Storm Ready status needed!!

I posted this article over at the Fredericksburg Weather blog in hopes of stirring up some community interest in better severe weather coordination in the greater F'burg area.  Perhaps a mention of it in this blog will help rally the cause as well. 
Certainly last week's record tornado outbreak should help focus our attention on the need for better severe weather warnings in our area.  Given the forecast "hole" in which Fredericksburg resides - receiving insufficient focus from both DC and Richmond area media - and given the general lack of attention that folks around here assign to the potential for severe weather effects on our community, we need better planning, education, and communication regarding such things.  A "Storm Ready" qualification would go far in providing better response and warning coordination for our area rather than relying on our typical ad hoc response to the effects of a severe storm plowing through a crowded public venue or neighborhood.  We may not have tornado sirens like communities out in Tornado Alley but we do have available technologies that could get the word out quickly.  Let's use them!