Consensus Standard Building – Pre-Event Generic After Action Report
In an attempt to help policy makers everywhere prevent allowing the same mistakes to be made on the next major event anywhere in the world, I propose the collective of [...]
Why Build a Rocket Ship When the Car in the Garage Just Needs Gas?
Government officials and all kinds of agencies experts from every county and state on the west coast are going on about the need to get ready for the tsunami debris. [...]
Protecting Social Normalcy – Is the Disaster Mitigation Benefit of Early Warning Really Disruption Neutral?
Social normalcy is a term to describe the efforts to return a community back to that pre-disaster conditions as soon as possible, both in terms of economic viability and letting [...]
Japanese Tsunami Victim Identification – Does it make sense to develop a data base now of missing persons to use in matching with any human remains discovered in washed ashore tsunami debris?
Over three thousand people remain missing, many of them children after the devastating tsunami in March of 2011. Debris which floats close to the surface and has been pushed by [...]
Poor Planning Equals Poor Performance
Sadly the year to prepare for the tsunami debris has been wasted and passed and now reaction will rule the day. Such a sad commentary on our touted NIMS and [...]
What is the tipping point of United States National strategic interests outweighing the interests of the citizens of the United States?
A recent revision to an Executive Order titled National Defense Resources Preparedness got me to thinking at what point do the interests of the citizens really matter when it comes [...]
Will We Take the Lessons of The Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami to Heart
When I view photos and video of devastated coastal communities in Japan due to the tsunami back in March of 2011 and then read an article of a coastal community [...]
Scientist Mutated H5N1 – Will it be deadly or defeated? Would You Get The Shot?
After scientists discovered the mutation sequencing necessary to make the virulent H5N1 virus transmissible to humans, the next logical step is to create a vaccine which at a minimum protects [...]
Whose Safety is Most Important- Really?
Ask this question of most public safety personnel and they will respond "my safety is most important, because if I am injured or killed, I can't do anyone any good", [...]
Mission Ready Packaging for EMAC Use- Tsunami Debris Field – Are You With Me?
I have been a proponent of development of an Incident Action Plan that would be agreed upon to be implemented by all parties (local, county, state, Native American, Inuit, Japan [...]