Coast Guard/LVH CERT Team

The Coast Guard Helicopter will be evaluating the LVH Clubhouse Parking Lot as a drop/pickup zone on Nov 8th. They will be working over marine radio with the CERT team on the ground in the evaluation process.

Our CERT team will also have elements stationed at the Golf Course where the helicopter may make a landing on the driving range in a simulation of an injury pick up. Coordination for this part of the event still is not solid so we are working on it.

We are a part of an exercise taking place up and down the coast in preparation for a major disaster...

Last week the entire Central Coast CERT team underwent training at the Coast Guard Air Facility at Newport Airport. Teams learned helicopter proceedures including lifting to the helicopter injured dummies by means of the on board hoist and Stokes litter.

This new exercise will help us set up for the disaster we hope never to see...

You folks in the park are welcome to attend our meetings on Mondays at 10 am in the clubhouse. We are woefully understaffed for a disaster to the point that it is pretty scary to think less than 10 older folks are going to be able to care for 265 older residents. There will be no firemen, police, or first aid folks after a major disaster they will be strained past the breaking limits... It could be many days before help arrives... The CERT team is trained to fill the breach as best it can.

Think about those numbers 10 CERT's to serve 265... This really makes me glum... When are the 10 to sleep? To eat? Will they catch a break? Or just run until they drop?

We meet for an hour or so a week on Tuesdays, 10am, at the clubhouse to train. Can you spare an hour? If you are a young one so much the better. We lost 2 team members this year... one because of health and another passed away.

Help!

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 4.0 055 S HOMER, AK. 0046Z OCT 23: Tsunami NOT expected

What is she lookin at?

Look into Kitty's eyes.. what is the reflection you see?

History of North Oregon Coast Dunes Reads Like An Alien Movie

History of North Oregon Coast Dunes Reads Like An Alien Movie: "Horning said old photos of Gearhart show the beach right below the houses along the west side of town. All of the dune, nearly 2000 ft of it, has developed since about 1900."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 7.0 TONGA ISLANDS 0511Z OCT 19: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

Observatory - Worm Grunting - A Mystery Solved - NYTimes.com

Observatory - Worm Grunting - A Mystery Solved - NYTimes.com: "Worm grunting, also known as worm fiddling or charming, involves driving a wooden stake into the ground and rubbing the top of it with a leaf spring or other flat piece of steel to make a grunting or snoring noise. Done in the right place under the right conditions, the result will be hundreds earthworms appearing on the surface of the ground."

Information Statement

Information Statement: M 6.7 NEAR COAST OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO 1942Z OCT 16: Tsunami NOT expected along US west coast,BC,and AK

iGoogle

iGoogle: "Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Goodman"

Local News: Coming Soon To A Rear-View Mirror Near You | recruits, training, troopers :

Local News: Coming Soon To A Rear-View Mirror Near You | recruits, training, troopers :: "Nineteen recruit troopers will be assigned to the Patrol Services Division (PSD) and two others will be assigned to the Fish & Wildlife Division (FWD). After successfully completing their training they will report to Albany, Coos Bay (1 trooper on patrol), Florence, Klamath Falls (2 troopers on patrol), Newport, Ontario, Pendleton, Salem, Springfield, The Dalles, Tillamook and Tualatin."

BUS SERVICE!!!!!

AN EMAIL FROM LARRY HENSON...

Great news - Hooray - Starting October 14, 2008 Longview Hills will have bus service. The buss will be stopping at the Longview Hills Community Center 5 times daily seven days a week.

Times are:

8:51 AM

10:44 AM

12:18 PM

3:02 PM

4:55 PM

details displayed at the community center

Wave Energy Generator Deployment

Wave Energy Generator Deployment: "Wave Energy Generator Deployment

Footage of the deployment of a Wave Energy Generator off the coast of Oregon
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A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM TO 9 AM PDT SUNDAY
FOR SW WA & NW OR.

Video Demonstration: How to Tie a Bowline Knot

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"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."

Retirement plan

Advice to take to heart, or at least somewhere down there.
Retirement Plan---

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now
be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.

With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have
$49.00 left.

If you had purchased United Airlines, you would ha ve nothing left.

But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all
the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily
and recycle.


This is called the…

"401-Keg Plan".

Got Address on yer post light? Read on...

California Democrat: "The lack of house or business numbers are a problem for any kind of emergency response, whether fire or medical. According to Smith, a good visible house number is not only helpful, it is vital for a quick response.

He said just about the worst moment for emergency responders is driving an ambulance or other emergency response vehicle slowly along a residential street on a dark night looking for non-existent or hard to see house numbers after a call."

Frost Warning!

ON SAT MORNING MIN TEMPS ARE LIKELY TO BE IN THE
LWR TO MID 30S WITH UPPER 20S POSSIBLE IN OUTLYING AREAS AWAY
FROM CITIES. MANY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE THE FIRST FROST OF
THE FALL SEASON. BE SURE TO PROTECT ANY TENDER OR VULNERABLE
PLANTS FROM THE NEAR FREEZING TEMPS.