Tag: preparedness

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 […]

Staying Out Of Stranger Danger

What would your child do if they were home alone and there was a knock at the door? Or if they got a phone call from a stranger? It’s easy […]

All The News That’s Fit To Type

With a short week at work, it seems imperative to pack a whole lot of great info into the next three days of blogging. With that, I give you some […]

Disaster Preparedness In Urban Immigrant Communities

There’s a paper making it’s way around Red Cross circles that I thought might interest you preparedness junkies. Entitled “Disaster Preparedness in Urban Immigrant Communities: Lessons Learned from Recent Catastrophic […]

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 […]

Wearable Shelter? Or Parka?

As promised, here’s the first totally awesome item from MOMA’s SAFE: Design Takes On Risk exhibit — the Final Home 44-pocket parka. Designed as a wearable shelter, this parka features […]

SAFE: Design Takes On Risk

Let me say that the Museum of Modern Art’s SAFE: Design Takes On Risk exhibit is worth about 100 blog postings. But before I launch into the first of many, […]

So Did California Survive The Shakeout?

Yesterday was The Great Southern California Shakeout and I’ve been looking around for photos and coverage of what actually happened. Sadly, I can’t find much, but I’m hoping more reports […]

Teach Your Children Well…

While sorting through old Red Cross CDs, VHS tapes and cassettes here at the chapter, I unearthed an incredible relic.Hardly containing my 90’s nostalgia from the discovery, I picked up […]