Goderich has just completed a review of its Emergency Preparedness Plan.
The province requires each municipality to review its plan once a year as well as conduct an exercise, which may be as simple as a table top exercise.
CAO Larry McCabe says Goderich has an advantage over most municipalities because residents know first-hand that a disaster can happen.
McCabe points to the cyclone in the summer of 1995 and then the tornado of 2011 as events that encourage residents to take emergency preparedness seriously.
McCabe adds as often as they go through the emergency exercises they always learn something and communications between all of the people involved is always a key component of the plan.
"You now have more of a responsibility on social media, Facebook, Twitter and 211 is all available," says McCabe. "A lot of those things weren't at that stage in two-thousand and eleven of our tornado. But certainly a lot of things have changed and the communications is an important part of it."