seattle-ready

A disaster readiness website specific to the Seattle metro area.

The project is a custom instance of the Disaster Preparedness project, which is an adaptation of a pioneering project from Oregon but has been generalized to make it easy to clone and tailor to other regions.

To set it up, follow the instructions in the Disaster Preparedness project README.

Information that is unique to Seattle Ready, as opposed to any other Hazard Ready instance, is below.

Django language customization

Currently, there is no out-of-the box support for language codes cn (an abbreviated version of zh-hant, to make our URLs cleaner), and so (Somali). These instructions allow you to modfiy your Django installation to make it possible to navigate to /so/ and /cn/ to use this site in Somali and Chinese.

1. In venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/conf/locale, create a folder called cn and a folder called so
2. Copy the contents of the appropriate Chinese language folder into cn (curently, zh-Hant). This makes a Traditional Chinese language with the code cn.
3. Create a blank file called __init__.py in the so folder. In the so folder, create a folder named LC_MESSAGES and copy the file named django.mo from the equivalent location in any other language's folder. This sets up a dummy Somali translation, which is enough to fool Django into thinking it has a Somali version.

To finish adding languages, we have added so and cn to django.conf.locale in settings.py.

Special data operations

There is one shapefile in disasterinfosite/data that is too big to host on github. It is called LSLD_steepslope.shp - so in this repo, it is LSLD_steepslope.shp.zip. Unzip it before doing a data add- and copy it to the reprojected folder if you don't have one, because that takes a long time.

Deploying to the web via Docker

This repository has a Dockerfile that lets you build a Docker image of the Django app. It needs you to have DATABASE_URL and DJANGO_SECRET_KEY set in your environment, but it is also able to guess sensible defaults for these values.

Do docker build . --tag seattle-ready and you can run it. It will set up the Python environment for you. Depending on the state of the database you're connecting to, you will likely need to start at the python manage.py migrate step under "Load some data".

For an example of a working production environment, see the docker-compose.yml in the base repository

Values to put in Django Admin

Shapefile Groups

Note: because this site is translated, you can find the translations for these values in admin-strings.xlsx

######Earthquake Display Name: Earthquake Order: 0 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

######Flood Display Name: Flood Order: 1 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

######Landslide: Display Name: Landslide Order: 2 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

######Fire Display Name: Wildfire Order: 3 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

######Volcano Display Name: Volcano Order: 4 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

######Winter Display Name: Winter Weather Order: 5 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

######Summer Display Name: Summer Weather Order: 6 Likely Scenario Title: Likely Scenario Text:

Snugget Sections

What you can expect: 0 What's the worst that could happen: 1 Be ready, get prepared: 2 Other important details for your location: 3, collapsible During a flood: 4, collapsible During an earthquake: 4, collapsible During a landslide: 4, collapsible During a wildfire: 4, collapsible During a volcanic eruption: 4, collapsible During a winter storm: 4, collapsible During a heat wave: 4, collapsible Past earthquakes in King County: 5, collapsible Past summer events in the region: 5, collapsible Past winter storms in the region: 5, collapsible Past wildfires in the region: 5, collapsible Past eruptions in the Pacific Northwest: 5, collapsible Past landslides in Washington: 5, collapsible Past floods in the region: 5, collapsible

Site Settings

Area Name

King County, Washington

About Text

This site is a collaboration of HazardReady, the University of Montana, King County, and the City of Seattle.

Contact Email

[email protected]

Site title

Seattle and King County Ready

Site URL

https://hazardready.org/seattle

Site description

A disaster preparedness website

Intro Text

A natural disaster could strike your area at any time. Find out about where you live, work, or play in King County, WA.

Who Made This

Have questions? View the About page or email the Hazard Ready creators for more information.

Data Download

https://github.com/hazard-ready/seattle-ready/blob/master/disasterinfosite/data.zip