Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools
Technical Assistance and Disaster plan

DON'T PANIC !!

WHAT TO DO. WHAT YOU NEED.

In 1876 back in the day, my home was a six-acre sugarcane plantation called "Diamond and Ruby" where I lived with two cats Friday and Guavaberry. All the Great Houses had wonderful names like that and have survived countless hurricanes.
I've lived through 2 of them, named Frederick and David which devastated St.Croix in 1979. I then relocated stateside to San Diego, CA with my two cats. Imagine, the first thing that happened in my new home in San Diego was Mount St. Helen's blew up. Take my advice, this is what you need to know to get prepared and live through disasters.

8 THINGS K-12 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, AND PARENTS NEED TO KNOW

NSA : High School Concept Development Units
The National Security Agency (NSA) has worked to craft these educational materials they are calling "concept development units" (CDUs). The units are divided into 11 sections, including Algebra, Calculus, and Data Analysis. Clicking on each of these sections will bring up a complete list of all the CDUs currently available. Each list offers a paragraph-long description of each activity, along with an indication of the appropriate grade level for each activity. Some of the activities include "Understanding Proportions and Scale Drawings," "Scatter Brained," "Fashion Sense and Dollar Wise" and "Squares in the Light." These are all terrific resources for educators, and the site also contains links to information about the Math and Related Sciences Camp (MARS) sponsored by the National Security Agency and links to other educational centers.

REMS TA CENTER Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center!

FIND H1N1 FLU SHOTS NEAR YOU

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) began administering the REMS (formerly, Emergency Response and Crisis Management) discretionary grant program in October 2003 to help school districts develop comprehensive plans for any emergency or crisis, including natural disasters, pandemic influenza, violent incidents, and terrorist acts.

OSDFS PREVENTION NEWS BULLETIN PreventED listserv

If you are interested in receiving prevention education information and opportunities, you are now able to self-enroll to receive the OSDFS PREVENTION NEWS BULLETIN. The purpose of this listserv is to provide a timely information outlet for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program and is now available to the public. The LISTSERV content may include information on prevention education issues, legislation, and OSDFS, and other Federal Programs grant opportunities.

1. LEAVE TOWN

Train out, drive out, or fly out (if the planes are still taking off) and take your pets with you.

2. Go to high ground

You will not have any food, medicine, clean water , fuel, electricity, escape, clothes, ice, a roof over your head, disinfectant, bathroom, sleep, phone, cell phone , generator, gasoline, air conditioning, schools, tv, books, computer, email, internet, national guard, navy, police, income, insurance , a job . . .

Donate Computers or get a free one.

HUMOR:

A flood came and a man had to climb onto the roof of his house. As the waters rose a neighbor in a rowboat appeared, and told him to get in. "No," replied the man on the roof, "the Lord will save me." Then a firefighter appeared in a speedboat. "Climb in!" shouted the firefighter. "No," replied the man on the roof, "The Lord will save me." A helicopter appeared and the pilot shouted that he would lower a rope to the man on the roof. "No," replied the man on the roof, "the Lord will save me." Eventually the man drowned and went to heaven, where he asked God why He hadn't helped him. "I sent a neighbor, a firefighter, and helicopter," said God. "What more do you want?"

"Somebody asked Bush what he thought about Roe v. Wade. He said didn't care how people got out of New Orleans."

HOME
72 HOUR KIT

Get a " 72-hour kit " in a backpack that could help you survive for 72 hours until rescued or able to return home. It should contain a change of clothes, important medications, food and water. If you google " 72 hour kits " you will find lots of websites on how to make them or where to buy ready-made ones.

Your home 72-hour kit should contain at least the following items:

  • One gallon of water per person per day. This means at least three gallons of water per person.
  • Sufficient non-perishable food for three days. Ideally, these foods will be lightweight and high in energy. If you pack canned foods, remember a can opener!
  • Prescription and non-prescription medications. Include a spare set of glasses, if you need them.
  • Battery powered portable radio. This may be your only source of information during a disaster.
  • First aid kit. The small camping kits work well. Remember to get enough supplies for the number of people who may be using them.
  • Personal hygiene items.
  • Clothing and bedding. A spare pair of socks and a space saver blanket would be a minimum.
  • Special items such as baby needs or contact lens supplies, etc.
  • Personal comfort items. Books, games, personal electronics, etc.

A Complete List

  • Aluminum foil
  • Antacid tablets
  • Aspirin & non-aspirin pain relievers *
  • Cash, spare change *
  • Change of clothing *
  • Chlorine bleach
  • Comfort items - Books, cards, hard candy *
  • Contact lens supplies or glasses, if needed *
  • Disinfectant
  • Food (see below for examples) *
  • Maps - city and county
  • Matches in weatherproof container *
  • Mess kit-Disposable plates/utensils
  • Needles and thread
  • Paper and pencils/pens *
  • Paper towels
  • Personal hygiene items *
  • Plastic garbage bags *
  • Prescription drugs *
  • Rain gear
  • Signal flares
  • Soap
  • Sturdy shoes or boots *
  • Toilet paper *
  • Towels *

Food and Water Supply Examples per Person

  • Apple Juice: 2 - 7.5 oz. cans (flip top)
  • Granola Bars: 2 bars
  • Mixed Fruit: 2 - 4.5 oz. cans
  • Pork and Beans: 2 - 8 oz. cans
  • Peanut Butter: One small jar
  • Smoked or dried meats (beef-jerky)
  • Tuna: 2 - 3.25 oz. cans
  • Unsalted crackers: 4 oz.
  • Bottled spring water: 3 gallons

Purchase Order/Donations

TOOLS:

  • Adjustable wrench, 10in
  • Bolt cutters
  • Camp hatchet
  • Chisel
  • Claw hammer
  • Crow bar, 18"
  • Folding shovel
  • Hacksaw & blades
  • Nylon tool bag
  • Pliers
  • Screwdriver set
  • Short handle sledge hammer

SUPPLIES:

  • Battery operated radio *
  • Can opener (non-electric)
  • Candles
  • Compass
  • Duct tape
  • Dust masks *
  • Emergency solar blankets *
  • Extra batteries
  • First aid kit (complete)
  • Flashlights *
  • Leather palmed work gloves
  • Lightsticks *
  • Plastic Sheeting
  • Rope, 100 ft x ½ in
  • Safety glasses or goggles *
  • Signal Flares
  • Tarp
  • Utility/camp knife
  • Whistles *
  • Wool blankets

* Every employee should have a kit that includes at least one each of these items

ADMINISTRATION KIT

Pack in a portable, weather-resistant container (backpacks work well):

