COMMUNITY BASED EMERGENCY PREPARATIONS

  For the plan, see the next post below (or click "older posts").  For the complete plan, and how to organize, fund, and set up the database, contact me at the email address in the heading (bookemonsterslpl@gmail)  Are You Ready for an Emergency?    Disasters like floods, industrial accidents, tornadoes, and power grid failures can happen at any time. What if several happen at once? Our society depends on electricity, and most grocery stores only have three days' worth of food.    Make a Family Emergency Plan    Decide where to meet if disaster strikes or if you get separated. Choose a backup meeting spot in case the first location is unsafe. Plan for no phone or internet access—have a way to leave messages. Make sure everyone knows where gas and water shut off valves are and how to turn them off.   Check Your Neighborhood    Examine your neighborhood in a six-block radius. Ask yourself: Can local health centers and public b...

This can be adapted for any city or town .       Break the geographic area into 6 block sections.      Divide the population into units of 250, with smaller units of 50 and then 10 each.      This way you ensure that every area and every person is accounted for .  There will be some overlap .       City-wide coordination takes place through the "captains" (or whatever you choose to call them) of 250, and the neighborhoods through the smaller groups of 10 and 50.  The captains of 10 report to the captains of 50, and the 50s to the 250 .       Make sure there is back up in case a captain is absent.      There are different ways to coordinate with city officials, the police and first responders, and FEMA through larger groups of 1000 and 10,000, or by wards .  The police have a plan that works with FEMA where command centers are established throughout the city . ...