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Wednesday, July 22, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Preparing for
‘The Really Big One’
A recent article in the
New Yorker called “The
Really Big One” has drawn
a lot of attention both locally
and nationally to the dam-
age a Cascadia earthquake
and tsunami will cause, and
emergency planners have
been taking the opportunity
to raise awareness about how
individuals can prepare, and
how the region and Oregon
are also continuing to prepare
and mitigate for the looming
threat.
“We want Oregonians to
be prepared, not scared,” said
Oregon Office of Emergency
Management (OEM)
Director Andrew Phelps.
“What we do now to prepare
will save lives and property
during any disaster.”
We want oregonians
to be prepared, not
scared. What we do now
to prepare will save
lives and property
during any disaster.
— Andrew Phelps
One project Oregon OEM
and others are working on is
a Cascadia Playbook to syn-
chronize state and emergency
support function partners
during Cascadia and other
emergencies. The Cascadia
Playbook is a cross-cutting
emergency management
tool for the State of Oregon
that supports various, exist-
ing plans and efforts for the
first 14 days of a catastrophic
incident.
Oregon has also com-
mitted to being a full part-
ner with Washington, Idaho,
and FEMA in the develop-
ment and presentation of
a regional exercise called
Cascadia Rising. The state-
wide exercise planning is in
concert and collaboration
with the regional effort for
Oregon’s largest emergency
management exercise ever
that is scheduled for spring
2016.
Dr. Althea Rizzo, the geo-
logic hazards coordinator for
Oregon OEM said that the
success of what emergency
management partners are
doing to prepare Oregon for
Cascadia and other emer-
gencies is one aspect of
preparedness, and that indi-
viduals and families should
strive to be self-sufficient
during a disaster. A good
goal is to work toward hav-
ing two weeks of emergency
supplies to be ready for an
emergency.
“Now is a perfect time for
everyone to evaluate a family
emergency plan and update
or establish emergency
kits,” Rizzo mentioned.
“Make sure you and family
members know about estab-
lished exit routes, contacts,
meeting places, etc., after a
disaster.”
For emergency kits, Rizzo
said it is a good idea to add
new items, over time.
“You don’t have to run out
and spend a lot of money,”
she added. “If you go camp-
ing, you probably have a lot
of your preparedness already
done.”
Rizzo said everyone
should practice what to do
during an earthquake and
know where tsunami routes
are if they live near the
coast. Oregon OEM is urg-
ing all Oregonians to par-
ticipate in the Great Oregon
ShakeOut earthquake drill
on October 15 at 10:15 a.m.
It is part of the nation’s larg-
est earthquake drill, and
last year more than 390,000
Oregonians participated.
Register at http://shakeout.
org/oregon/register/ and take
steps to make your family
safer.
For more information
on preparedness go to the
Oregon Office of Emergency
Management preparedness
page: http://www.oregon.
gov/OMD/OEM/Pages/
preparedness_information.
aspx.
Accident Sisters youths work
on Highway on Madras house
20 knocks
out power
A single-vehicle crash on
Highway 20 at Fryrear Road
knocked out power and closed
the highway for a couple of
hours Wednesday afternoon,
July 15.
Cloverdale firefighters
responded to the wreck. Chief
Thad Olson told The Nugget
that a westbound vehicle left
the roadway at the Fryrear
Road curve and struck a road
sign and a power pole. The
collision brought down two
power lines, one of which fell
over the highway. There was
also a fuel spill.
The female juvenile driver
and her mother, both of
Sisters, suffered minor injuries
due to airbag deployment and
broken glass, Olson reported.
The highway was closed
for almost three hours as a
Central Electric Cooperative
crew dealt with the fallen
power line and firefighters
cleaned up the fuel spill.
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