So, it's the midyear compliance training season at All Your Phones Are Belong To Us (Yes, Even That One,) and we just took the second episode of Emergency Preparedness, where a bearded bald actor in a black T-shirt that says "Disaster" torments a nice young man in a suit and tie with the jacket off because we're all just friends here, talking about ( Read more... )

So, the next thing after CERT is Search and Rescue training by Cobb County, GA. Among the things we learned was how to use a compass like this and a topo map (I can't find a good link) to do things like backward azimuth (which is really funny when you say it out loud.) In land navigation, I learned three things ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago now, I took CERT (Citizen Emergency Response Team) training and neglected to go back for the second half of day two on account of a carb heavy lunch and an unplanned siesta. So now I'm making up the day in full, because they might not cover the units in the same order ( Read more... )

Behind the cut is a picture of my sofa with my CERT bag and a quarter metric tonne of medical supplies, mainly various sizes of bandages. (I had no idea there were 8x10 bandages.) The CERT training materials suggests what to buy and that we organize it, but it a little short on how.
( Read more... )

So, I had my first of three Saturdays devoted to CERT training today. Highlight ( Read more... )