Eprep Links - to organize

Community Organizing for Disaster

• Volgistics.com : "The online system for recruiting, tracking and coordinating volunteers" (volunteer logistics)

Alerting

• AlertSCC: Alerts for residents of Santa Clara County California: voice (landline and cell), SMS (text messages), and email, depending on choice of the person/business registering.
• Partnership for Public Warning
  Note: Although the group itself was disbanded in March 2005, the website had proven value and is being maintained by MITRE
• San Mateo County (California) Community Alert System
• AlertSF Notification System: 24/7 text-based emergency information to your wireless device
• How to Communicate Right Info: Slides from a presentation by 3N, a vendor of Community Alerting Systems
• Countering Disinformation: very difficult and counterproductive
  • Persistence of Myths Could Alter Public Policy Approach, Washington Post, 2007-09-04, pag A03 : Based upon research reported below
  • Metacognitive Experiences and the Intricacies of Setting People Straight: Implications for Debiasing and Public Information Campaigns by Norbert Schwarz, Lawrence J. Sanna, Ian Skurnik, Carolyn Yoon
• Sandy forecasts were on target, but message was a bit garbled
• The Haunting Weather Statement That Saved Lives During Hurricane Katrina by Alissa Walker - Gizmodo, 2015-08-29

General Emergency/Disaster Preparedness

• As Government Reacts to Sandy, Lessons from Katrina and Other Natural Disasters: The politics and policy of emergency preparedness have changed a lot in the last seven years (Time, 2012-10-30)
• Beyond Duct Tape: The Federal Government's Role in Public Preparedness By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation, 2005-06-03
• Can I quit now? FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged -- CNN, 2005-11-03.
  A Louisiana congressman says e-mails written by the government's emergency response chief as Hurricane Katrina raged show a lack of concern for the unfolding tragedy and a failure in leadership.
• Don't Be a Dead Hero: In some disasters, more rescuers die than original victims., Slate
• 72 Hours.org : Are you prepared?
• [Missing URL] Family Disaster Preparedness Guide: City of Pleasanton, Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, Annex J
  LEAP: Local Emergency Action Program: esp asset mapping
  Local Copy
• Natural Disaster Management: chapter from **** : PDF and MS Word.
• Red Cross Silicon Valley
• OpenHazards.com: Earthquake Forecasting and Hazards Analysis: Consultants: may have some useful info online
• Packet of pamphlets to distribute to residents - DRAFT
  • Prep Guide Home Safety Emergency Plan, Salvation Army BookletA
    The new guide does not have the pocket for additional pamphlets
  • Preparing for Disaster, FEMA Booklet 475 A4600
  • Preparing for Disaster for People with Disabilities &Other Special Needs, FEMA Booklet 476 A4497
  • Food & Water un an Emergency, FEMA Booklet 477 A5055
  • Emergency Preparedness Checklist, Red Cross and FEMA Booklet
  • Family Disaster Supplies Kit, Red Cross and FEMA Booklet
  • Fire, Red Cross and NFPA Booklet
  • Guide to Preparing for Pandemic Flu, Santa Clara County
  • Sticker to place inside booklet with emergency numbers - fire, police, KZSU, etc (pending)
  • Optional packets as appropriate
    • Preparedness in High Rise Buildings, FEMA Booklet (Earthquake Hazards Reduction Series 10)
    • Preparedness in Apartments& Mobile Homes, FEMA Booklet (Earthquake Hazards Reduction Series 22)
  • Technophilia: Organize your family's essential information in case of an emergency - Lifehacker - focus: digitize your documents (and put on USB thumb drive) (Note: minimal when indexed, but it is an promising beginning of a thread)
• Incremental purchasing of preparedness supplies:
  • Millenium Ark: Long-term food storage
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (aka Mormons) and its members have published a large collection of articles and guides for incremental purchasing. Because this collection seems to be constantly evolving, use web search to find this information
• Note: Greenmeadow Association has e-prep document
• Southgate Neighborhood Watch distribution
  • PANDA brochure
  • Red Cross brochures
    • Earthquakes
    • Fire
    • Family Disaster Supply Kit
    • Family Disaster Plan
  • Palo Alto Police Dept
    • Personal Safety
    • Palo Alto 911
    • Home Security Survey
    • Magnet with emergency phone #s
  • Neighborhood Watch brochure
  • USGS
    • Putting Down Roots in Earthquake County
• Fritz Institute : "A non-profit dedicated to improving global disaster relief by creating innovative appproaches to ensure that help arrives when and where it is needed most
• T-CEP - the Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness "T-CEP, the Topanga Canyon Emergency Preparedness resource."
  Topanga Emergency Management Plan

