"As a public servant in Morrison County I'm concerned that we provide our residents with the best information possible to enable them to adequately prepare in a timely fashion for what might be coming - whether it is flood, winter storms, severe thunder/lightning storms, tornados or whatever. Our Public Safety and Public Works personnel need to be able to respond rapidly and strategically to changing conditions as well, and weather related events can play a big part in their ability to do so.
"One of our recent areas of focus is bringing the weather down to street and parcel level. This gives us the ability to identify specific locations where there might be high concentrations of people in the path of a system, giving law enforcement and other agencies the ability to provide a more advanced notice than might otherwise be given - possibly saving lives. Being able to add our own layers of data as an overlay to Weather Defender could potentially help us in this regard."
Mike Disher
Director of Technology Services
Morrison County, Minnesota