Thursday, April 12, 2012

Damage Assessment Training

Damage Assessment Training:
Over fifty folks came in out of the rain last night to hear Ken Napior (of Foster City CERT) give a very informative presentation, training us on CERT Damage Assessment guidelines.   This was a very good session that taught us some standardized guidelines to use during inspection and assessment of structures.  For the attendees that didn’t get any handouts, here they are: handout1 & handout2.  Handout2 includes a sheet describing the Mercalli Earthquake Scale which give a more meaningful indicator of damage than the Richter Scale we are all used to reading about.




Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mira Mesa Team Newsletter

Good morning, here is our Team News:

Team Meeting TONIGHT— I'm looking forward to seeing many of our new members. Some of you have already told me you cannot make it, and that's fine. You don't have to make all of them. In fact, that's why we've stuck with doing them on the tenth of the month, so everyone can make it eventually. We try to make these meetings useful and informative, and a place where you can get your questions answered. This year, we've managed to post our meeting dates on the CERT Website:

https://apps.sandiego.gov/ereg/cert/courses.php?grp=Team+Meetings

We really intend to stick with these dates, but the are NOT set in stone, if it makes sense to move a date we will, and post it in the News (this weekly email).

Tonight's meeting is 6:00-7:00pm at the Senior Center, I understand we are in the Media Room again. When you enter the front door on the West end of the building, the media room is about 2/3 of the way down the hall on the left.

The Center is on the North side of Mira Mesa Blvd,. between New Salem/Reagan and Camino Ruiz. Note that you cannot turn left off of Mira Mesa Blvd. into the Senior Center. As you travel West on Mira Mesa Blvd., as soon as you pass the Senior Center turn into the first drive, NOT the second.

See you there!


Marrow Drive—They opened 20 slots for this, which filled rapidly. Thank You. It didn't make sense to sign up more people than this, since we don't really have the psychical parameters of this event set yet. If we need to go to multiple shifts or something like that, we'll re-open signup. I'll put out a special announcement if that happens. Once again, thank you for your support of this worthy effort.


That's all for this week, questions, comments, drop me a note.


-Steve