The Fire Next Time - CaliforniaConnected.org "Back in 1993, an enormous wildfire roared through the canyon, destroying hundreds of homes and killing three people. When the ..." (affiliated with PBS station KCET, episodes are expired or location unknown)
• Welcome to the Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley
• Amazon.com: Books: Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery : A Small Business Guide
• QuakeKare.com: Emergency Kits and Supplies for Disaster Preparedness
• abc7news.com: Prepare Important Papers For Disaster
• FRS/GMRS radios - constrains
  • The PopularWireless GMRS Bubble-Pack Pirate FAQ (contains apparent inconsistencies with what is at other credible sites)
• ERs in need of first aid: U.S. emergency-care system is ill prepared for disaster: study, 2006-July-10
• Community Disaster Plan: Supervisorial District 5, City & County of San Francisco, 2nd Draft of 2006-January-17. Marked For Discussion Only - Not for Release, but has been made available on the web and through other distribution channels
  Note sections 3 and 4:
  • [404=http://www.sfcard.org/CommDisPlan5060117.pdf[ On-line
  • Local Copy
  • Comments/ideas on local applicability
• City of Cupertino Emergency Preparedness
• SiliconValley.com - Google to help non-profits with mapping software
  Volunteers
• Community Emergency Response Team: Administrative/Operation Guidelines: City of Riverside 2004-August
  Within Riverside CERT, they have:
  1. the CERT Coordinator
  2. Quadrant Coordinators (for each Fire Quadrant -- PAFD does not have/need)
  3. District Leaders [we have?]
  4. Tract Coordinators [we might call Neighbordhood Coordinator?]
  5. Block Coordinator [similar to the BPC idea]
• Ready.gov preparedness site from US federal government

Radio Communication: FRS, GMRS and successors (below HAM)

• [404=http://www.popularwireless.com/pra/PRA_CERTetal.html] Personal Radio Service Emergency FAQ: from The Personal Radio Association

Earthquake

• U.S. National Seismic Hazards Maps
• Water Supply at Risk segment of PBS TV show California Connected (affiliated with PBS station KCET, episodes are expired or location unknown)
• Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country: Your Handbook for the San Francisco Bay Region from the U.S. Geological Survey To Order Hardcopies

Social Disorder: Fear of

• The Civilizing Power of Disaster: Where was all the chaos, looting, and mass-panic during Hurricane Sandy?, Slate
• Hurricane Katrina: Catastrophic Impacts and Alarming Lessons by Kathleen Tierney, U of Colorado, 2008. Chapter 7 of Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy, ed John M. Quigley and Larry A. Rosenthal.
  especially sections Social Inequality Matters, Prepardness versus Planning Fantasies, Elite Panic and Its Consequences.
• Misleading reports of lawlessness after Katrina worsened crisis, officials say - The Guardian, 2015-08-16.
  National guard coordinator and ex-governor say tales of violence and looting — which hampered rescue work and led to quasi-militia groups — were exaggerated
  Nothing new — simply another report confirming/expanding what was already known.
• The Myths of Katrina by Marta Jewson and Charles Maldonado - Slate, 2015-08-28.
  Ten years after the storm, falsehood about warnings, violence, and recovery persist. Here's the truth. Some elite panic, some blame-shifting.

