Does it really take a panel of experts to state the obvious?
I find it interesting to see terms like "unexpected". I would argue that most consequences may surprise us, but they were predictable. Why not form a panel to evaluate who [...]
Do We Lack The Will to Prepare?
Bobby Knight once said "The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." I have to wonder [...]
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. I have to wonder if the same holds true within the borders of [...]
If I Knew Then What I Know Now – 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Lessons Learned
I thought with flu season ahead of us in the northern half of the hemisphere it might be a good time for people to share what they learned from the [...]
The Surrender of Self Reliance
I spent some time in a developing nation recently and came away with a new appreciation for all that we have available to us in the United States and a [...]
The Emperor’s New Clothes – The Fallacy of Traditional Preparedness Programs Exposed at Y-12
Security was determined “excellent” and “good” in Y-12’s performance appraisal last year at a cost of $1.44 million. Yet on July 28, 2012 a 82 year old nun, who gets short of [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]