SEATTLE -- The city of Seattle, King County, the Washington State Department of Transportation and Puget Sound Energy announced new plans for storm response this winter at the annual “Take Winter By Storm” campaign in downtown Seattle.

“Nothing helps us more than people who pre-prepare,” County Executive Ron Sims said.

One plan to coordinate efforts of the various agencies includes PSE working with the WSDOT to work together in areas such as the Woodinville/Duvall road, where last year trees were down for days.

“To ensure that we can team up a qualified tree crew, a line crew and then a roads crew to go in and effectively open that road,” Mary Robinson with PSE said.

The Health Department has printed out a warning in 14 different languages to try and reach immigrants who may be used to cultural practices that if used here could kill them.

“But when they come here where the temperatures are different, the housing is different, the ventilation is different and the way they cook is different, make sure they are doing things that are appropriate,” Maria Valenzuela with King County Health said.

WSDOT said it can work harder to build partnerships to get residents moving faster after a storm.

‘We can make adjustments on how we plow our highways and the interstate to ensure that people, when we encourage them, to take the bus that the buses can get to where they need to go,” Lorena Eng with WSDOT said.