Hurricane Season Approaches-Prepare to Recover
June 1st will be the official start date of the 2018 hurricane season. The season, according to one forecast may see as many as 18 named storms, with one to five [...]
Cascadia Preparedness Check-up, Tune-up, Play Book Development or Exercise
Overview: A Cascadia earthquake and earthquake generated tsunami are going to happen. Geological evidence tells us this. Every day that it doesn't happen brings us closer to that day the [...]
Staying Open for Business When Others Close is Opportunity
I was reading an article in Business Insider about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a major storm. [...]
Recommendations to enhance your organization’s emergency preparedness in 2018.
It's a challenge to know where to devote planning, training and exercise time with so many competing demands, agendas and requirements. Consider this - people will fall back on two [...]
Talk is Cheap
I fly quite a bit. Enough on Delta that I can pretty much recite their safety briefing. But I still put down my paper, take my ear buds out or [...]
In an emergency or disaster, how important is your phone?
With the current smart devices most of us carry there is rarely a task we can't do on our phone that used to be reserved for our laptops. Agreed, I [...]
Disease Transmission 101 – Keeping You Safe From TSA
I could be upping my chances that this post will get me pulled out for “random” screening, but it’s a life safety issue. I fly quite a bit and participate [...]
Could These Teams Have Had a Role in Puerto Rico?
I’ve been involved in planning for a Cascadia earthquake/tsunami event and a New Madrid earthquake event so I know what a catastrophe will look like. I have not been involved [...]
Does Class Warfare Play Into Disaster Preparedness and Response?
Globally we know that the impoverished are disproportionately impacted by disasters both in direct affects and recovery. With the hurricane season of 2017 and the current struggles in Puerto Rico [...]
OK, You Gotta Get These Emergency Candles
Kevin Dawson a semi-retired fire-fighter got a hold of me through LinkedIn asking if I would take a look at his product. I am very picky when it comes to [...]