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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
Showing posts with label Coast Guard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coast Guard. Show all posts

Sunday, March 22, 2009

BIG MEDICINE: Marking the one year anniversary of the sinking of the Alaska Ranger

Monday marks the one year anniversary of the sinking of the 189-foot fishing vessel Alaska Ranger in the Bering Sea. The crew of the Alaska Ranger was forced to abandon ship after the vessel began taking on water 120 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The ensuing rescue was the largest in recent Coast Guard history. Of the 47 crewmembers aboard the Alaska Ranger, 42 were rescued.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

USA TODAY: Report: Coast Guard focuses more on security

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard is cutting back on boat rescue missions as it shifts priority toward protecting waterways and stopping people from sneaking into the country, a new report says.

Since the 9/11 attacks, there has been a "clear trend toward emphasizing the homeland security missions" of the Coast Guard, the Homeland Security Department inspector general said in a report Thursday. That emphasis "will lead to continuing difficulty" for the Coast Guard in doing work not related to homeland security, such as improving boater safety and dealing with hazardous spills.

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN:

Hawaii is often considered a recreational boater's paradise compared to just about anywhere in the world.

Sailors come here from all points of the globe to "sail the winds of paradise," as our warm tradewinds are often called. And international anglers are well aware that the Big Island's Kona Coast is home to arguably the world's best fishing hole for catching giant Pacific blue marlin.

But because our state's major islands stretch from Hawaii in the southeast to Kauai and Niihau in the northwest, the prevailing northeast trades are at a right angle to the chain and tend to blow anything that is adrift away from land.

Subsequently, with nothing but open ocean to our southeast for thousands of miles, becoming lost at sea can become a reality to anyone on a vessel without power.

This is one of the reasons that emergency position-indicating radiobeacons, or EPIRBs, have become essential equipment aboard most vessels. They allow the Coast Guard to have a much better chance of finding those aboard satellite-tracked boats when an emergency arises.

All boat owners with EPIRBs though, should be aware of a recent announcement from the Coast Guard regarding these devices.

Those with the older analog EPIRBs that operate on 121.5 or 243 MHz -- who were advised in 2006 to discontinued their use as of January 2007 -- are reminded that beginning on Feb. 1, satellite processing of distress signals from these beacons will be terminated.

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