  • Personnel roster/phone numbers
  • Disaster response manual and facility map
  • First aid kit and manual
  • Battery operated radio
  • Master keys on neck lanyard
  • 2-way radios/extra batteries
  • 8 D cell and 16 AA batteries
  • 4 whistles
  • 4 flashlights
  • 4 pairs of leather palmed gloves
  • 4 pairs of safety glasses or goggles
  • 4 emergency (solar) blankets
  • 4 light sticks (8-12 hr.)
  • 8 dust masks
  • 2 rolls of 2" masking tape
  • 1 roll of duct tape
  • 1 box of 30 gallon garbage bags
  • 2 rolls of toilet paper
  • 1 roll of paper towels
  • 1 small box of plastic cutlery
  • Food and water supply *

* Food and Water Supply Examples O ne Person

  • Apple Juice: 2 - 7.5 oz. cans (flip top)
  • Granola Bars: 2 bars
  • Mixed Fruit: 2 - 4.5 oz. cans
  • Pork and Beans: 2 - 8 oz. cans
  • Peanut Butter: One small jar
  • Smoked or dried meats (beef jerky)
  • Tuna: 2 - 3.25 oz. cans
  • Unsalted crackers: 4 oz.
  • Drinking water

Some other examples :

The Do-It-Yourself Emergency Management Guide!

DONATE TO CHARITY AND WHAT TO EXPECT

Southern California Earthquake Data Center
map of the region that features information on recent earthquakes in California and Nevada. Learn about the local faults and recent activity along each fault.

NATIONAL HERITAGE RESPONDERS

The NHR is a highly skilled team of conservators and other collections care professionals with expertise in emergency response for cultural heritage collections. The team responds to the needs of cultural institutions during emergencies and disasters through coordinated efforts with first responders, state agencies, vendors and the public. Cultural heritage institutions affected by Hurricane Harvey are encouraged to call the NHR hotline for advice and referrals. All assistance provided by the National Heritage Responders is free, funded by grants and generous donations to the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation. The NHR are available and ready to assist those collecting institutions impacted by this historic storm.
Please call our hotline at 202-661-8068 or
e-mail nhr@conservation-us.org

Rebecca Elder Coordinator National Heritage Responders Rebecca@elderpreservationcom
Direct: 512-699-3494

Historic Preservation Division of FEMA
Public Assistance teams meet with applicants for relief. That's when we evaluate what is requested for remuneration.
Richard Vidutis, PhD
RECORDATIONS, LLC Historical and Cultural Research
205 Yoakum Parkway, #1105 Alexandria, VA 22304
301-233-0651 (C)

Additional Disaster Preparedness Resources

Disaster Resources

Disaster Resources

Southern California Earthquake Data Center
map of the region that features information on recent earthquakes in California and Nevada. Learn about the local faults and recent activity along each fault.

EARTHQUAKES BRING ATTENTION TO SEISMICALLY UNSAFE SCHOOLS
In the wake of the disastrous collapse of over 7,000 "classrooms" and the death of 10,000 students (estimates are closely controlled by the Chinese government) in China after May 12's devastating earthquake, American seismologists are assessing the sturdiness of schools in the U.S., writes Andrew Revkin in the New York Times blog Dot Earth. The Pacific Northwest, especially, seems vulnerable. According to Yumei Wang, geohazards team leader for the state of Oregon, approximately 1,300 schools there have "a very high probability of collapse." Washington State is similarly vulnerable. Wang states that "what are sorely needed are long-term, institutionalized, government-funded programs to help school districts mitigate their high-occupancy, collapse-prone schools." Oregon is establishing a grant program to do this, but Wang cautions that the retrofitting of schools and other critical infrastructure will take decades and could cost up to $2 billion. Read From Sichuan to Oregon Schools at Risk

1906 Earthquake Disaster

9/11 World Trade Disaster

CELL PHONES

The main problem is no communication. Connectivity and telecommunications will breakdown.

Trusting cell phones to work in many emergency situations can be dangerous or fatal.

Iridium trumpets latest satellite phones for emergency response
Just a month before the official U.S. hurricane season begins on June 1, Iridium Satellite LLC today unveiled satellite telephone communications equipment that will interoperate with existing UHF and VHF radio systems already used by police, rescue agencies, firefighters and other first responders. The Iridium systems offer interoperable voice and data communications, will work anywhere and are portable, according to the company. The data services include integration of radio frequency identification tags to help track vehicles, supplies and personnel wirelessly during emergencies so that response efforts can be monitored. Iridium, Satellite telephone handsets are priced at about $1,500 each, while a fixed base station that can be used in a rescue facility costs about $3,000, including an external antenna. Small mobile wireless modems that can be attached to vehicles and supply containers for wireless tracking cost about $500 each if tracking capabilities are to be deployed. The equipment can be used with solar chargers so it can be recharged when power is out, or vehicle battery charger adapters can be used.

Friends,
I am the secretary of the international cellular emergency alert services association (CEASa). I noticed your discussion about cell broadcasting and thought you might like to know that our group is now working with FEMA on the deployment of cell brodcast for public information purposes just as you have discussed. By the way I want to congratulate you on understanding it so well, when many seem confused about what it is. See our website at www.ceasa-int.org for more details, or dont hesitate to write to me for more information. We are currently working on Washington DC, Kansas and New Orleans.
Warm regards,
Mark Wood From: Mark Wood <mark.wood@engineer.com> Date: April 13, 2006 4:18:38 PM EDT

GET

Emergency Email & wireless network GET BREAKING WEATHER sent to your Wireless Palm & Email THEN Click on your State.

1. Pre-paid cell phone cards some cell phone users will able to make outgoing calls, but can't receive calls.

2. BUY SATELITE CONNECTIONS

3. Buy satellite phones to ensure that communications remain in place. High end stars at $1,000 used, and $20 a day to rent. Low as $300 used or $45 a week to rent. If you're heading to an ultraremote location, be sure to bring along a solar-powered battery charger (about $40). Choose a provider. Satellite telecommunications companies such as Globalstar USA and Iridium Satellite offer competitive plans and varied coverage zones.

