The County of San Diego and local cities offer sandbags, checklists, flood control maps and webcams, and other important components in safety planning. For many reasons besides flooding, consider enrolling your cell or home phone number in AlertSanDiego, the County\u2019s regional emergency notification system. All of these links are available on the ReadySanDiego site. The City of La Mesa also offers emergency preparedness links on its website at cityoflamesa.com<\/a> (look under Residents?Emergency Preparedness).<\/p>\n Read some magazine articles at home:<\/strong> sdcl.org\/refdb2.html<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n How is El Ni\u00f1o expected to affect California? Find out by doing a magazine search on the County Library\u2019s website. Searching the General OneFile database with the words \u201cEl Ni\u00f1o California\u201d brings up a list of full-length articles from magazines as diverse as The Economist and Ski. Your county library card and PIN (typically the last four digits of your phone number) are required if you\u2019re searching from home or on a mobile device.<\/p>\n Enjoy a fictional version of climate disaster:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes known as \u201cCli-Fi,\u201d climate change in speculative fiction has been growing in popularity. Novelist Kim Stanley Robinson has been writing about the changing earth for years. His last fictional disaster scenario, \u201cSixty Days and Counting,\u201d outlines the political repercussions of global warming and environmental instability. \u201cThe Water Knife\u201d by Paolo Bacigalupi casts California as the evil empire against Arizona, whose citizens lost the war for water rights and are paying Chinese corporations for access to aquifers that lie beneath their feet. Other authors writing for the disaster genre include Michael Crichton (\u201cState of Fear\u201d) and Margaret Atwood (\u201cOryx and Crake,\u201d \u201cThe Year of the Flood\u201d and \u201cMaddAddam\u201d). Don\u2019t forget \u201cThe Age of Miracles\u201d by Karen Walker, which takes place in San Diego County as the earth\u2019s rotation slows and high tides swallow Del Mar. Even if El Ni\u00f1o turns out to be more like a passing rain shower, you can still get your adrenaline pumping with any one of these titles.<\/p>\n![\"AgeOfMiracles_TR_Coverweb\"](\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/AgeOfMiracles_TR_Coverweb-185x300.jpg\")
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