Mira Mesa CERT Newsletter 10/18

Good morning, here is the News:

Team Meeting— Thursday, 10 November.  Daylight Savings Time ends the week before, so it will be dark.  I think we will meet at our primary rally point.  Some of you have never been there.  We will meet at or near the gazebo in Mira Mesa Park, just off of New Salem Street, east of Mira Mesa Blvd.  This is more or less between Fire Station 38 and the Recreation Center.  We never had a chance to talk about the blackout, so let's make that our primary topic.  I would like to know how your plan worked, and what you will do differently next time.  Let's face it, there WILL be a next time.  I know many of you made the haunt drill last week, we can talk about that also.  We will start at 6:00pm, end at 7:00.  Please bring a folding chair of some sort if you don't want to stand the whole time, remember to dress for the weather, and of course bring personal illumination.  PPE/Go-Bags not required.

Haunt Drill—Quite a deal this year, we had 44 signed up, and I think just over 40 signed in and did the drill.  Those of you who participated should be getting a short survey in a few days, please take a few minutes to fill it out and send it in.  I can promise you that your impressions will matter.

Rally Point—I mentioned this in the Team Meeting announcement, and I would imagine that some of our newer members are not quite sure what this is.  A Team Rally Point is simply a place on the map in the geographic area covered by a CERT Team.  They are typically out in the open some place, and not tied to any building which may be unusable following a disaster.   The rally point is a place where you can go following a disaster to connect with other CERT and begin a coordinated response.  If you have no available communication following a sudden catastrophic disaster, and don't expect communications to resume, AND you are available for deployment, you can go to the rally point.  What you do from there depends on who else shows up and what you have available.  It's a source of endless discussion that you are now part of, think about what you might do if you showed up and discovered that you are in charge.

That's all for this week, Battalion News follows, questions, comments, you know how to find me.

-Steve