In both January and February, the City of Seattle sponsors a “Home Show” intended to give homeowners information about many aspects of home improvement and sustainability. While about half of the information tables are from the city, including inspections and permitting info, there’s a strong focus on sustainability with information tables about insurance, home retrofit […]
Read More »Delores Kannas, Hub Captain for the Alaska Junction Hub at Hope Lutheran Church, volunteered to lead a month long teaching series for students at Hope Lutheran High School. This was a class where the students selected the topic to participate in. She coached them through what risks we face in Seattle, how to be prepared, […]
Read More »A burst of energy that is – events for you to visit and learn more about preparedness. We had our first Hub Captains Network meeting of 2019 this week, and when all the hubs had shared their plans, it was clear that this will be a year you can really engage about preparedness. Here’s what’s […]
Read More »Hubs at multiple community events this summer Want to connect with your local hub and hub captain? Watch our calendar for information about which community festivals and events we will be at with information tables. We really want to meet people who are interested in community and personal preparedness; we learn best from each other […]
Read More »Hub Practice Sessions It’s a lot of work to do a hub practice session, getting out the field and practicing for a disaster. There’s time spent creating the scenario and exercise design itself, and there’s a huge investment of people time and energy on the day of the exercise. Why do we bother? Well, because […]
Read More »Kudos to the Seattle Office of Emergency Management for offering disaster preparedness training classes in multiple languages. In March, they taught a Disaster Skills class in Cantonese and in April one will be offered in Vietnamese at the High Point Library. FEMA has advocated for a “whole community” approach to disaster preparedness and engaging the […]
Read More »We had a great Hub Leadership Retreat in early Feb and have confirmed what our plans are for 2018. We will be holding our Hub Captain Meetings every other month (March, May, July, Sept, Nov), so that Hub Captains have more time to arrange for local meetings, trainings or work planning. We shifted […]
Read More »KING 5 has been interviewing people throughout Seattle on the topic of how well people and government agencies are prepared for a major disaster. Advertising has been that they will focus messaging on Monday, July 21 “all day, all screens”. They have also started releasing some background information early, please visit this link for 8 […]
Read More »Mark your calendars! Sharpen your pencils! Spiff up your acting skills! We are taking to the field again in July to practice our response skills – this time it will be a continuation of the Cascadia Rising Subduction Zone earthquake, on day six after “the big one”. 11 Hubs across the city will be participating. […]
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