4. generator / fuel

5. more batteries

6. radio

An April, 2004 report by the Government Accounting Office:
" The wireless communications used today by many public officers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel, and other public safety agencies do not provide [the ability] ... to effectively carry out their normal duties and respond to extraordinary events." There are approx. 3.2 million emergency responders in the United States. THE PROBLEM is that police departments, fire departments and EMT services don't want others sharing their spectrum This has always been about control: do the police control the spectrum? This is about first responders solving turf wars and deploying digital technology to use their spectrum more efficiently. Communication Networks for Humans

COMMUNICATION CENTERS

April 13th - 19th National Public Safety Telecommunications Week
The lesson is that even the most modern communications technology can fail, and that there is still value in having an independent communications infrastructure, especially when it costs the community little or nothing to maintain it. Dedicated Amateur radio operators assist local, state and federal workers by providing needed communications services both in the region and also to other parts of the US. ~ Andrew Seybold (W6AMS)

Animal Emergency and Disaster Planning Information

Animal Emergency and Disaster Planning Information

Companion Animals
Pets, information for pet owners; Disaster preparedness; Animal safety; Dog and cat CPR; Pet poison prevention; and more.

Farm Animals
Farm animal rescue; Disaster preparedness for livestock including horses; Animal health. Accidents and livestock; Poisonous plants database; Carcass disposal; and more.

Research Animals
Disaster planning for animal facilities; and more.

Zoo, Circus and Marine Animals
Disaster planning; Training modules; Guidelines for police officers responding to animal incidents; Poison and pesticide information; and more.

Disaster plan - The Federal Goverment

Disaster plan - The Federal Goverment


Federal Protective Service (FPS)

will show up to provide law enforcement and security services to all federally owned and leased facilities nationwide. FPS focuses directly on the interior security of the nation and the reduction of crimes and potential threats to federal facilities. They secure federal properties like courthouses, federal office buildings, but not ordinary citizens.

National Center for Disaster Fraud at (866) 720-5721 or emailed to disaster@leo.gov. Information can also be faxed to (225) 334-4707.

Federal Contractor Misconduct Database http://www.contractormisconduct.org/

National Center for Disaster Fraud to Coordinate Hurricane Irene Fraud Complaints FEMA's Disaster Registration

America's Vulnerable Cities - These articles are especially instructive, particularly as to the difficulties of evacuation.

BUT to do that on the website you must be JavaScript Enabled and use Internet Explorer version 6 or call 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or (TTY) 1-800-462-7585 to register." Fema Rap for Kids - no kidding!

Homeland Security Emergencies & Preparing America

Homeland Security National Response Plan

The NRP establishes policies, procedures, and mechanisms for proactive Federal response to catastrophic events. Implementation of Proactive Federal Response Protocols are for catastrophic events involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosive weapons of mass destruction, or large magnitude earthquakes or other natural or technological disasters in or near heavily populated areas.

You will have Looters. Police will also loot and Scammers that are not real charities.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on
9 December 1948.

FEMA - mapping and analysis center

Everyone needs to vote. Government policies have life and death consequences. This is about the real consequences of what governments do and do not do about their responsibilities. And we pay the price for those policies. State and local officials do not think that have to plan because they assume FEMA is in charge, and FEMA doesn't think it has to be a first responder because that is not their mission. March 2003: FEMA is downgraded from a cabinet level position and folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is refocused on fighting acts of terrorism. FEMA's preparation and planning functions are reassigned to a new Office of Preparedness and Response. FEMA will henceforth focus only on response and recovery.
Remember, we don't have one government. We have 50 separate governments, and one federal government to help them interoperate. We can't solve every problem at the federal level. You have to be ready to save yourself and then help your neighbor.

"This American Life." http://thislife.org public radio program source
FEMA Had Authority to Act, even without Emergency Declaration
William Nicholson, author of the books "Emergency Response and Emergency Management Law" and "Homeland Security Law and Policy" says that once the governor asks for help, and the president declares a state of emergency, the feds basically have the broad powers to do what's necessary. And, he says, even if the President hadn't declared a state of emergency, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Chertoff, could have acted. There's this whole newfangled way for him to take emergency powers under something called the National Response Plan. Nicholson: "Well, basically, the way it works is, the Secretary of Homeland security designates this as a catastrophic incident, and federal resources deploy to preset federal locations or staging areas, and, so they don't even have to have a local or state declaration in order to, uh, move forward with this."
Glass: In other words, it doesn't matter what the governor says, it doesn't matter what the local people say, basically, once that happens, they can just go ahead and do, what needs to be done to fix the problem.
Nicholson: That's correct. It's utterly clear that they had the authority to preposition assets and to significantly accelerate the federal response.
Glass: And they didn't need to wait for the state? Nicholson: They did *not* need to wait for the state.
According to the nations disaster response plan, the Federal government could have activated special powers to push their assets into affected areas without waiting for state requests. This, despite administration claims that they were forced to follow the states lead. (The powers were never invoked, needless to say.)


DHS failed to use catastrophe response plan in Katrina's wake By Chris Strohm
The Homeland Security Department did not use a plan for handling catastrophes in its response to Hurricane Katrina, even though some officials say that doing so could have saved lives and brought the chaotic situation in New Orleans under control.
The department didn't activate a section of the National Response Plan that deals specifically with responding to catastrophes, DHS spokesman Russ Knocke confirmed this week. The section -- called the Catastrophic Incident Annex -- is tucked deep within the 426-page plan, which was published last December.
The Catastrophic Incident Annex, however, gives the federal government special powers, including the ability to bypass state governments. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff or one of his designees has to approve use of the annex.
That was not done during Hurricane Katrina. Instead, the federal government and state of Louisiana got caught up in negotiations over what kind of federal assistance would be provided in the first few days after the storm hit, while thousands of people were stranded in New Orleans and others died in hospitals, nursing homes and their houses.

DONATE TO CHARITY AND WHAT TO EXPECT

Make sure you are giving to a legitimate charitable organization.

Southern California Earthquake Data Center
map of the region that features information on recent earthquakes in California and Nevada. Learn about the local faults and recent activity along each fault.

If you can it is a good idea to help get supplies listed below to volunteer organizations . Find Volunteer opportunities, displaced students, colleges taking students, charitable giving, animal rescue, missing persons, temporary housing, flood control, levee management, gas prices, environmental factors, news sites, maps and images, and much more. Donate Computers or get a free one.

HUMOR:

A flood came and a man had to climb onto the roof of his house. As the waters rose a neighbor in a rowboat appeared, and told him to get in. "No," replied the man on the roof, "the Lord will save me." Then a firefighter appeared in a speedboat. "Climb in!" shouted the firefighter. "No," replied the man on the roof, "The Lord will save me." A helicopter appeared and the pilot shouted that he would lower a rope to the man on the roof. "No," replied the man on the roof, "the Lord will save me." Eventually the man drowned and went to heaven, where he asked God why He hadn't helped him. "I sent a neighbor, a firefighter, and helicopter," said God. "What more do you want?"

