Tag: Disaster

Need Help? Call 2-1-1.

So we’ve talked before about 5-1-1 for weather info and how you’re not supposed to call 9-1-1 unless it’s a true medical emergency. By now, your head is surely swimming […]

How Busy Are We?

If you’ve been wondering about the lack of new content on the blog, it’s because we’ve been busy. Really busy. Just how busy are we? Well, here’s a note from […]

One Year Later: December 2007 Storms

Do you remember what you were doing a year ago this week? If you lived along Oregon’s coast, you could well have been stranded at home; stuck without power and […]

Disaster Trailers In The Daily Astorian

We’ve had some great coverage of the disaster trailers that have been delivered up and down the Oregon coast over the last few weeks. Extra special thanks to KOIN‘s Tim […]

Bob Porter: Why I Help

So are we allowed to play favorites when it comes to volunteers? I mean, they are all FABULOUS, but we can especially adore a couple of them, right? Right? Okay, […]

Ten PR Lessons From Hurricane Ike

I’ve been playing catch-up, and this morning it was time to go through the mail. In it I found the latest issue of Tactics, one of the publications put out […]

Chefs Master How To Deal With Disaster

I’m not normally an Esquire Magazine reader, but who doesn’t love knowing the Best New Restaurants of 2008? But the part of the issue that most interested me were the […]

Don’t Leave Home Without Your Documents

If you’ve been following the news about the California wildfires, you might have also seen that Governor Schwarzenegger has signed an executive order to waive fees for replacement documents for […]

Trouble the Water Comes to Portland

What do you have planned this weekend? If you’ve got nothing on your agenda, you might be interested in stopping by Cinema 21, where Trouble the Water — an award-winning […]