Hurricane Response SMS Shelter Location Bot
This project is part of the Code for America Hurricane Response effort.
As part of this effort, in response to hurricanes and similar disasters, we work to provide up-to-date and accurate information on available shelters and food/water distribution points for those in affected areas.
The Problem
Often, during a hurricane and its aftermath, internet can be unreliable for communication. In these cases, an alternative that can be more reliable is SMS text messaging.
What This Project Does
This project uses data from our API (see hurricane-response/florence-api), along with Twilio text messaging services, to provide a queriable SMS text message interface for shelter location information.
I’m a bot! You send me a zip code via SMS, and I reply with the nearest location I know of for the thing I know how to locate.
To use it, you can query by sending a message with a zip code in it. You will get back a series of messages with a list of known shelters and their information.
Contributing
We welcome your contributions! Take a look at our Code of Conduct, then read our Contributing doc to get started!
License
This code is licensed under the MIT license. More details in the LICENSE file.