"Somebody asked Bush what he thought about Roe v. Wade. He said didn't care how people got out of New Orleans."

The Do-It-Yourself Emergency Management Guide!

Hurricane Disaster plan

Hurricane Disaster plan

Track the Weather Now!

Google Hurricane Response:
http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/faq.html

!!! 2017 RED CROSS ASKS HAM RADIO OPERATORS FOR HELP please email
ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U
or (860-594-0222), who will make the introduction of qualified volunteers to ARC.

Puerto Rico is still a victim of colonial neglect
A three-star star general and the Commander of US Army North (5th Army), Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO COMMAND WITH THE FULL AUTHORITY TO GET IT DONE - CUT THE RED TAPE - to make decisions quickly without having to check with 18 agencies. The military said it is planning to deploy the USNS Comfort hospital ship to assist with FEMA's response efforts. The Comfort is a seagoing medical treatment facility "capable of providing resuscitation and stabilization care; initial wound and basic surgery; and postoperative treatment," according to the US Navy.

9/29/17 Army Lt. Gen. Jeff Buchanan 'Not enough' troops, equipment in Puerto Rico, says general in charge of relief. "For example, on the military side, we're bringing in both Air Force, Navy, and Army medical capabilities in addition to aircraft, more helicopters. ... [But] it's not enough, and we're bringing more in.” The Pentagon has already allocated more than 4,000 troops to help in rescue and restoration efforts to the U.S. territories, but it wasn't until Thursday, eight days after Maria slammed the Caribbean , that U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) sent Buchanan.

WHY THE STUPID 8 DAY WAIT?

“It didn't require a three-star general eight days ago,” Tom Bossert, the President Trump's homeland security advisert said of the government response. When asked whether it was a mistake to not have Buchanan on the ground in Puerto Rico earlier, Bossert replied, “No, not at all.”

San Juan mayor: "I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying." "I am going to do what I never thought I would do. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying. The mayor of San Juan (Carmen Cruz) lost her house and has been living in a shelter.

  • 95% w/o electricity
  • More than 10,000 in shelters
  • 51 hospitals open
  • 11% cell towers working
  • 714 gas stations

THE PRESIDENT FINALLY AUTHORIZES BUCHANAN THE HEAD OF NOTHCOM'S JOINT FORCE LAND COMPONENT COMMAND TO BE IN COMMAND - THEY ARE NOT A PARTNER OF FEMA. IT SHOULDN'T TAKE 8 DAYS TO SAVE THE AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS AND PUERTO RICO.
The military will focus on trying to improve distribution networks of relief supplies and offer the logistical authority for the supply chain and recovery efforts.

9/17 White House waives a shipping law called the Jones Act for Puerto Rico for 10 days which allows foreign ships to get supplies to the port. Lawmakers say Trump's 10 day shipping waiver is not enough. It's unacceptable @DHSgov denied #JonesAct waiver for #PuertoRico. I sent a letter urging the dept to change course. @SenJohnMcCain

Perhaps Tom Price, who ostensibly runs "Health and Human Services," could load his private plane w/medical supplies and fly to Puerto Rico.

ON THE 2ND DAY THE US MILITARY COULD HAVE HAD 20,000 US TROOPS ON THE GROUND IN PUERTO RICO ~ GEN RUSSEL HONORE COMMANDER OF HURRICAN KATRINA RESPONSE

10/9/17 White House lets Puerto Rico Jones Act waiver expire Ten days after issuing a waiver allowing foreign ships to provide aid to Puerto Rico, the Trump administration has let it expire. Trump was previously criticized for hesitating to suspend the century-old Jones Act, which prohibits foreign ships from bringing goods from one U.S. port to another, for Puerto Rico immediately after Hurricane Maria — particularly because he had issued such waivers following Harvey and Irma. Much of Puerto Rico is still short on fuel and water, though that is due in part to distribution issues rather than a lack of supplies.

Puerto Rico is occupied without representation . Neither independent, nor a US state, it has no Presidential or Congressional influence. It is politically abandoned and treated accordingly. Trump administration is making citizens pay "full fare" to be evacuated from hurricane. And will hold the evacuees' passports as collateral until it gets it's money. That's not all: “Upon evacuation, a Department of State official must limit an evacuee's passport. In order to obtain a new passport, an evacuee must arrange payment as agreed upon via the promissory note.”

Aerial footage shows the damage caused to St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands by Hurricane Maria #USVirginIslands Duncan USVI Relief #USVI

Simultaneous Restoration Work Continues On All Three Islands, WAPA Makes Known In Latest Update and here

IDENTITIES OF THOSE WHO DIED AS DIRECT RESULT OF HURRICANES IRMA AND MARIA RELEASED BY D.O.J.

Register for assistance with FEMA. Virgin Islanders who have not yet registered can do so online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov, in Spanish at www.DisasterAssistance.gov/es, or by phone at 800-621-3362 or (TTY) 800-462-7585. Those who use 711-Relay or Video Relay Services may call 800-621-3362. The toll-free telephone numbers operate from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. (local time) seven days a week until further notice. Operators are standing by to assist survivors in English, Spanish and many other languages.

[Hurrican Sandy] "A major hurricane is unlikely in New York City, but not impossible" New York City Office of Emergency Management.

How to hurricane-proof a Web server

How Hurricane Sandy routes around the Internet - The affected area also happens to contain major hubs for international Internet connectivity. When looking at cable maps (for instance Greg's Cable Map ), it immediately becomes clear the affected area is key for Internet communications between North America and Europe. Two major hubs for international Internet communications in the affected area are the New York City (NYC) and Washington DC/Ashburn area (ASH). In this article we look at IPv4 traceroutes by RIPE Atlas probes that traverse paths through the affected area and what it can tell us about the impact Hurricane Sandy had on the wider Internet.

This was the City of New Orleans' Hurricane Preparedness Plan

School buses needed to help with evacuation

Heavy rains fell over the Mid Mississippi Valley in April of 1927 which flooded down to the lower Mississippi Valley. The river broke through 13 levees along the river which caused widespread flooding that encompassed 26,000 square miles. The catastrophe caused more than a thousand deaths and forced almost a million people from their homes . More than five million acres of farmland were ruined. The flooding occurred from April until June.
KRVS , a public radio station in Lafayette broadcasts in English, Creole and Cajun French where you can find music and research about previous natural disasters, from the devastating Mississippi River flood of 1927 to Hurricane Betsy in 1965. NPR did a story on this with songs.

