Shake Day

RicInOR · Oct 18, 2017

How are you going to participate?

My client is holding the drill, forcing us to get under our desks (bench) and then patrolling the building for compliance.

https://www.shakeout.org/

RicInOR · Oct 19, 2017

t-minus 10 mins, and my 2 coworkers are, mysteriously, absent.
Somebody is going to get "not a team player" on their annual peer-peer reviews.

rick benjamin · Oct 19, 2017

The time: This morning
The place: Kaiser Rockwood
The reason: Get my bp taken and flu shot.
EARTHQUAKE Drill!
Good thing my bp was normal...

nammac · Oct 19, 2017

Wait, there was an earthquake drill?

Guess my company doesn't care about us, no preparedness... seems we'd all be statistics, then who'll do the work

RicInOR · Oct 19, 2017

My co-worker reports hearing the test of the Emergency broadcast system on the radio, while he was getting a 'breakfast' burrito. More like early Elevenses.

Camelfilter · Oct 19, 2017

Had a chat with several coworkers in regards to this ("the big shake - up"), and may have actually interested a few into taking a little action.

Conversation was a simple one in regards to having a 72hr kit always at the ready in case there was any type of issue. Used the CA wildfires as an example where some folk only survived escaping there homes with the clothes on there backs.

Kept the convo simple.

Have copies of important documents, policies, diplomas, family histories, medical histories, contact #'s etc in the bag. Digital format is easy enough to do these days, plus can video the house & anything in it for insurance.

A few changes of clothes, season dependent. Simple outerwear, season dependent. Some snacks & 3 gallons of water setting near it. Per person. Plus pet food/treats.

Didn't get into firearms / personal safety / protection at all. As that is up to the individual (they all know I'm a 2A guy, a few of them are as well).

TeacherSmurf · Oct 19, 2017

We had the bus evacuation drill the end of 1st period, an earthquake drill the beginning of 2nd period and a lock-down drill the end of 2nd period. I still think we should have thrown in a surprise fire drill 3rd period, just for fun.

On a side note, I really think businesses (especially stores) should do this.

Stomper · Oct 19, 2017

Dude, this is Oregon... if you want shake, you can buy it at any cannibus shop.

CoastRange57 · Oct 19, 2017

Stomper said:
Dude, this is Oregon... if you want shake, you can buy it at any cannibus shop.

Those shops carry shake ?? Must have been that $ 4 a gram sh*t in the store in Rockaway. Why would you want shake ??

CoastRange57 · Oct 19, 2017

The extent of my quake preparation was to get on Facebook and make fun of the people hiding under their cubicle desks and taking selfies and posting them. My ridicule consisted of taunting them about ceilings smashing their desk and then their heads like the elephants stomping their fall pumpkins at the zoo.

Since there was no power outages, no traffic jams, no looting, no gas fed fires, no grid failures, no water and sewer failures, no bridges and overpass collapse's, then I would say the simulations were a complete waste of time and money, but all the government people got to take some time off to catch a smoke not on their coffee break.