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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Story and Photo by SHAWN YORKS/GDH 
Residents can now have up-to -the-minute alerts via email or texts thanks to the new notificiation system.
Wanna know what's going on right now in Guymon? The Guymon Notification System is one way to find out.
The Guymon Notification System is a way for the city and police to send out warnings such as severe weather, water warnings, the probability for rolling blackouts, and even when a sex offender registers with the city.
Anybody wanting to sign up for the free service can now do two ways way — according to Guymon Police Chief Eddie Adamson — either via the city's Website at www.guymonok.org, or by calling the police department's non-emergency number at 338-6525.
"After talking to a lot of people, they felt it was a little bit difficult to navigate (the Web page)," Adamson said. "Now, all they have to do is call the police station, tell us what list they want to sign up for, and we'll read them off for you."
Several lists are available to sign up for — severe weather, fire information, community events, emergencies, sex offender notification, water issues and police information — or simply sign up for all notifications.
And the system is controlled. If you don't want to receive a minor weather alert in the middle of the night, you can have the system not notify you during certain times.
"But if we have a bad storm and we get notice, we'll still send it out," Adamson said. "Most people, what we've found, are signing up for all Guymon notifications. They want to receive everything. But we won't send sex offender notifications at 2 a.m. It's all managed internally by us."
When Guymon experienced a blackout on June 16, Adamson couldn't get on the Internet to send the notification out.
"My phone worked, so I called one of my buddies in Virginia and had him log in," Adamson said. "The text messages that went out in the Guymon Notification System were sent by a professional wrestler in Virginia."
So the warnings will get out, no patter what.
"We're definitely encouraging people to please sign up this way," Adamson said. "We will notify the radio stations and the newspapers. But if the radio station is not on the air, there's not a whole lot we can do."
And as far as the newspaper, even if the print edition has already run for the day, the paper's Website at www.guymondailyherald.com can and will be updated immediately.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 04 July 2008 )
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