HURRICANE PREDICATION IS NOT PERFECT
In the Gulf region, forecasters can only tell you 36-72 hours in advance that a hurricane is headed toward a region. At that point, a hurricane's strike zone is several hundred miles wide. "Forecasters cannot come close to predicting a storm's landfall accurately beyond 24 hours. Three days before a hurricane hits, the official forecast can be off by as much as 250 miles in either direction -- the distance from New Orleans to a point between Pensacola and Panama City, Fla., to the east and Beaumont, Texas, to the west.

Flood Waters Can't Sink Net Link
http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68725,00.html

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank - in case you forget what we are talking about! compelling images and stories seared into the memories of all who lived through them.

Hurricane Katrina Time Line

Hurricane Katrina Commentary

The "city" of Louisiana (Keith Olbermann) 9/5, 2005
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/205428/2030

Hurricane Katrina-Our Experiences by Larry Bradshaw, Lorrie Beth Slonsky The two writers were paramedics who were in NO for an EMS conference.

Swimming to New Orleans By Nick Glassman senior manager of programming for MediaFLO at Qualcomm, Inc. September 9, 2005,

Google Maps has updated satellite imagery of Katrina in New Orleans . people are posting addresses, and others are downloading NOAA sat images, overlaying, and posting images to show degree of flooding. For example: Bad shape and Not-so-bad shape
If you do have Google Earth, this is an interesting overlay that shows the damage ratings the Federal Government has given to various areas. The data is dated 6PM Sept 5 .

Love Canal-type landfill submerged in New Orleans floodwaters .

The Agriculture Street Landfill (ASL) A toxic landfill is situated on a 95-acre site in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. The ASL is a federally registered Superfund site, and is on the National Priorities List of highly contaminated sites requiring cleanup and containment. The situation could exacerbate the already dire threat to human health and the environment from the flood waters.

Hurricane, Typoon, Earthquake Weather Disaster Emergency Communication

Hurricane, Typoon, Earthquake Weather Disaster Emergency Communication

The main problem is no communication.
Connectivity and telecommunications will breakdown.

YOUR ONLY HOPE IS TO FIND A HAM RADIO OPERATOR

2017 Hurricane Irma versus 1989 Hurricane Hugo

HURRICANE #Irma- TECHNOLOGY CELL PHONE FAIL use HAM RADIO!

!!! 2017 RED CROSS ASKS HAM RADIO OPERATORS FOR HELP HELP HELP please email ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U
or (860-594-0222), who will make the introduction of qualified volunteers to ARC.

GET DIESEL FUEL TO KEEP GENERATORS RUNNING.

2017 ARRL Force of 50 volunteers on the island of Puerto Rico distributed more new Amateur Radio gear to places where it will do the most good. Puerto Rico Section Emergency Coordinator Juan Sepulveda, KP3CR, is better prepared to assist, now that volunteers have delivered a radio and antenna to him in Lares. “This now gives us a local ham covering the Lares Medical Center and the hospital, so our ARRL American Red Cross Amateur Radio operator can cover the Casteñel hospital nearby,” ARC volunteer Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L, noted in the team's October 8 report. Sepulveda has been coordinating the ARES efforts on the west side of the island since the start of the recovery.

Puerto Rico Amateur Radio Volunteer Force Deploys New Equipment

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Cell Phones Fail

The same thing happens every time there is a crisis in a large city. During large-scale crises this vital lifeline is all-too-frequently cut off. The culprit is usually congestion. During a disaster, call volumes spike and overwhelm the over-subscribed capacity of wireless carriers' networks. On September 11, 2001, fewer than 1 in 20 mobile phone calls in New York City was connected. The same thing happened after the August 2011 earthquake that shook the East Coast. And in Boston during the Boston Marathon bombing. But, as we learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy , wireless carriers have also neglected to harden their networks against extended losses of electrical power. Thousands of towers were knocked offline in the New York region alone when backup batteries failed. Yet as a member of Governor Andrew Cuomo's NYS Ready Commission this fall, I was stunned to learn that wireless carriers had never formally discussed plans with the region's electric utilities to restore power to cell sites after a major disaster. Despite our utter dependency on cellular networks, the industry has failed to act substantially to improve the reliability of these systems. These companies have sold American consumers a digital lifeline without honoring their responsibility to assure it works at our time of greatest need.

Cyber criminals tying up emergency phone lines through TDoS attacks. Similar to DDoS attacks, TDoS also used to extort cash from targets, including businesses and public service agencies. Emergency-service providers and other organizations are being targeted with TDoS (telephony denial of service) attacks, according to a security alert from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI

Superstorm Sandy wreaks havoc on internet infrastructure
If it did [wreak havoc on the internet], then the fewer and fewer larger and larger communications conglomerates that control more and more of it have damn-well FORGOTTEN its original design goal (during the cold war): to withstand an extensive nuclear attack! To detect failures and route around them - as John Gilmore (and others) described it (when some net-naive university administrators tried to censor "undesirable" content ;-).


Almost every cell phone available today is able to send and receive SMS text messages. SMS infrastructure generally holds up better in times of crisis than email, and it automatically appears on your phone's screen when you receive one.

WHERE TO FIND OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING

National Hurricane Center Hurricane Cat 1,2,3,4,5
NOAA's National Geodetic Survey - Satellite images Joint Typhoon
Warning Center
NOAA WEATHER UPDATES
NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER 		CARIBBEAN LIVE REPORTS
Cyclone Watchers Hurricane Chasers
Hourly Weather for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Center
Weather channel NASA Weather Forecast

Trusting cell phones to work in many emergency situations can be dangerous or fatal.

School Emergency Email

Emergency notification broadcasts : If you are a government agency or nonprofit community service: (local, state, or federal) and you want to be able to send emergency notification broadcasts on the Emergency Email Network to citizens in your area please click here.

School Directory School Directory

GET

Emergency Email & wireless network GET BREAKING WEATHER sent to your Wireless Palm & Email -- then Click on your State.

Buy satelite connections

1. Pre-paid cell phone cards some cell phone users will able to make outgoing calls, but can't receive calls.

2. Buy satellite phones to ensure that communications remain in place. High end stars at $1,000 used, and $20 a day to rent. Low as $300 used or $45 a week to rent. If you're heading to an ultraremote location, be sure to bring along a solar-powered battery charger (about $40). Choose a provider. Satellite telecommunications companies such as Globalstar USA and Iridium Satellite offer competitive plans and varied coverage zones.

