Now that you have learned what you must do at home for you and your family to be prepared for emergencies and how to cope with an earthquake; the next next step is to develop your own neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Team. Here, again, the COPE (Citizens Organized to Prepare for [...]
"Disasterman", Matthew Davis, a social psychology professor at Dominican University, made an excellent presentation to kick off the "Is the End Near" lecture series at the Petaluma Museum last night that summarized his natural disaster courses with a focus on the effect they have on society and individual reactions. This [...]
Did you click on http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/pickcity.html as suggested in the previous Emergency Preparedness blog? What level of shaking did you find, for your neighborhood, for an earthquake along tbe San Andreas fault? The Hayward fault? The Rodgers Creek fault? As The Trio discovered, their home is located in an area of Petaluma [...]
Are you prepared? If the recent TV pictures of the Haiti earthquake and the heavy rain storms in California don’t scare you into getting prepared, I don’t know what other message it might take to convince you to “Be Prepared” to be on your own for 72 hours or longer. [...]
I just heard the official announcement changing the schedule for the Republican National Convention that was to begin in St. Paul (MN) on Monday; because of the pending emergency situation in the Gulf Coast region due to Hurricane Gustav. Here we go again, three years later. It's quite a coincidence [...]
Have you noticed the number of newspaper articles that describe the various natural disasters that have occurred recently? Tornados, floods, cyclones and earthquakes have struck somewhere on our planet and thousands of people have had their lives disrupted in one way or another. Both the human loss and property damage [...]