Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “disaster preparedness”
Donald Schmidt has 30 years of experience preparing for crises, and with Hurricane Earl still creating storms along the East coast we thought it was good timing to run an article by him regarding disaster preparedness in the latest Crisis Manager newsletter. A sampling: Hazard mitigation can substantially reduce the …
Officials at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo, ND, were recently rewarded for their crisis prevention efforts when they successfully evacuated 180 of their most delicate patients in the face of a raging blizzard. With a flood predicted, executive vice president Bruce Pitts was forced to make a move and, kept tight …
A definition of “insanity” popularly attributed to Albert Einstein is, “doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” So what, then, is “sanity”? It would seem to be “learning from our mistakes.” It only took eight years of the current administration for President Bush — and his …
I’m back in Southern California, where of course we NEVER need to be prepared…at least judging by how many people I know who don’t have even a couple of days of water available in case of earthquake, much less other essential supplies. I got a real kick out of my …
