Extreme Weather & Cherokee Communities

Welcome!

We are honored to work with you this evening.

This workshop is intended to introduce you to easy to use mapping tools that can help you and your community prepare for extreme weather events.

We are seeing more intense and more frequent weather events all across the country, whether it is excessive heat in the summer, arctic blasts bringing frigid temperatures in the winter, heavy rain and snow, or drought. These extreme weather events are triggering fires, landslides and floods. But we can empower our communities by learning more about the likelihood of different weather events in our regions, the consequences to our health and wellbeing, and steps we can take to prepare and adapt to these ongoing changes to our weather.

We will begin with a group activity so that we can work together to learn more about At-Large Communities and the challenges you face. Please fill out the form below and we will use your responses to build the map.

Caveats: This map is for demonstration purposes only. The locations and boundaries were obtained from public federal government websites and may be incomplete and inaccurate. Information about the communities was obtained from public websites and Facebook pages posted by the communities. The information contained in this map is not intended to be used for decision making. We apologize in advance for any inaccuracies and look forward to hearing from workshop participants to correct and expand this project.

Note: The map above was created live during the workshop. We had some participants log in during the workshop and document extreme weather challenges they face in their communities. We then used it as a tool to show how maps can by created and utilized to help your communities.

Information from this form will be used to update the map above

You can fill out the form on this website

or you can use this URL https://forms.gle/WaDrdhZW6zzYwvu67

or you can use this QR code

Please do not share private information since this is a public website

Below are the responses that workshop participants entered into the form above. This response spreadsheet was imported into the map. You can read the responses by clicking on the blue map markers on the Google My Map at the top of this page.

Copy of Extreme Weather (Responses)