Tomorrow (Election Day) FEMA Exercise

[montanacowboy]

All FEMA Regions will be activating their ROCs at a Level 3 Watch 24-hour operation effective Tuesday, November 2. The purpose is to ensure that FEMA and other federal departments and agencies have in place the framework to initiate consequence management and response operations if incidents occur during the elections.

What incidents? Consequence Management?

[demnan]

1. A link please?

or is this just speculation?

[montanacowboy]

3. It's not speculation

I cannot give you a link, there is no link. It is going to happen. I question why on election day?

[Soloflecks]

4. Have a bunch-o-links.

http://www.legitgov.org/essay_kane_fema_terror_drill_102904.html

At least three states have WMD/Terrorism Incident drills scheduled for Tuesday, November 2, 2004 – Election Day. As of May 8, 2001, Dick Cheney was placed in charge of managing all domestic preparedness related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). It is likely that Cheney will be managing all of the Election Day WMD/Terrorism Incident drills across the country. The presidential statement, which gave Cheney this power, also created the Office of National Preparedness.

FEMA’s website makes the national announcement, but omits any dates, saying only that this is a “training course” that takes place over three 8-hour days. The course is headed by the Office of Domestic Preparedness.

http://www.fema.gov/compendium/course_detail.jsp?id=353

The original link includes information about drills and other doings in various key states.

[NVMojo]

2. like the FEMA exercise on 9-11 did any good...

[hangloose]

5. It worked perfectly, but to believe that you need to be a cynic

[hangloose]

6. It's their ACE in the hole if the exit polls are you lopsided

[Javaman]

7. They are preparing for Hurricane Kerry! ;)