Pp Shelters

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Shelters — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the shelters-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install shelters --cli-only

2. Verify: shelters-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/other/shelters/cmd/shelters-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

Gives agents and people the most comprehensive, credible open-shelter picture available: it unions FEMA's National Shelter System (NSS) OpenShelters feed with the American Red Cross Emergency-Action feed (the redcross.org map's source) and dedupes them, because FEMA is synchronized downstream of Red Cross and lags it by up to a day, so neither feed alone is complete. Coverage is the United States and its territories only (both FEMA NSS and the American Red Cross are US feeds), not other countries. FEMA rows are best-effort enriched with the richer FEMA_NSS layer (county/parish, the driving incident, the open date, generator and floodplain/surge attributes), and the CLI folds in live occupancy (current population, the general/medical/other/pet breakdown, capacity, and the driving incident) from the American Red Cross Open_Shelters layer, the one feed that reports a real headcount. Every shelter carries a source field recording which feeds it came from ('fema', 'redcross', or 'fema+redcross', with '+occupancy' appended once live population is merged in). It shows only publicly listed shelters: the Open_Shelters roster is used to fill population onto shelters already in the public feeds, never to add one, and any shelter the Red Cross keeps off its public map (hide_from_public) is dropped even when FEMA's feed lists it, so the tool stays conservative about never directing people to a site the Red Cross has not cleared for the public. It answers the questions people actually ask in a disaster, like 'the closest open shelter to me that allows pets' and 'which shelters are at capacity', filters by state, pets, accessibility, county, or generator, geocodes addresses (and bare ZIPs) when coordinates are missing, and never invents a number it does not have (a missed secondary fetch degrades to explicit null with a note, never a wrong value). Deep thanks to all first responders, emergency management practitioners, and relief nonprofit organizations for the work you do in communities when disaster strikes. This is an unofficial tool; in a life-threatening emergency call 911 and follow the official guidance and evacuation orders from FEMA, the American Red Cross, your local emergency management, and your local authorities.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Closest shelter

• near — Ranks open shelters by straight-line distance from a lat,lon, ZIP, or street address; geocodes shelters that are missing coordinates and reports any it cannot locate rather than dropping them; filterable by pets, ADA, wheelchair, county/parish, and confirmed onsite generator.

  Answers 'the closest shelter to me that allows pets' in one call; add --pets, --ada, or --wheelchair.

  shelters-pp-cli near 78566 --pets --limit 3

Capacity

• capacity — Computes utilization only where both a population and a capacity are reported, labeling the denominator (evacuation vs post-impact), and surfaces shelters reported FULL without asserting it as ground truth.

  Answers 'which shelter is at capacity?' honestly, marking unknowns as unknown.

  shelters-pp-cli capacity --state TX

One-call situational awareness

• brief — One command returns the open count, breakdowns by state and by the driving incident, pet-friendly and accessible counts, and the capacity picture, with an optional human briefing.

  Reach for this first when an agent asks 'what is the shelter situation right now'.

  shelters-pp-cli brief --markdown

Listings and detail

• shelters — Open shelters from the union of FEMA OpenShelters and the American Red Cross feed (deduped, each tagged with a source field: fema, redcross, or fema+redcross), flattened and filterable by state, pets, ADA, wheelchair, managing org, status, county/parish, and confirmed onsite generator; FEMA rows best-effort enriched with the richer FEMA_NSS/0 layer (county, the driving incident, generator and floodplain/surge attributes).

  Use to narrow open shelters to the ones that match a person's needs.

  shelters-pp-cli shelters --state FL --ada --json

• shelter — Full detail for one shelter joined on the stable shelter_id rather than the churning objectid, with unreported fields as explicit null; enriched with FEMA_NSS/0 fields (county, the driving incident, open date, generator, floodplain/surge, and the population breakdown) when reported.

  Use when you have a shelter_id and need its full record.

  shelters-pp-cli shelter 368133

Recipes

Closest pet-friendly shelter as compact JSON for an agent

shelters-pp-cli near 29.76,-95.37 --pets --limit 1 --json --select data.shelters

Returns just the nearest pet-friendly shelter so an agent does not burn context on the full feed.

Shelters confirmed wheelchair accessible in one state

shelters-pp-cli shelters --state TX --wheelchair --json

Filters open shelters to those confirmed wheelchair accessible.

Which shelters are at or over capacity

shelters-pp-cli capacity --json --select data.shelters

Reports utilization where computable and flags reported-full shelters, honestly marking unknowns.

One-call situational briefing

shelters-pp-cli brief --markdown

Bundles open count, by-state, by-incident, accessibility, and capacity into a single human-readable briefing.

Open shelters in one county that have a generator

shelters-pp-cli shelters --county Cameron --generator --json

Filters on the FEMA_NSS/0 enrichment fields (county/parish and confirmed onsite generator); matches nothing honestly when the enrichment is unavailable rather than guessing.

Shelters the Red Cross feed has but FEMA does not yet

shelters-pp-cli shelters --json --select data.shelters

The union surfaces shelters tagged source 'redcross' (open on the redcross.org map but not yet in FEMA, which syncs downstream and lags); a consumer can filter on the source field.

FEMA spine only, no Red Cross union or enrichment

shelters-pp-cli shelters --no-enrich --json

Skips both the Red Cross union and the FEMA_NSS/0 enrichment round-trips for the fastest, FEMA-OpenShelters-only answer.