So in order not to obsess to much about my points I thought I would tell you a bit about our EOC (emergency operations center) activation today as part of the big earthquake drill here in CCalifornia. Well at 10:00 this morning we had a 7.8 (pretend earthquake). The EOC was activated and we reported to our posts, I co-chair the Logistics section in my city. It was a 3 hour exercise and we had calls coming in from outside agencies that were participating and some staff that were making calls to simulate different things. Not to bore you with all the details, although some of it was pretty wild, I took a call from a Senior Citizen on a bus whose driver had abandoned them. 50 seniors on a bus! We also had to relocate our EOC to another location (which we actually did, not just role played) because of the dam in the canyon above us that was leaking and going to break. Logistics handles getting all the things, shelters, facilities, food, staging areas, morgues, pet evacuation, mutual aid, etc for the emergency. We had to be aware of the flood inundation area and set up all these outside that area. We work with lots of outside agencies and vendors to make all this happen. All in all it was pretty realistic, even though on alot of things we had to make assumptions since we were running a scenario not the real thing. Such as sending out a building inspector to check a facility before telling the red cross it was safe to use as a shelter. That was coordinated through other groups but no one actually made an inspection. Well enough of that.
I kept in my points range yesterday and it looks like today will be ok too. Although I am ravenous when I get home from work, so I eat a couple of bites of protein, chicken breast etc to tide me over til dinner.
Sprocket had a dental cleaning yesterday wit one extraction. It took a toll on him, he is really shaky and seems to be in some pain. I medicated him and he ate some dinner, but I had to had fed him. I only saw him drink water a little this morning, not this evening. If he doesn’t drink more I might syringe a little into his mouth. I don’t want him to dehydrate.
Earthquakes…pretty scary stuff. I guess I’ll never complain about a snowstorm again!
Awww, poor Sprocket – hugs for him. How’s he doing now?
Ooh, I’ve been part of one of those EOC activations! In this part of the country, earthquakes aren’t the cause for the emergency, but otherwise it sounds very similar. They’re very cool, aren’t they? When everything goes according to plan, that is.
Poor little Sprocket. I hope that a night’s rest helped him to feel better. That anesthesia can really take a toll on our little friends.
I didn’t find out about the earthquake simulation until it was over. I guess though if a real 7.8 quake hit, I would know about it …
I’ve become Mrs. Roundy again.
Out here in the back country we actually did have a 4.something earthquake after the scenario was done.
Earthquakes are scary.
Poor little Sprocket. Hope he is feeling better now.