3. generator / fuel

4. more batteries

5. radio

Tech manufacturing: A disaster waiting to happen
By Peter Cochrane June 18, 2012
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cio-insights/tech-manufacturing-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/39748883
Takeaway: The manufacture of technology, along with its essential raw materials, is now concentrated in a single region. This lack of resilience leaves the industry dangerously vulnerable to disruption. Written in at Abu Dhabi airport and despatched to TechRepublic via a free 23Mbps free wi-fi service.
Historically, mature markets settle down with three big competing suppliers and a handful of niche players. This rule of three has tended to dominate regions such as North America, Europe and south-east Asia. But since globalisation took hold, geographic diversity has become distorted along with the resilience of supply.
Examples of a growing supply-chain brittleness include manufacturers temporarily denuded of LCD screens, memory chips and batteries by fires, a tsunami, and industrial problems. With only a few plants located in south-east Asia, we are running the gauntlet of man-made and natural disasters.
Underpinning this limited number of suppliers are the producers of vital rare earths and other basic components. So we now have a concatenation of limited sourcing and manufacture in the supply chain concentrated in just one region. These set of circumstances amount to a major disaster just waiting to happen.
The 10 dominant contract manufacturers
So what of our electronics and computing power? Is the situation any better for the PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones? Today, all these devices are produced by just 10 dominant contract manufacturers. This small group is spearheaded by Foxconn of Taiwan , which manufactures for Apple, Dell, HP, Acer, Sony, Nokia, Intel, Cisco, Nintendo and Amazon among others.

Iridium trumpets latest satellite phones for emergency response
Just a month before the official U.S. hurricane season begins on June 1, Iridium Satellite LLC today unveiled satellite telephone communications equipment that will interoperate with existing UHF and VHF radio systems already used by police, rescue agencies, firefighters and other first responders. The Iridium systems offer interoperable voice and data communications, will work anywhere and are portable, according to the company. The data services include integration of radio frequency identification tags to help track vehicles, supplies and personnel wirelessly during emergencies so that response efforts can be monitored. Iridium, Satellite telephone handsets are priced at about $1,500 each, while a fixed base station that can be used in a rescue facility costs about $3,000, including an external antenna. Small mobile wireless modems that can be attached to vehicles and supply containers for wireless tracking cost about $500 each if tracking capabilities are to be deployed. The equipment can be used with solar chargers so it can be recharged when power is out, or vehicle battery charger adapters can be used.


Friends,
I am the secretary of the international cellular emergency alert services association (CEASa). I noticed your discussion about cell broadcasting and thought you might like to know that our group is now working with FEMA on the deployment of cell broadcast for public information purposes just as you have discussed. By the way I want to congratulate you on understanding it so well, when many seem confused about what it is.
see our website at www.ceasa-int.org for more details, or dont hesitate to write to me for more information. We are currently working on Washington DC, Kansas and New Orleans.
Warm regards,
Mark Wood From: Mark Wood <mark.wood@engineer.com>
Date: April 13, 2006 4:18:38 PM EDT

An April, 2004 report by the Government Accounting Office:
" The wireless communications used today by many public officers, firefighters, emergency medical personnel, and other public safety agencies do not provide [the ability] ... to effectively carry out their normal duties and respond to extraordinary events." There are approx. 3.2 million emergency responders in the United States. THE PROBLEM is that police departments, fire departments and EMT services don't want others sharing their spectrum This has always been about control: do the police control the spectrum? This is about first responders solving turf wars and deploying digital technology to use their spectrum more efficiently. Communication Networks for Humans

April 13th - 19th National Public Safety Telecommunications Week
The lesson is that even the most modern communications technology can fail, and that there is still value in having an independent communications infrastructure, especially when it costs the community little or nothing to maintain it. Dedicated Amateur radio operators assist local, state and federal workers by providing needed communications services both in the region and also to other parts of the US. ~ Andrew Seybold (W6AMS)

9/2/05 Who is jamming ham radio communications in New Orleans?

Communications backup plans in advance of Katrina, which has left hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people dead. Siemens acted as integrator to arrange for satellite network bandwidth , allowing the users to connect to a Siemens IP-based voice switch in Atlanta. With the Siemens VoIP phones, the workers can make five-digit calls over a familiar device to co-workers without needing special codes for the satellite links, Perez said.
All of the wireless carriers in the region have supplied thousands of cell phones to be used by relief workers and emergency personnel. Even so, the cell phones are only as good as the network that supports them , said Jack Gold, an independent wireless industry analyst based in Westboro, Mass.
"When stuff's under water, electrical stuff doesn't work," he said. "Fundamentally, you are still dealing with the laws of physics."
Gold said emergency personnel and utility workers from hundreds of different groups face the same lack of radio interoperability with their private system emergency radios that has plagued police and fire departments for decades . The hurricane and the resulting flooding are another reminder that "we're not moving fast enough" to create emergency radio interoperability for responding to homeland security and natural disaster emergencies.
"There's a lot of work to be done with radio interoperability , since we have 80 years of private radio networks as an installed base," he said. Gold noted that Austin and its suburbs, as well as some communities in California, are working together to find common radios. But most municipalities don't have the funds to abandon their systems.
A number of small companies is offering portable mesh networks that work over Wi-Fi and can be driven to disasters on short notice to provide a common IP platform so utilities, police, fire and other officials have interoperable communications, Gold said. "One universal IP network would help, but how you coordinate that is the problem," he said.