Politics: Exploiting the Opportunity of a disaster

• The Great Fire of Rome in 64CE (while Nero fiddled) created space for a huge urban renewal project, including a new palace for Nero. Current opinion of historians seems to be that Nero did not order the fire to be set.
• How Natural Disasters Harm the Poor More Than the Rich by John Mutter - Slate, 2015-08-28.
  It was true before Hurricane Katrina, and it's true now.

Psychology and Mental Health

• The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Failures of the Hurricane Katrina Response and How Psychology Can Help (PDF): discusses the lack of preparedness to respond effectively to mass disaster
• Navigating the Maze of Disaster Mental Health: The Journey of the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps (PDF) : discusses the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps (PAMRC) program which focuses on disaster mental health education and response in Houston, TX following Hurrican Katrina
• Psychology of Terrorism (2006). B. Bongar, L. M. Brown, L. E. Beutler, J. N. Breckenridge and P. G. Zimbardo (Eds.), USA, Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195172493
• Treating Victims of Mass disaster and Terrorism (October 2006). J. Housley and L. E. Beutler, USA, Hogrefe Press. ISBN: 0-88937-321-3
• Panic and the Vision of Collective Incompetence: Disaster Myths...Second in a Series from Natural Hazards Observer, Volume XXXI, Number 2, 2006-November

Logistics

• What Good Is a Gas Station (Or a Generator) If Gas Can�t Be Pumped?, Time
• How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters, ProPublica (Journalism int he Public Interest), 2012-12-03
• Earthquake plan has role for Vancouver parks (Canadian Broadcasting Corp, British Columbia) 2011-10-10. Brief note on experience of Christchurch NZ using public parks after their earthquakes.

Pandemic Flu

• [404=http://www.sccgov.org/SCC/docs%2FPublic%20Health%20Department%20(DEP)/attachments/PHPandemicEng.pdf] Your Guide to Preparing for Pandemic Flu: by Public Health Department, Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System, The County of Santa Clara
• [Dead=http://www.fluradar.com/] FluRadar.com - news on outbreaks, but seems to be more about advertising
• Quarantines Work Against Pandemics Time Magazine, 2007-08-07
• Surgical mask info
  • Clinicians' Biosecurity Network (CBN) Report: Surgical masks may provide significant aerosol protection 2007-02-15
  • Face Facts, a Op-Ed by Lawrence M. Wein (Professor in Stanford School of Business) in 2006-10-25 NY Times - on utility of surgical masks
• "If the public truly believes that we are better off today than we were a year ago, the next disaster will prove how wrong it is." Brian F. Keaton, M.D.; President of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
• Proposal to Adapt Earthquake Preparedness for Flu in Albany California (An opinionated personal crusade) by Raymond Richard Neutra MD Dr.PH: PDF and PowerPoint
• Fragment: "Boggs on Pandemic Flu"
• Pandemic Mass Care: Door-to-Door Feeding Training (slide show) by Mark Liao, Palo Alto Area Red Cross, Disaster Services, August 2007
• Study Shows Why the Flu Likes Winter - New York Times, 2007-12-05 by Gina Kolata

National Security

• Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

Pets in Disasters

• Advice rrom the Humane Society in Silicon Valley

Businesses

Emergency Medecine/First Aid

• Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition Hardcover � January 19, 2007 by Paul S. Auerbach
• Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, 3 edition, Paperback � May 27, 2008 by Paul S. Auerbach MD

Individual Supplies

• Costco offers a variety of emergency supplies. Need to be searched for on their site because the links change from time to time, and sometimes they aren't being offered.
  • Various products from Shelf Reliance: foods, storage bins and shelving, 55-gallon water barrels
• Pooh Powder: A gelling powder for urine

To find

• Medical problems: CDC interview about Grand Rounds: SCC (sp?) best example