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You are here: Home / Articles / Coastside Disaster Preparedness / Want an “Are You Prepared?”  Memorial Day Shelter-in-Place Disaster Prep T-shirt or Hoody?

Want an “Are You Prepared?”  Memorial Day Shelter-in-Place Disaster Prep T-shirt or Hoody?

May 23, 2019 by Michelle

T-SHIRTS & HOODIES.  Thanks to Joe Angelini of Farmers Insurance for subsidizing the T-shirts!

Want an “Are You Prepared?”  Memorial Day Shelter-in-Place Disaster Prep T-shirt or Hoody?

Wear them around town as a conversation starter!

T-shirts ~ Xsmall, Small, Medium, Large = $10 ($12 for Xlg up)

Hoodies ~ Xsmall, Small, Medium, Large = $20 ($26 for Xlg up). Hoodie are also white and thick.

Printed by John the Sign Guy, in Pacifica, whose service is amazingly fast.

T-shirt art by painter Pete Collum, graphics by Colleen Henney of Crucial Creative

Contact Michelle to order.

 


ARTICLE / LINKS.  7.3 the Coast Goes Flat!  This is a self-participation event. At the very least, talk to every adjacent neighbor.  We want to teach people how to prepare before disaster and how to shelter in place after a disaster.

Earthquake: STORE WATER (1 gallon/day/per person)

Fire: CREATE DEFENSIBLE SPACE around your house, AND your neighbors

Tsunami: WALK UP HILL, DON’T DRIVE, please.

Storm: I.D.VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

96 hour Red Alert Power Outages: DO YOU NEED A GENERATOR?

Communication Outages: No cell, No internet. DO YOU HAVE A FAMILY BACKUP COMMUNICATION PLAN? HAM radio/KHMB?

Road / Tunnel is closed: HAVE FOOD, WATER, BLANKET, TOILET PAPER IN CAR?


How to Participate?

1. Help pass out flyers and magnets at Hassett and New Leaf Sat. and Sun. 5/25th-26th, 9:00-12:00. And collect emails.

2. Throw a Disaster block party in your neighborhood

3. Shelter-in-place overnight in your front or back yard

4. FRS / HAM exercise 9:00am Sat. At the very least go talk to all your neighbors.

 


Details

My name is Michelle Dragony. I am a CERT trainer. CERT is a FEMA civilian program for disaster preparedness. I work with HMB Battalion Chief Dave Cosgrave to help the coastside become prepared for disasters like storms, fires and a major earthquake.

To that end, I have created the Memorial Day Shelter in Place Disaster Prep Weekend Event.

  • The event would run from Saturday 9am to Sunday 9am.
  • We would ask people to shelter in place in their front yard or backyard where they would set up their tent and get their survival food out and see what tools they don’t have and what they wish they had, and the like.
  • We would also be doing a FRS/HAM radio communication exercise at some point during that 24 hour period. We have 25 neighborhoods and we need 50 (Two 12-hour shifts) ham radio operators to cover the disaster like a 7.3 earthquake. https://www.coastsidebuzz.com/7-3-the-coast-is-flat-neighborhood-communications-exercise/
  • Handout flyers at Hassett Hardware and New Leaf.
  • Saturday evening will be neighborhood BBQ block parties, Coastside-wide, where everybody gets their disaster food out and they try to eat it. This exercise will achieve several things:
    • They will decide what they would really eat in a disaster (like, some bars are really bad!)
    • Get them to rotate their food on a yearly basis.
    • Donate rotated food to Coastside Hope.
    • Give people a chance to network.
    • Use the BBQ block-party angle to promote safe BBQing demo.
  • Some people can sleep out on Saturday night to check their camp gear, and for fun.
  • Pack up Sunday morning. Continue presence at Hassett Hardware and New Leaf handing out magnets and flyers.

This will be a yearly event so it creates a culture of preparedness, over time.

 


More Coastside Emergency Prep Information on Coastside Buzz.

FRS/GMRS Radio (WalkieTalkies) Basic Training ~ Learn How to Communicate in a Disaster, Part 1

7.3 – “The Coast is Flat” ~ Neighborhood Communications Exercise

HAM Radio Technician License Videos ~ Start Learning Today

CAL Fire FIRE RISK Report ~ Kings Mtn. 2nd and El Granada 6th on Fuel Reduction List

Spectacular Goes17 Weather Satellite for West Coast ~ Great Detail

POD (Point of Distribution) exercise

DART (Disaster Airport Relief Team) exercise

Japanese Tsunami video

Raging WildFire? ~ Get Your Go Bag Ready and Ranches Practice Large Animal Evacuation

 

Contact Michelle Dragony, if you have any questions.

 

Painting by Pete Collom

Thanks to our sponsors Hassett Hardware, New Leaf, Half Moon Bay Review and Half Moon Bay Chamber/CEAP.

 

 

 

 

 

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Coastside CERT

We are an emergency preparedness volunteer organization focused on creating a ready and resilient community along the San Francisco Bay Area coast from the southern side of the Tom Lantos Tunnel (Devil’s Slide) to Tunitas Creek Road.

Emergency Prep Resources

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 LOGO AM-FMKHMB 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 logo-jCEC – 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

CERTCERT 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

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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

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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

mrcMRC – 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.

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

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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

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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.


michelleMichelle 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.

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