Residents of North Central Pennsylvania are invited to comment on the effectiveness of today's Weather Emergency Exercise in order to evaluate the effectiveness of communications.
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Did you receive timely notification of this morning's Test Exercise?
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Help Evaluate Mock Emergency Weather Exercise
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Seemed to be well organized, just one concern with all the flooding indicated unfortunately the Austin residents could not head to Coudy or Keating Summit we were told to go to Sinnemahoning??? A very long stretch of roadway that gets considerable flooding and takes quite a bit of time to reach. Just an opinion other than that very good job!!!!
Good practice drill.
Ulysses Boro - Never even knew about it until 11:30.
coudersport never heard a thing about this. where was the information posted?
HERE!
Not on line at work and knew nothing about this until I read about it on Solomons late this evening.
Contrary to popular belief...this BLOG site is not used by everyone in Potter County as a NEWS site....Heck...most of the hayseeds in the county don't even have internet yet....
Never knew it was going to happen, then the generator kicked on and all our computers at work shut down, then had trouble getting the network back. Then when we thought all was back online, it did it again. No one knew this was even going down, we just figured someone smacked a pole. It would have been nice if it would have been made known prior to just crashing everyone.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:48:00 PM EDT
I assume that means that you work at the hospital, or some other agency that participates with these yearly exercises. If that is the case, then I would also be willing to bet that there were some form of announcements made alerting the staff of the upcoming and ongoing exercise... Either way, "had this been an actual emergency, you would have been informed where to go and what to do in the event of such an emergency, " and probably would not have had a heads up for the real deal either. So consider yourself exercised...
By the way, for the last several years, these exercises have been held nation wide, during national severe weather preparedness week, so here is your HEADS UP for next year...
I for one think it is a great idea. It give the people that participate, especially at the EMA office, the opportunity to utilize the skills that they learn in classes so that when a real emergency does arise, they do not have to spend as much time trying to figure out how to do what needs to be done and more time actually doing it...
Hats off to you all that participate, practice and prepare for what will some day be the inevitable... It wasn't all that long ago that a Tornado wreaked havoc in this area, and you never know when it will happen again.
On the flip side of that coin...
The more that we can advertise this yearly event, and the more people that we can get to interact with it, the better it will be... Maybe the other local news media will get on board and start being as proactive as Jim is and help the EMA let people know in advance so that they can play a part too...
I know that Gerri gets involved, but no longer has a radio tower to broadcast her events, so if you don't have internet to see Jim or her, play by play interaction is limited. And you will be lucky to see anything about this at all in the Leader (why did they name it that, aren't they more like followers?)...
I'm rambling again...
Like I said, great job to all that participated. Every year more get on board. It is drills like this that save peoples lives on a regular basis in the mid-west, never hurts to be prepared, even if the event never comes it is better than being clueless if it does...
I never knew about this either... I don't get local tv ... only satellite reception, and they won't gve me any local stations. It's something to do with FCC rules. No cable outfits in my area either. I rely on local news here on Solomons, and online sites. But I can't be online all the time. Wish there was a way that there was a "reverse 911" in these mountains.
Actually, I believe that the Potter EMA is currently working on a system that is similar to the reverse 911 system that you mentioned.
Wouldn't it be better to not give anyone a warning of a test?
After all the test's purpose is to see how prepared people and agencies are for an emergency.
There's hardly ever a warning when an emergency is real.
btw Johnny The Flatlander, not everyone here may have internet, but everyone in this tri-county area knows what solomons is, and those that don't come here personally everyday will still hear about what is posted on this site from friends/family.
I don't think any publication in this area comes close to reaching as many people as solomon's, and that goes for the leader enterprise as well.
elec goes out -- we can kiss our bottoms goodbye -- how will anyone communicate?
watch the movie 2012. or any doomsday movie.
One has to realize if a big disaster hits one will need lots of CASH. Without electricity gas pumps wont work, food stores wont operate and banks would be closed. Generators may work for a short time, but not long if the disaster lasted for days.
Cash won't do you much good if every store is closed. Most of the stores sround here have invested in generators after the windstorm that we had a few years ago that took power out for a week.
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