The 7th Annual NPM sponsored by FEMA has been underway for a week and Petaluma ALERT is registered as one of a few thousand communities in the country that are planning events and activities that are designed to make the public more aware and informed about how to Be Ready [...]
OK, so we’ve been “goofing off,” and “No, the garage hasn’t been cleaned up … yet!” Can Me, Myself & I blame it on the fact that Eagle-Eyes hasn’t spotted any headlines lately that captured his attention that contained a constructive and positive message? Maybe it’s the fault of Hammerhead, [...]
The blog team for “Our River Town” has been quite busy with local community projects and almost missed it; but, Eagle-Eyes, caught the story on the 6 p.m. NBC Bay Area News The blog team for “Our River Town” has been quite busy with local community projects report last Saturday [...]
When The Trio (Me, Myself & I) uses “Oh no! Not again …” for the title of a blog, it usually means another earthquake has happened nearby our favorite river town. However, no - not this time. It’s only 2 a.m. and Me wakes up worrying about paying the monthly [...]
This is KI6GOO calling all licensed amateur radio operators in the 94952, 94953, 94954 Zip Code areas. Doesn’t common sense tell us that we must be willing to step up to the plate and be ready to help our neighbors in light of the various natural disasters over the years, [...]
Last week was filled with various amateur radio exercises and drills held across the country. Locally, Sonoma County ARES and Marin CERT held simulated emergency tests in connection with Thursday’s statewide ShakeOut! According to the media, “At 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, more than 6.9 million Californians in schools, businesses, nonprofit [...]
This new toy is called a yo-yo. Me, Myself, & I have discovered not only a new meaning for the "up & down" motion of a yo-yo, but we have also created a new acronym. Some new readers might wonder what this is all about, so they will have to [...]
Eagle-Eyes woke Me, Myself, & I up the other morning at 4 a.m. and yelled, "Look at this headline in the P.D.!" - County vulnerable to telecom sabotage. "Oh, oh!" said Me."Here we go again," I added. Myself entered the conversation with a new acronym - WOOO! Me asked, "What [...]
Eagle-Eyes spotted a flyer titled, Emergency Shelters & Disaster First-Aid Stations that was prepared and published by the Emergency Services Subcommittee of the Petaluma Area Chamber of Commerce in 1990. Why, then, did he show it to "Me, Myself & I" and yell, "What a coincidence!" Hammerhead put in his [...]
Eagle-Eyes spotted the P.S. in my last blog (1-7-08), Did you notice the use of "concerned? It a hidden clue to a future blog." Here it is - The recent storms that hit Petaluma and Sonoma County caused a loss of electric power, here and there, for more than just [...]