Iowa Colony is a growing home-rule city north of Angleton along the SH 288 corridor, and its Emergency Management Department specifically prepares for severe storms, floods, hurricanes, and other disasters. After a power outage, a portable generator used inside a garage, too close to the house, or near an opening can create a danger you cannot see or smell. Headache, dizziness, nausea, weakness, or confusion in one person may resemble several other problems; when multiple people in the same space develop similar symptoms, carbon monoxide becomes an important possibility.
Carbon monoxide does not announce itself with smoke or a strong odor, so feeling uncertain about the exposure is not reassuring by itself. If carbon monoxide exposure is suspected, move everyone into fresh air and call 911 rather than staying inside to see whether symptoms improve. Emergency physicians can then evaluate the symptoms and determine what testing and treatment are medically appropriate.