Editor: I would like to give great thanks and appreciation to all city, county and state emergency and public works personnel serving Bulloch County, and also our educational administrators and partnering businesses in the community, for their great mobilization, preparation and response for last week's threatening storm. Compared to Metro Atlanta (which is apples and oranges, in our case), we dodged a big bullet. However, I had the chance to witness the county’s emergency operations center in action (which I am grateful that the Board of Commissioners agreed to build in the last SPLOST referendum), and was able to observe thoughtful discussion, cooperation and proper execution of our emergency plans, by all involved.