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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.

A Chat (with some whisky)

Posted on 2020-11-032020-11-03 by Nick Meacher

with Chris Weatherman, Morgan Stewart and Kiki Bandilla This is the video of a live chat we did Monday 2nd November. It was supposed to be about an hour but as you will see we were having so much fun we kept going 🙂 PS After the live ended we stayed online chatting for another…

Blog 2020 11 02

Posted on 2020-11-022020-11-02 by Nick Meacher

Just a quick video blog

Live with Charlie Hogwood

Posted on 2020-09-222020-09-22 by Nick Meacher

Here is the video that Charlie and I did. We had audio issues for about the first 4 minutes. Charlie is the author of The Survival Group Handbook and Preppers’s Survival Retreats Check out his web pages at https://www.readygoprep.com/ And check out Charlie’s two fiction books

EARTH EX 2020

Posted on 2020-09-212020-09-21 by Nick Meacher

The fourth annualEmergency All-sector Response Transnational Hazard Exercise® (EARTHEX) Today’s lifeline infrastructures are interconnected and resourced on unprecedented scales, with supply chains spanning nations and, increasingly, the world. With this growing integration and global reach, they have brought us remarkable capabilities. At a price. Available for Play 1 Sep. – 31 Oct. You register and…

Facebook

Posted on 2020-09-192020-09-19 by Nick Meacher

Well you might have noticed that Facebook has disabled my account. They haven’t said why and they haven’t responded to any inquiries. This means that all posts done by me in the past are gone, pages I started and where there wasn’t another admin are gone, including the one I did for Fortune Favors the…

Communications Planning

Posted on 2020-09-152020-09-14 by Nick Meacher

This is a video I made for Survival Dispatch in July 2019 I have now developed a fillable form for a communications plan annex as part of your family emergency plan. The Family Emergency Plan form can be found athttps://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/preparedness-book-of-knowledge/planning/family-plan/fep/ The Communications Plan annex can be found at https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/preparedness-book-of-knowledge/communications/comms-plan/cpa/

Preparedness Master Plan – video

Posted on 2020-09-142020-09-14 by Nick Meacher

This is a video I made for Survival Dispatch in July 2019 on Preparedness Master Planning. The larger version of the mind map shown is available in the store.

THE EVENT HORIZON, by ANGERY AMERICAN

Posted on 2020-09-112020-09-11 by Nick Meacher

My friend Chris Weatherman, aka Angery American, is doing some essays on the insurrection – here’s the first one.

A Live with Angery American

Posted on 2020-08-292020-08-30 by Nick Meacher

This is a live Facebook chat that Chris and I did. It was only supposed to be an hour, we sort of had a list of things we were going to talk about and, well it went out the window!! We were chatting for over 2 hours! Lots of fun. If you have not read…

Have You Woken Up Yet?

Posted on 2020-08-262020-08-26 by Nick Meacher

Regardless of your political leanings, what fictional (sorry, news) or social media outlets you choose to watch you can’t have missed what happened in Kenosha last night. Some are asking “Is this the first shot of the next civil war?” Unlike MSM I’m not going to get into what might or might not have happened…

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