Port Ludlow Emergency Committee
In a major earthquake or storm, help from outside may take days to arrive. Your Block Captain is the trained neighbor who checks on your street first.
Port Ludlow Emergency Committee
In a major earthquake or storm, help from outside may take days to arrive. Your Block Captain is the trained neighbor who checks on your street first.
Type your street name — for example Timber Ridge or 103 Rainier Lane. You can leave the house number off.
Results appear below once you finish typing.
A short tour of everything here: looking up your Block Captain, what the result means, the preparedness videos and documents, and where to ask a question. No sign-in, and nothing recorded about who watches.
Block Captains are volunteers from your own neighborhood. After a disaster they check that neighbors are safe, note who needs help, and pass that picture by two-way radio to a community communication center, which relays it on to Jefferson County. They are not first responders — they are the first people to know whether your street is all right.
Port Ludlow is organised into 38 response neighborhoods, each divided into Response Areas of roughly 10 to 20 homes.
Look up your own street above to find yours. For anything more — a question about your area, or if you cannot reach your Block Captain — contact the PLEC Chair at PLEC.Chair@gmail.com.
These neighborhoods have nobody covering them right now. If you live in one — or know someone who does — this is where help is needed most.
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There is no obligation in asking. The orientation video is public, so you can see exactly what the job involves before you decide — plenty of people watch it, think about it, and decide it is not for them. That is a perfectly good outcome.
If you're a Block Captain or another PLEC volunteer and can no longer serve, you can take yourself off the roster right here. No explanation needed, and no hard feelings at all — knowing is what matters, so your street isn't counted as covered when it isn't.
PLEC has three jobs: to help residents prepare themselves before a disaster; to be the communications link between Port Ludlow and Jefferson County during one; and to organise neighborhood and community-wide self-help in the days afterwards.
That runs on 38 response neighborhoods, four communication centers, and the Block Captains who cover them — all of them volunteers from the community, the committee included:
To reach any of the committee, email the Chair at PLEC.Chair@gmail.com.
Checklists, response area maps, the Think, Plan, Do booklet and the Block Captain working documents — all free to read, print and pass to a neighbor.