Did you find a lesson in the storm?
Had you been living in Lincoln City and your electricity failed (at LVH that means no water also) and your phones went dead including the 911 system and no cell phones for several days .. even those medic alert pendants did not work. Would you see things a bit differently? How would you call the hospital? Do you know how to get your car out of the garage when their is no power? These could have been your problems if the storm had taken a minute change to the south.
Here at LVH we have a communications system that does not depend on power. We can talk with all the agencies with complete loss of power and phones, including cell phones... Here is how it works... You call CERT on your FRS radio... They do two things, they dispatch a team to your location trained in rescue and first aid. They call our on duty Ham operator which was Ed Simon or myself. The HAM communicates with emergency services in the county court house via ham radio and tells them what is needed. Simple as that.. We don't need power to do it. Everything is done by battery. Everything is in place from CERT's end. You are the one that needs to get things done. Many of you have... a lot have not. Your part of the equation is to buy a set of FRS radios with a battery charger and learn how to use them. CERT will provide training to all that request it. CERT has put #'s on many lamp posts through out the park and they carry a set of maps that allow them to locate any home in seconds and respond to a call within a matter of minutes. You should use 911 if possible but when it's not possible do you have an FRS radio charged and ready to go? Why not?
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