Maybe redemption has stories to tell, maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Sitting in the car with my father on our way to ICS 100 training at 7 o'clock yesterday morning, I nervously recounted the dream I had about my mother the previous night. "She was driving like a maniac, dad- frankly I was a little nervous letting her out of my sight to drive to our conference today." In my dream, a cop was following us, but it was very congenial because the guy knew her through her involvingment with Vermont Emergency Management. "I know what you mean," he replied, telling his own dream wherein she stopped on a railroad track to turn into a one-way entrance for a parking lot and asked him if she could go in "No." he said, not realizing a train was coming. Evidently they barely pulled out of the way in time.
What does that MEAN when your father dreams about your mother trying to take the two of them out of danger, but he doesn't fully comprehend the situation and wants her to do something else? Am I reading too much into it?
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ICS 100 (it goes up to 402, my mother is trained to 400 and I have level 300 knowledge without certification) is the basic level of the Incident Command System strategy FEMA ignored in New Orleans. ICS was successfully implemented in Mississippi and Texas, which is why disaster management there went so smoothly in comparison. ICS is not based on politics- obvious if you know the system, but an AMAZING revelation when you hear a government official actually SAY it- i.e. the highest "position" in any regular agency has NO MEANING inside any particular incident, but rather who is there and is best qualifed for a certain position is it, is incident commander or whatever).
The systems are always in place for these events, and as I learn more and more that there really IS a high level of competence in Homeland Security sub-agencies, I become more interested in this sort of thing as a career.
What does that MEAN when your father dreams about your mother trying to take the two of them out of danger, but he doesn't fully comprehend the situation and wants her to do something else? Am I reading too much into it?
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ICS 100 (it goes up to 402, my mother is trained to 400 and I have level 300 knowledge without certification) is the basic level of the Incident Command System strategy FEMA ignored in New Orleans. ICS was successfully implemented in Mississippi and Texas, which is why disaster management there went so smoothly in comparison. ICS is not based on politics- obvious if you know the system, but an AMAZING revelation when you hear a government official actually SAY it- i.e. the highest "position" in any regular agency has NO MEANING inside any particular incident, but rather who is there and is best qualifed for a certain position is it, is incident commander or whatever).
The systems are always in place for these events, and as I learn more and more that there really IS a high level of competence in Homeland Security sub-agencies, I become more interested in this sort of thing as a career.