is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coemergency.com\/p\/sources.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency Alert Information from the Colorado Division of Emergency Management<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a great resource page but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/city-of-thornton-discusses-weather-warning-systems\/\">as we have pointed out repeatedly, neither the city nor Adams County has any sort of emergency alert system<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a serious deficiency that the city has chosen not to address at this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofthornton.net\/Residents\/Pages\/Winterweather.aspx\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have been covering all week, by the governor\u2019s declaration this is Winter Weather Preparedness Week in Colorado.\u00a0 The City of Thornton has gotten on board with information to help the city\u2019s residents prepare themselves for the coming season. Thornton has become much more \u2018weather aware\u2019 in recent years and we applaud them for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/city-of-thornton-offers-residents-winter-weather-preparedness-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City of Thornton offers residents winter weather preparedness tips<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127,97,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4141,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/4141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}