Amateur Radio Operator – the True Survivalist by David Malin If there is one thing this hobby teaches its students is personal preparedness. Amateur Radio operators, also called ham radio operators, are usually hobbyists in radio electronics that like to plan for the unexpected and naturally perform emergency drills and for power outages. Most [...]
By Tammy Lee Morris | Yahoo! Contributor Network A reactor at a Southern California nuclear power plant was shut down after a leak in a steam generator tube on Tuesday, Reuters reported. This incident came a day after WIFR reported a nuclear plant lost power and shut down in Byron, Ill., …
NOTE: This article by Stephen Box highlights the importance of the vulnerability of seniors in emergencies and I fully agree with it’s focus. I also agree so much more needs to be done but as an emergency manager I also know the issue is often discussed and addressed in meetings of organizations that are [...]
COPE Preparedness suggests that assembling a disaster-preparedness kit can be fun! We all know that those New Years resolutions make it to about the third week in January and then are forgotten as quickly as they are made. Maybe if we could make one of those resolutions just a little more fun, it …
By Kate Novick As it made its way up the East Coast during the last days of August, Hurricane-turned-Tropical-Storm Irene tested our resiliency. And then again, so did the freakish winter storm two months later in October, causing more severe impacts to Connecticut than Irene. We saw three-quarters of a million in Connecticut …
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