The US Army is shipping its Battlefield Medical Information System-Tactical (BMIS-T) to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) teams working in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf coast. The system consists of handheld devices that will give medics quick access to patient records and notes on potential treatment. BMIS-T uses iPaq handhelds from Hewlett-Packard to enable medics to document a clinical session in seconds, embedding patient records into the system. The Army has used BMIS-T in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Telecoms face 'one big mess' in Gulf Coast region 9.1.05 - Matt Hamblen
Cellular and other communication services are gradually improving in the Gulf Coast region more than three days after Hurricane Katrina blasted through, but service providers said today they still can't reach equipment in the flooded city of New Orleans to make needed repairs.
Officials at Cingular Wireless LLC, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Corp. and BellSouth Corp. reported separately at noon today that with flooding and power outages in New Orleans , crews can't access cellular sites
and switching stations for repairs. Sprint's crews are waiting in Baton Rouge, La., until officials say it's safe to enter New Orleans, a spokesman said.
The carriers are all relying on backup generators and in some cases portable generators and cellular transceivers carried on panel trucks. When possible, the carriers are also increasing power to rooftop cell
sites in New Orleans to boost signals, the spokesmen said.
"I think it will be a long time before we can determine how each carrier is doing, but it will not be easy," Kagan said. "This is much worse than the 9/11 emergency. It is not just a part of a city like New York. It is the entire Southeast that has been devastated.
Only a small portion of a cellular call is carried over a wireless link, with cell sites usually connected to the rest of a network through T1 or fiber-optic connections, the spokesmen said.
"Flooding has its most dramatic effect on land lines, such as T1s and fiber," said Verizon spokesman Patrick Kimball.
Where there is service, even in restored areas, network congestion is high, and land-line users have heard "all circuits are busy" or a fast busy signal, Bill Oliver, BellSouth's president of Louisiana operations, said in a statement. The wireless providers urged callers to use text messaging as an alternative to voice calls, partly because it requires less bandwidth.
None of the carriers could predict when service will resume, but Oliver said "key fiber breaks" in southeastern Louisiana will take more resources to repair. Of about 1 million landline phones in Louisiana that were out of service after the deadly storm hit on
Monday, only 130,000 have been restored so far, Oliver said.
Various reports from New Orleans tell of desperate survivors offering to pay strangers to use a cell phone to reach family and friends.
Meanwhile, a few companies in the Gulf Coast region set up communications backup plans in advance of Katrina, which has left hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people dead.
Siemens acted as integrator to arrange for satellite network bandwidth , allowing the users to connect to a Siemens IP-based voice switch in Atlanta. With the Siemens VoIP phones, the workers can make five-digit calls over a familiar device to co-workers without needing special codes for the satellite links, Perez said.
All of the wireless carriers in the region have supplied thousands of cell phones to be used by relief workers and emergency personnel. Even so, the cell phones are only as good as the network that supports
them , said Jack Gold, an independent wireless industry analyst based in Westboro, Mass.
"When stuff's under water, electrical stuff doesn't work," he said. "Fundamentally, you are still dealing with the laws of physics."
Gold said emergency personnel and utility workers from hundreds of different groups face the same lack of radio interoperability with their private system emergency radios that has plagued police and fire departments for decades . The hurricane and the resulting flooding are another reminder that "we're not moving fast enough" to create emergency radio interoperability for responding to homeland security
and natural disaster emergencies.
"There's a lot of work to be done with radio interoperability , since we have 80 years of private radio networks as an installed base," he said. Gold noted that Austin and its suburbs, as well as some communities in California, are working together to find common radios. But most municipalities don't have the funds to abandon their systems.
A number of small companies is offering portable mesh networks that work over Wi-Fi and can be driven to disasters on short notice to provide a common IP platform so utilities, police, fire and other officials have interoperable communications, Gold said. "One universal IP network would help, but how you coordinate that is the problem," he said.

School Disaster Plan

School Disaster Plan

Connectivity and telecommunications will breakdown.

SECURITY - ARE YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS PREPARED?

THE MAIN PROBLEM

IS

NO COMMUNICATION

You can't prevent disaster, you can only prepare for it and mange it when and after it happens. It will happen. The only secure computer is a dead computer. The only secure community in a hurricane zone is a dead community.

I've tried over and over to through the years to promote the integration of technology into the K12 classroom with Educational Tech folks the importance of having someone in every high school who gets their license and can operate a ham radio during disasters. No one listens!!!! and I'm disgusted.

Please Promote this idea: Learn to Be a Ham Radio Operator

#STEM Middle School and High school projects with Technology.

#STEM #SECURITY#edtech #edchat #edutech #edtechchat

WHEN CELL PHONES FAIL :

As you know in a true emergency when your cell phone doesn't work and there is no electricity you won't be able to charge your phone or use your computer or watch TV.

EVERY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR IN EVERY STATE SHOULD REQUIRE


THE SCHOOL COMPUTER LABS ARE FILLED WITH
MICROSOFT & APPLE
COMPUTERS WHICH WON'T WORK !!

DOES YOUR SCHOOL OWN A
HAM RADIO THAT WILL WORK?

NO? ... WHY NOT?
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BUY ONE!!


DO YOU KNOW HOW TO OPERATE A HAM RADIO?



CIVIL DEFENSE SCIENCE CURRCULUM

LEARN THE ELEMENTS AND THE PERIODIC TABLE

EVERY SCHOOL
CAN SEND
EMERGENCY EMAIL

FOR FREE

There have been School Disasters that devastated whole school districts because they don't have a plan.

If you are a government agency or nonprofit community service: (local, state, or federal) You CAN send emergency notification broadcasts on the Emergency Email Network to citizens in your area.

Almost every cell phone available today is able to send and receive SMS text messages. SMS infrastructure generally holds up better in times of crisis than email, and it automatically appears on your phone's screen when you receive one.

ANYONE CAN GET THESE MESSAGES

SCHOOL DIRECTORY School Directory

Click to receive Emergency Email notification
of natural disasters or other emergencies in your area.
A national community service since 1999 EMERGENCY EMAIL ALERT

NIST SECURITY CONFIGURATION CHECK LIST

FORMULATE A RESPONSE PLAN - REPORT THE INCIDENT

THREAT ASSESSMENT IN SCHOOLS : over 70 pages A GUIDE TO MANAGING THREATENING SITUATIONS AND TO CREATING SAFE SCHOOL CLIMATES UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE AND UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

This was done when ROD PAGE was the Secretary of Education! May 2002 revised in 2004

This document only mentions the telephone 1x on pg 73 and doesn't speak to cell phone use at all.

pg 73 Implementing a Threat Assessment Program :

1. A principal, superintendent, school board member, or other school official initiates a request to develop a process to evaluate and respond to threatening situations. The request is forwarded to the school board or other responsible oversight entity for policy approva l. Threatening situations might include: threats made directly against students, teachers, or other school officials; threats made indirectly by telephone, in writing, over the Internet, or through interpersonal contacts; communications or behaviors suggesting a student's intent to mount an attack at school; and allegations of bombmaking or that a student possesses a firearm.

2017

All Johnston Schools to be Closed Tuesday after students and parents received anonymous messages “threatening the safety and security” of students. Police: Johnston School Text Threats 'Not Credible' The Johnston Police Department is working with the FBI to further investigate the threats but have not determined their source at this point. Chief Dennis McDaniel says people can expect more threatening texts and phone calls however he says they will likely be from a different phone number.

- - - - > Cyber Security Expert: 'May be Difficult or Impossible to Track Down Johnston Threat Maker < - - - -

“It's very complex how all these things interact, and attackers use that complexity to their benefit,” says Iowa State University cyber security expert Doug Jacobson. Jacobson says there are countless ways to a person can hide a cell phone number , including through social media apps. ~ Google “There's apps you can get for your phone where you can get a second number for a week or two to send text messages off of a second number.” Digital detectives say it isn't as easy as tracing a number back to its account holder. In many cases, those tracks are covered. It takes the help federal mobile forensics to comb through data, but even then, it's not always successful “It's very difficult and may be impossible to track this person down, depending on what technologies they used.” example Unlimited Virtual Phone Numbers and google free disposable phone number .

