Archives for “Emergency Response”

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill by Transocean / BP – Resources

Deepwater Horizon Response Main Site: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com Twitter Handle: http://twitter.com/Oil_Spill_2010 Deepwater Horizon on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DeepwaterHorizonResponse


SHORT VERSION: Please vote for my panel at SXSW DON’T PANIC – The Geek’s Guide to the Next Big Crisis LONG VERSION: A little more than four years ago I wrote my first blog post. It was about the need for a form of Emergency RSS. We can share celebrity gossip headlines through feed readers [...]


Firestorm: Plan. Predict. Perform. with General Honoré

Yesterday I had the honor to participate in a hurricane and disaster preparedness Webinar with (client) Firestorm and the distinguished Lt. General Honoré. Katie live-blogged the Predict Plan Perform webinar on the Schipul blog here: Families trump business – you must have a plan in place to make sure all of your employees are covered [...]


Tribal Citizenship Behavior

When a crisis occurs, like a hurricane hits your city or the country freaks out about the swine flu, part of a leaders job is to protect the tribe. To do that, the people have to be prepared. The first priority must then be to make sure every member of the tribe is prepared to [...]


Hurricane Gustav Comes to the Gulf, Invited or Not


Emergency Simulation – learning from exercises


Tornado Scare at the Pub

Tornado Scare at the Pub Originally uploaded by eschipul Fort Smith Arkansas. Killing a bit of time before going back to the hotel. Walking around taking pictures on Garrison Avenue in Fort Smith (see previous in series). It starts to rain a bit so I dash into the one open pub – Roosters. The rain [...]


Houston Transtar 2 Originally uploaded by eschipul In September of 2005 I started blogging. It was a reaction, a response, to the events of Katrina hitting New Orleans. And the Houston response. We now know a city of 400k was reduced to 200k with many of those who left living in Houston. But I digress. [...]