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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 Wal-Mart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wal-Mart. Show all posts

Sunday, February 15, 2009

TORONTO STAR: Wal-Mart's glow-in-the-dark mystery

It began in late 2007 as a routine audit. Retail giant Wal-Mart noticed that some exit signs at the company's stores and warehouses had gone missing.

As the audit spread across Wal-Mart's U.S. operations, the mystery thickened. Stores from Arkansas to Washington began reporting missing signs. They numbered in the hundreds at first, then the thousands. Last month Wal-Mart disclosed that about 15,800 of its exit signs – a stunning 20 per cent of its total inventory – are lost, missing, or otherwise unaccounted for at 4,500 facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Poor housekeeping, certainly, but what's the big deal?

In a word: radiation.

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Saturday, January 31, 2009

NWA: WalMart Helps Out

Wal-Mart is definitely no stranger to dealing with natural disasters, but this latest storm hits close to home.

"These are our friends; these are our neighbors,” says Bryan Coon, Operations Manager for the Emergency Management Department.

But in order to help their neighbors, Emergency Management Department workers had a small problem to overcome: Getting to work.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

ISTOCKANALYST: Wal-Mart Probe Goes on Equipment Malfunction is Ruled Out in Germantown Evacuation

(Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)trackingBy DON BEHM

Germantown -- A malfunction of heating, cooling or ventilation equipment does not appear to be the cause of the Jan. 15 release of a chemical inside the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Appleton Ave. that forced an evacuation of the store and sent nearly 50 people to area hospitals for treatment of respiratory problems, Village Police Chief Peter Hoell said.

The possible intentional release of an unidentified substance inside the store remains the focus of a large-scale criminal investigation, Hoell said in an interview last week.

Both the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting Germantown police in what he described as "an extremely active" investigation.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

NOWPUBLIC: Crowd Control Wal-Mart's Responsibility, Police Say about Death

Mineola, NY - Rope lines, numbered tickets and walkie-talkies for employees could help control frenzied crowds such as those stampeding Wal-mart on Black Friday, say police, as they release recommndations two weeks after meeting with 75 Long Island retailers about how to stage major sales events safely.
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