I survived the 2010 Tsunami!
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I survived the 2010 Tsunami!
I woke up with a phone call early in the morning and heard the news.
My father in law was calling and my wife got worried as Ewa Beach residents were being evacuated. Of course we asked them to stay at our house till the warning was over..
I took precautions like buying gas for my generator and filling up water jugs with water and bought food in case of black out and watched the news.
Just glad it wasnt worse than it was....
I also survived hurricane iwa and iniki,
My father in law was calling and my wife got worried as Ewa Beach residents were being evacuated. Of course we asked them to stay at our house till the warning was over..
I took precautions like buying gas for my generator and filling up water jugs with water and bought food in case of black out and watched the news.
Just glad it wasnt worse than it was....
I also survived hurricane iwa and iniki,
Man...you know I know it sounds bad but I am always a little disappointed when some of these things turn out to be nothing. I work for the Red Cross and because of that I am trained in multiple disaster response jobs: http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/...extfmt=default
Basically meaning I can either supervise a shelter, set up a shelter or manage logistics for shelters...plus First Aid, CPR and AED. But in the 5 years that I've been being trained for this, I have never actually used any of these skills other than like putting on a band-aid.
Every time that there's a big disaster, I can't go because I am either busy doing my normal job (I can't be deployed from like mid-Summer to December) or am not trained for the specific need (Haiti). I keep telling my boss "One of these days, I'm going to the show!" but it just never happens. Its pretty much to the point where I can't keep moving up in our Disaster Services HR system until I actually do something more than just a local shelter.
But anyways, glad no one got hurt.
Basically meaning I can either supervise a shelter, set up a shelter or manage logistics for shelters...plus First Aid, CPR and AED. But in the 5 years that I've been being trained for this, I have never actually used any of these skills other than like putting on a band-aid.
Every time that there's a big disaster, I can't go because I am either busy doing my normal job (I can't be deployed from like mid-Summer to December) or am not trained for the specific need (Haiti). I keep telling my boss "One of these days, I'm going to the show!" but it just never happens. Its pretty much to the point where I can't keep moving up in our Disaster Services HR system until I actually do something more than just a local shelter.
But anyways, glad no one got hurt.
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its not over yet Cali is next or maybe Mexico? but the killed one is Cali, and it might just happen all in 2010.
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Just out of curiousity, do they have you folks in hawaii on alert still. I was just on the usgs site, and it looks like chile has had over 20 aftershocks all 5.0 or bigger.
I bet **** is so ****ed up down there, hopefully it calms down for them soon.
I bet **** is so ****ed up down there, hopefully it calms down for them soon.
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Man...you know I know it sounds bad but I am always a little disappointed when some of these things turn out to be nothing. I work for the Red Cross and because of that I am trained in multiple disaster response jobs: http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/...extfmt=default
Basically meaning I can either supervise a shelter, set up a shelter or manage logistics for shelters...plus First Aid, CPR and AED. But in the 5 years that I've been being trained for this, I have never actually used any of these skills other than like putting on a band-aid.
Every time that there's a big disaster, I can't go because I am either busy doing my normal job (I can't be deployed from like mid-Summer to December) or am not trained for the specific need (Haiti). I keep telling my boss "One of these days, I'm going to the show!" but it just never happens. Its pretty much to the point where I can't keep moving up in our Disaster Services HR system until I actually do something more than just a local shelter.
But anyways, glad no one got hurt.
Basically meaning I can either supervise a shelter, set up a shelter or manage logistics for shelters...plus First Aid, CPR and AED. But in the 5 years that I've been being trained for this, I have never actually used any of these skills other than like putting on a band-aid.
Every time that there's a big disaster, I can't go because I am either busy doing my normal job (I can't be deployed from like mid-Summer to December) or am not trained for the specific need (Haiti). I keep telling my boss "One of these days, I'm going to the show!" but it just never happens. Its pretty much to the point where I can't keep moving up in our Disaster Services HR system until I actually do something more than just a local shelter.
But anyways, glad no one got hurt.
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