Friday, October 30, 2015

Happy Camp Copes with Crime and Emergency

©Judy Bushy reprinted from Siskiyou Daily News August, 2015
While there is more free time before the summer ends, plan to go to the Neighborhood Watch meeting the first Monday of the month. The Community Emergency Resource Team meets at the same time. 
There has been concern on Facebook about the reports that we are about a hundred years “overdue” for a big earthquake in the West Coast. That makes me grateful not to be living in Seattle, Portland or San Francisco! But it did say that if the big 9.? Quake comes, everything west of I-5 would be toast…not literally of course!
Block diagram of southwest B.C. showing the Juan de Fuca plate descending beneath North America along a subduction zone.
Block diagram of southwest B.C. showing the Juan de Fuca plate descending beneath North America along a subduction zone.

Happy Campers handle electric outages, flood and wildfire with capability that you wouldn’t imagine! But it is a reminder that having water and some basic food and camping gear is a great benefit to get along relatively comfortably in an emergency. See how you could help your neighbors and be prepared yourself if calamity comes! At the same time, show your support to those working to make our community safer and more crime free when they meet the first Monday of each month.Contact Becky Tiraterra or Lisa Scott for further information and to volunteer to help with the Happy Camp Neighborhood Watch program!

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