Countywide Law enforcement Alerting and Safety System (CLASS)

Montgomery County PA - installed the Countywide Law enforcement Alerting and Safety System (CLASS) in schools. Wireless silent alarm "panic buttons" alert police. It is possible for dispatchers to upload specific school floor-plans to responding officers on their car laptops. Principals can wear wireless transmitters. This will not require the signal be received by as private alarm company. It cost 1 million.

How Much Time Do We Have??
(Disaster on a Big Scale): [1968]

How much time do we have, minutes, days, months, years? We don't know. But this we do know - Civil Defense is everybody's business! It's a big job, getting Civil Defense organized to operate efficiently, but then, atomic attack is disaster on a big scale. We can and must get the job done if we are to survive! Just imagine if only one atom bomb were to be dropped on an American city, say it's your city. Thousands of persons would be killed instantly! Many would be trapped or buried in wreckage. Streets would be blocked by rubble. Great fires would start, dozens of fires in a matter of minutes in many places at once. Then too, a large part of the city's food supply might be knocked out. The water supply might be cut off. Normal communications might stop; certainly transportation would. How much time do we have to prepare? We don' know. But this we do know! Civil Defense is everybody's business! It's your business!

BERT THE TURTLE
"DUCK AND COVER"
"Civil Defense for Schools"


Bert the Turtle Atomic Bomb k12 education Alerted Not Alarmed : 1951
Film star Mia Farrow

7-year-old Maria de Lourdes (as Mia was known at the time), participated, along with her siblings, in an astoundingly well covered Cold War media stunt that was a certifiable stroke of PR genius on the part of Archer Productions, the company that produced

DUCK AND COVER [1951] a 1950's civil defense film starring Bert the Turtle written by Ray J. Mauer. Bert the Turtle, the animated star of the first civil defense film produced for children by for the U.S. government AND THE National Education Association.


Excerpt:
RAY: "Seems to me there were about 50 reps from the NEA — teachers throughout the country who came and filled us in with the information that was very important because I didn't know anything about school kids anymore. I participated both days, but had nothing to do with organizing the meeting. It took place in a sizeable hall, with the Civil Defense people and us (Langlois and Mauer) seated facing the educational group.
CONELRAD: Did the teachers seem to appreciate what was being done?
RAY:They seemed quite pleased that we were interested in getting their ideas and getting things right.
CONELRAD:The working title for DUCK AND COVER was "Civil Defense for Schools" correct?
RAY: Those titles were given to us by the government. Those were the working titles. DUCK AND COVER was our concept, I mean we got it from the teacher (Helen Seth-Smith of The Potomac School). Because one group in particular said that's what they called doing the exercise. You know, the kids dove under their desk and what not. One of the women (Seth-Smith) called it "Duck and Cover" so it sounded good. And I thought that's as good as anything.
CONELRAD: Do you recall what the government's reaction was to DUCK AND COVER when it was submitted?
RAY: Only in a very general way. They were very pleased with it. They should have been. It didn't cost them anything and it was a damn sight better than any other films in that series. And it was better than the other one we had done by far (OUR CITIES MUST FIGHT)
CONELRAD: When you were bidding on the opportunity to produce the civil defense films did you take OUR CITIES MUST FIGHT by default?
RAY: I think we took the clunker in order to get "Civil Defense for Schools" (the working title for DUCK AND COVER). We worked harder than hell on the other one, but it never came to life.

CELL PHONE USED TO SCARE A SCHOOL

Cyber Security Expert: 'May be Difficult or Impossible to Track Down Johnston Threat Maker '

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Johnston police have not directly blamed a cyber security breach for Monday night's text threat , but the search for whoever gained access to the school district's personal information won't be easy. “It's very complex how all these things interact, and attackers use that complexity to their benefit,” says Iowa State University cyber security expert Doug Jacobson. Jacobson says there are countless ways to a person can hide a cell phone number, including through social media apps. “There's apps you can get for your phone where you can get a second number for a week or two to send text messages off of a second number.” Digital detectives say it isn't as easy as tracing a number back to its account holder. In many cases, those tracks are covered. It takes the help federal mobile forensics to comb through data, but even then, it's not always successful “It's very difficult and may be impossible to track this person down, depending on what technologies they used.” Jacobson says it doesn't take a genius to gain sensitive information, thanks to internet tutorials. He says as cyber security continues to be stretched to its limits, local police departments are struggling keep up. Experts remind online and mobile users anything they submit or post could be used against them. "Anything online, assume it can be shared with pretty much anybody."

Number spoofing. When speaking of telephony, the term 'spoofing' is generally used to describe the act of hiding a real number with a fake one on caller ID. Number spoofing can be easily achieved, and because caller ID technology has been around for a long time, with no real way to secure it,

  • Android burner Burner, The One-Click Disposable Phone Number App, Comes To Android
  • Covert Calling
  • http://calleridfaker.com/
  • The 67 Vertical Service code masks your number so that the recipient of your call sees your number as either “Blocked,” “Unavailable,” or “Private.” You can use the 67 code by simply dialing the numbers 67 right before your recipient's phone number. For instance, if you are calling the number 555-433-4343 and wish to keep your number hidden, you would dial 675554334343. Some government agencies, like law enforcement offices and 911 services, will be able to find your cell phone number even if you dial *67. Do not attempt to disguise your cell phone number when calling these agencies.
  • Telephone harassment laws forbid disguising your cell phone number when making annoying or nuisance telephone calls. If you disguise your cell phone number, even through a proxy service, you may be subject to civil and criminal penalties if you make unwanted, obscene, harassing or nuisance telephone calls.
  • SpoofCard, which allows you to mask both your phone number and your voice.

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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS (PSAs) SCARING US FOREVER!!
Hundreds of 30-to-60 second "atomic safety" PSAs were produced and aired during the Cold War (thousands if you count the Emergency Broadcast System test announcements). These audio postcards from another era are fascinating reminders of how seriously the subject of survival was taken. This subgenre is also notable for the number of celebrities who pitched in for the cause of survival. Examples include the intentionally humorous Psychiatrist (Shelter Signs) and the unintentionally hilarious Excellent Chances with announcer Groucho Marx. Sometimes, as in the case of the long running civil defense radio program, Stars for Defense STARS FOR DEFENSE, such PSAs were folded into the content of a show—not unlike the once common practice of broadcasters doing on-set commercials for various products.