Ready South Texas

City of San Antonio

About this app

Be prepared for disaster. The Ready South Texas app is an all-hazards overview of disaster information to help you prepare, plan and respond to disaster in your area.

Using the Ready South Texas app, you will be able to:

• Share your status with your selected contacts with the push of a button.
• Receive critical emergency alerts via push notification.
• Locate Bexar County’s emergency shelters.
• Display up-to-date evacuation route maps.
• Get the latest news and weather for the Bexar County area.
• Create a personalized Emergency Preparedness Plan by answering five basic questions.

Once Your Plan is generated, it is stored on your smartphone and can easily be shared with family members and friends. Your Plan comprises:

• An Emergency Supply Kit Checklist tailored to your needs.
• A Customized Emergency Food Supply Shopping List.
• An Emergency Communications Plan to notify your loved ones of your status
• Critical information to prepare your home for impending disaster.

Learn about the various emergency situations that Bexar County Texas residents are most likely to face in eleven integrated eGuides:

• Public Health Emergencies
• Terrorism
• Disaster Recovery
• Active Shooter Response
• Floods

Ratings and reviews

Fantastic. This app is a great resource for keeping up with COVID-19 without being overwhelmed by all the crazy news stories out there right now. Only the essentials with this app. A+++ for that. However, the app does have bugs for actually using the make a plan option. I'm only using it for news updates, so it's good for that.

I'm trying to create a plan, but it crashes everytime I try to Select Contact. I went to the app, cleared data and cache, then went to permissions and gave it permission to access my Contacts and Location, which it never asked about upon installing. Same problem. I'm giving up and uninstalling the app.

The news section of this app has not been updated since the end of April, yet every news release from Bexar County (including today, 26 June) says to download it to stay informed. Kind of defeats the purpose of you are not putting the latest news in it.

What's new

In this release, we’ve improved the app’s accessibility by offering a high-contrast theme option, access code was moved to the app settings, and news articles without images no longer show a placeholder image for a more compact view.