Read them together if you have the time. They’re built to be read together. ARTICLE 1: Community Lifelines fortunefavorstheprepared.com/community-lifelines/ 22-minute read This is the framework piece. When the next disaster hits your area, the people running the response will be tracking eight things: Safety & Security, Food / Hydration / Shelter, Health & Medical, Energy,…
Author: Nick Meacher
Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses.
He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year.
He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts.
He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.
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Todays Reports and new article
Todays DTR and other reports are up including the weekly Data Center and Infrastructure report – you can access them all here https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/dtr/ I’ve re-organized the intelligence section, I’ve got some new landing pages to do yet but I also added an article on wireless recon devices here https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/wireless-recon-devices/ I’m hoping the new home page…
Updates
Website Some of you may have noticed (because I’ve figured out how to see errors on the back end of the website 🙂 that in doing some major updates I broke stuff 🙂I’ve fixed them – I think – so if you noticed any broken links please let me know. As I mentioned, I’ve got…
A long time coming: the Personal Preparedness Assessment Report
This one has been a long time coming. The Personal Preparedness Assessment Workbook has been in customers’ hands for years. The methodology is sound, the math works, the output is genuinely useful. But there has always been the same gap. Step 1 asks the buyer to score 59 hazards for their specific address. And doing…
Mapping DMR Repeaters
Developing an efficient comms plan for day to day use can take time to do it right. Mapping out (DMR) repeaters involves work, research and a plan. If you don’t take these steps you end up with a mess in your codeplug. This is all of the DMR repeaters in North Carolina, and shows what…
Communications Resiliency
New blog/article https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/communications-resiliency/
UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATIONS RESILIENCY
Most people do not understand the interdependencies of critical infrastructure on electricity. Even those that do, most people do not comprehend the cascading events and effects that a disaster can have on the infrastructure. Damage to roadways, such as a broken water main, can damage communications cables that typically nearby as the surrounding ground is…
Personal Preparedness Assessment Workbook
What are you really preparing for? What is your level of preparedness or resiliency? What supplies do you have? What skills do you have? This workbook will take you through a process to determine what threats and hazards are in your area and what you are at most risk from. Once you have done that…
Getting The Message Through
Unless you are not on social media or not watching the news you can’t help seeing that there are thousands of people who are without cell service or other means of communication. There are thousands who are not able to communicate to their loved ones that they are OK, or otherwise, and there are families…