Where is the DU Emergency Preparedness Forum?

[ColbertWatcher]

[Breeze54]

1. I don't think there is one... there is weather though

:shrug:

Good Question was my answer. :P

:hi:

[MindPilot]

2. As a Californian,

I am deeply suspicious of anything that falls out of the sky that is not on fire.

[meegbear]

3. ...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DUPanicRoom

[Donnachaidh]

4. If you live in Los Angeles and don't have your OWN emergency preparedness kit

You should be slapped upside the head. Multiple times.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. So very true...

...but having a forum where locals can go to discuss ideas, etc. or the newly moved can go for info on how to start up would be a nice idea.

In fact it was a good idea when it was floated a few months ago.

Still is.

[Donnachaidh]

13. during the Northridge quake the net was the fastest way to get messages out

The local phone system was totally screwed.

Dunno if Skinner et al would allow a forum for people to make connections, but it would be a good idea.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. I don't know if it would he used for that necessarily...

...from what I remember it was to be used for people to exchange preparedness info.

[Donnachaidh]

19. that would be a redundancy -- there's tons of preparedness info on the net

Or do you just want a *DU* preparedness forum?

As I said in an earlier post, if you live in California and do NOT have some sort of emergency package already in place, you need to be slapped upside the head. I'm quite serious about that. Having lived through the horrors of Northridge, I know a bit about it. And as Katrina has shown me that FEMA has only gotten WORSE since we had to deal with them - you'd be really putting your life and the lives of your family members in jeopardy waiting until it happens to get the information together.

From your post, I think what you are asking for is just kind of elitist. What would a DU forum on preparedness do differently? :shrug:

[NightWatcher]

6. even though I thought we had enough people (2-3 times). I guess they just dont want to create one

it is their toy and they can do whatever they want, but whatever.

I think it could be useful. If things are mentioned in GD they just fall off the front page.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. What I've been doing is every time there is a story on GD...

...about a fire, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, flood, etc I ask where the DU Emergency Preparedness forum is.

[NightWatcher]

9. and what have you found? why arent we getting it?

[ColbertWatcher]

10. I have no idea where it is and why we don't have one. n/t

[Ilsa]

7. I was looking for it yesterday. Had to settle for Frugal Living, which

isn't the same thing.

I hope we'll get a forum that discusses intermediate and long term disaster preparedness.

[IDemo]

11. I've experienced the same thing

with the Book and DVD Exchange group proposal from about 2 weeks ago.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. I remember that...

...so despite all the interest, that's a no-go as well?

Huh.

[IDemo]

15. So far as I know

I haven't heard a yeah or a nay on it yet. :shrug:

[BlooInBloo]

16. Yes - please put all of the Ted Nugent nuts together....

So they can masturbate together over the fact that they have 17 brazillion years worth of food stored up.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Great idea, because then the DUers can stay away from them too.

BTW, fuck Nugent.

[OmahaBlueDog]

18. When you said "DU Emergency Preparedness", I thought you meant we were all being rounded up..

.not that I'm paranoid or anything.