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An emergency manager trying to make a difference.

The name of the blog comes from a conversation with my daughter, where she told me that I was always looking to help people be prepared for the inevitable emergencies in life.

I started this blog as a place to assemble all the information that I was getting every day and to share my thoughts and ideas on emergency management.

I had no idea how much of the blog would wind up being what's in the news. While it does not take a lot to add a blog entry, I just did not realize how much of my day was involved with simply keeping up with what's going on. All of the posts, whether what's in the news or comments or just a piece of information, have a purpose; to get us thinking, to get us talking, and to make things better - in other words, to make a difference.

Hopefully this blog will save you some time and energy, or help you in some other way. If you would like to see something, please let me know.

Posting an article does not imply that I agree with the comments in the article. In fact, in many case, I do not agree, but feel that the comments should be part of the discussion. All opinions are welcome. I only ask that you remain considerate and professional of other opinions.

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Favorite Quotes for the Emergency Manager

  • “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “Failing to plan is planning to fail”
  • “Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” Denis Waitley
  • "Station 51, KMG365."
  • “One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold H. Glasgow
  • “An ostrich with its head in the sand is just as blind to opportunity as to disaster”
  • “The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.” Douglas MacArthur
  • “My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.” Buckminster Fuller
  • “Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part”
  • "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, ..." Rudyard Kipling
  • "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

Monday, January 19, 2009

AFP: Captain faces jail over Indonesian ferry disaster: police

PARE PARE, Indonesia (AFP) — The captain of a ferry that sank off Sulawesi island last week leaving up to 335 people dead is facing five years in jail for negligence, Indonesian police said Monday.

Only 35 people survived when the 700-tonne Teratai Prima sank on January 12 in heavy seas whipped up by a tropical storm in the Makassar Strait with up to 370 passengers and crew on board.

"The ferry captain, Sabir, faces a maximum jail sentence of five years," South Sulawesi district police chief Ruslan Nicolas said.

He said Sabir, employed by ferry operator PT Bunga Teratai, was in police custody and would be charged with negligence causing the death of another person.

Sabir has been accused of ignoring storm warnings when he set sail from Pare-Pare port on the afternoon of January 11 for the overnight journey to Samarinda, Borneo island.

Officials have said the weather was calm when the ferry left port but about 10 hours later it was hit by a severe storm with waves up to four metres (13 feet) high.

Survivors said most of the passengers were asleep at the time and the vessel sank so quickly that they had little chance of escape.

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