National Night Out Fun with Northwest Miramar Neighbors!

August 7, 2019 by Michelle

ARTICLE/ PHOTOS. Northwest Miramar residents enjoyed a beautiful neighborhood party right in front of the ocean on National Night Out. They came by foot, they came by bike. It really wasn’t much of a hike!

The owner of the Douglas Beach House graciously allowed us to hold the event in front of the Ebb Tide Café and the weather cooperated as well. Early in the evening, we had the honor of welcoming a few firefighters from the Cal Fire Department, who posed for photos and gave us several safety tips. We appreciated their presence!

Throughout the evening, more and more neighbors showed up bringing homemade food such as smoked salmon appetizers, chilled shrimp, chili rellenos, hot corn dip, pumpkin bread, lasagna, pizza, cookies, lemon bars, brownies, and a host of other yummy edibles. We rounded it off with some good wines, beer, and flavored waters.

Thanks to San Mateo County for supporting National Night Out. An extra thanks to Mother Nature for holding steady and letting us enjoy the powerful force of the ocean on this beautiful beachfront. Grateful for all.

Thanks to Miramar residents, Kent Taylor, Celina Lopez, and Joe Roark for organizing this year’s event.

~ Thanks to Celina Lopez, Citizen Reporter for CoastsideBuzz

Related

The average Coastsider may not be aware of the many emergency preparation resources available to us! Here’s a list of many of those resources.

KHMB AM 1710 and FM 100.9

KHMB Radio AM 1710 and FM 100.9 is our local Emergency Radio Station. You would still want to tune in to KCBS for Bay Area wide emergency news. Make sure you have a radio!
Go to: KHMB or KHMBRadio.com to tune in.

CEC – Coastside Emergency Corp

From Waddell Creek to Devil’s Slide and up to Skyline are 4 Branches of emergency prepared coastside citizens that are forming. They include many emergency disciplines.
Go to: CEC Portal

CERT Teams – Community Emergency Response Team

Trainings are offered a couple of times per year up and down the coast CERT volunteers are forming Neighborhood Watches to help their neighbors get prepared.
Go to: FEMA page on CERT

CEAP

Charise McHugh of the Half Moon bay Chamber of Commerce has worked for several years to organize businesses on the coastside in an emergency via the Coastside Emergency Action Plan). If you are a business and have not already participated, please contact the Chamber. In an emergency we need to know where our resources are and how to deploy materiel, and how to get refunded by FEMA.
Go to: HMB Chamber Page on CEAP

SMC Alert

It is a free alert system that will come to your cell phone, your tablet or computer, or all three. There is no charge, although your carrier may charge for texts. This is the best way to stay on top of traffic accidents.
Go to: SMCAlert.info to sign up

MRC – Medical Reserve Corps

Doctors and nurses work together to become the backbone of an emergency medical situation. Coastside Emergency Experts will tell you that the Coastside will be on its own in a major earthquake disaster for 5-7 days. And we no longer have a Medical Reserve Corps on the Coastside! Contact mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com if you are interested in creating a new chapter.

HAM Radio

ARES—Amateur Radio Emergency Service—of Half Moon Bay
Go to: their website

Red Cross

We have several Red Cross trailers on the Coast. Take a Red Cross class so you can help in one the shelters during a disaster.
Go to: Sign up for a class or Contact Local Red Cross volunteer Jim Holley

NextDoor

Have you signed up with Next Door? Next Door is a great social media tool that will help you stay up to date with what is going on in your neighborhood and other neighborhoods on the Coast.
Go to: NextDoor.com to sign up.

Michelle Dragony, founder of CoastsideBUZZ.com, is also a civilian CERT trainer working with Dave Cosgrave, Cal Fire Battalion Chief of Half Moon Bay, and Ari Delay, Cal Fire Battalion Chief of La Honda. Email here at mdragony@coastsidebuzz.com if you have any questions.