How many Petalumans know that "Great ShakeOut Drills" have been held annually since 2008 in California? Participating is a great way for your family or organization to be prepared to survive and recover from quickly. Locally, the Petaluma CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) program that was initiated in Petaluma, in [...]
How many readers saw Marian McDonald's "Close to Home" column titled, "Preparing for the improbable" in today's Press Democrat ? (11-17-2012) After defining a "Black Swan" event like a major earthquake along the Hayward fault (i.e., the impact of the highly improbable), what can we do? How can we prepare [...]
Although the current presidential election campaign has been dominating the news media for several months, the "Super Sandy" storm has interrupted the amount of presidential coverage for the past week and will continue to pop up with the latest storm recovery problems for several more weeks to come. Many professional [...]
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 [...]
Disaster Preparedness Video on PCA - Ch. 26 - 6:30 p.m.- Saturday (10/20) , Wednesday (10/24), Saturday (10/27) Seven years ago, following Hurricane Katrina, on October 19, 2005, Pacific Clearstream Media Group produced a TV show titled, Disaster Preparedness! Can Sonoma County Communicate? Our local Petaluma Community Access station, will [...]
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 [...]
In his "Disaster Preparedness & Recovery" blog, posted 2-1-12, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate highlighted three emergency management lessons he believed were learned from the many disasters that occurred in 2011. #1- Not all disasters come with warnings. Regardless of the type of disaster (flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake), we need to [...]