Today's blog is a copy of the May newsletter for Petaluma ALERT - Alliance of Local Emergency Radio Teams. Since I am a FCC licensed amateur radio operator, KI6GOO, I have been promoting the use of amateur radios as a means of communication during a major disaster. Petaluma ALERT - [...]
The following text has been copied from CEPS reports - "The California Earthquake Preparedness Survey (CEPS) was conducted by the UCLA School of Public Health and Survey Research Center for the State of California. The objective was to provide baseline data describing how prepared California households are for earthquakes and [...]
Note: The following blog was originally posted October 2005, and titled, The Spirit of PetalumaNet is still Alive. Within weeks of Hurricane Katrina, PetalumaNet announced the NERT concept (Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams) on an Internet TV show titled, “Emergency Readiness – Can Sonoma County Communicate?” (10-19-2005) One of NERT’s mission [...]
Once, again, seven years to the day in the Gulf Coast area, another tropical storm (Isaac) is following a path similar to Hurricane Katrina (2005). After it made landfall (6:45 p.m., CDT, 8/28/12), the winds gradually increased to a Category 1 Hurricane (80 mph, with gusts up to 100 mph). [...]
Yesterday's copy of Then & Now Blog #9, first printed on 4-19-06 (six years ago) outlined a citizens-driven initiative that, for the first three years (2006-2009) grew to include over 100 CERT grads (30 of whom earned Ham Technician Class Licenses), represented over a dozen NERT areas in Petaluma, including [...]
What a deal! The following blog could have been categorized as either Then & Now or Emergency Preparedness. This coming Wednesday, (4/18) will be the 106th Anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that caused severe damage in Santa Rosa. Some stories related to this historic event have already appeared [...]
Although we have been "blabbling" (sorry, I mean blogging) about being "ready" and "prepared" for coping with a major disaster, such as an earthquake, since Katrina (2005); the majority of households and neighborhoods in the Bay Area are NOT ready or prepared! Once, again, in order to PREPARE you ... [...]
At approximately 10:51.03 a.m. (our time - EDT), USGS reported that a 5.9 Mag. earthquake struck an area 4 miles from Mineral, VA (in Louisa County) which is 41 miles from Richmond, VA and 83 miles from Washington, DC. Parts of the Pentagon, White House, and Capitol were evacuated. Earlier [...]
What do you know? The Petaluma NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) concept; initially announced on an Internet TV program (October 19, 2005), following the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the Gulf Coast region, has slowly circulated around Sonoma County and resurfaced recently in Sebastopol under the title, "Map Your Neighborhood." http://sebastopol.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2011/08/news/sebastopol-creating-neighborhood-emergency-groups/ [...]
Just as Bob Heil changed the theme of his last Ham Nation #2 netcast on Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv network at the last minute, because of the current recovery efforts in Joplin, MO; The Trio changed the focus of today's blog due to comments made by Bob's guests as they discussed [...]