The University will test UGAAlert on Feb. 6 as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, sponsored by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, the state governor’s office and the National Weather Service.

Phone numbers and e-mail addresses on record for all University faculty, staff and students were added to the UGAAlert database on Dec. 6.

Users are encouraged to login to www.ugaalert.uga.edu before the Feb. 6 drill to ensure this information is correct.

Users also can add alternate methods of contact, including up to three phone numbers that will receive voice or text messages and two e-mail addresses. The test may cause some disruption to University e-mail service, local phone service and cell phone service.

“We encourage people to include more than

one method of communication in UGAAlert,” said Steve Harris, interim director of the Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness. “That way, if a disaster incapacitates one means of communication, they will still get the message by another means.”

- University News Service