Archive for August, 2011
For the past 4 years I have been Project Director for Coastal Storm Plan Training, based at the City University of New York School of Professional Studies. With both classroom and online courses, we trained over 25,000 City storm staff and volunteers for their responsibilities in the emergency sheltering system for New York City. I […]
Among the natural disasters that might strike the NYC area, earthquakes rank very low on the list of probability. So it was startling yesterday when I felt that rocking motion. There was no construction going on, and the rocking was steady and all encompassing. As I work in emergency preparedness and response training in the […]