SCANUSA

Folks,

 My quest to find a rapid means to notify the entire community including all the outlying areas and Lincoln County has finally come to fruition. It's FREE. It's new and you may not have heard about it yet. I hope you visit the link included in this mail and find out what a great thing we have here as a communication tool. AT&T and government have come together to create the technology to bring this system to all Americans. Here is what it does...

Say there is an alert. Let's pick a tsunami alert for instance. Scan USA is tuned into all Emergency alert centers. They receive the alert and pass it to their network. If you are a registered user the alert will come to you in the following ways (pick as many as you want) FAX,Email,Cell phone,Aol Messenger,Yahoo Messenger,ICQ, MSN Messenger. Within seconds of it being broadcast.

You pick from a list (again as many as you want) of alert types you want. Here are the types of alerts:

• FDA Recall
• Neighborhood Crime
• Public Safety Announcement
• Local Emergency Alert
• Homland Security Alert
• Fire
• Traffic Emergency
• Health Advisory
• Weather Alert
• Tsunami Alert
• Health Emergency
• Environmental Alert
• Cyber Alert
• Consumer Fraud
• Consumer Information
• Sexual Predator Alert
  

Now some of them will require you professionals.. Police and Fire Cheif's to register with them so that you can put on local alerts. Think of how you will be able to impact the safety of the community just by having an alert broadcast! Things that never could be put out in time before are out to the public instantly.

 

Take a look. Here is the link...Take a look.

ScanUSA

http://www.scanusa.com

George Vaughan

Tsunami-Detecting Network in Development, Researchers to Develop Network of Ocean-Floor, Mobile Sensors That Will Help Detect Tsunamis - CBS News

Tsunami-Detecting Network in Development, Researchers to Develop Network of Ocean-Floor, Mobile Sensors That Will Help Detect Tsunamis - CBS News: "Tsunami-Detecting Network in Development
Researchers to develop network of ocean-floor, mobile sensors that will help detect tsunamis"

Emergency Notification Please Read this

If you are a child or grandchild of someone in our community I want you to hound them to get this done. If you are a resident that does not have to be hounded do this right now. If you have expertise as a professional nagger we need you now. Naggers we love you... Make this a cause. Block Captains ..plead, cajole and make funny faces. Everyone get this done and don't rest until everyone you know and don't know has it. Welcome committee point this out..

We have given you a sample in the last few weeks. You have seen the weather alerts flashing on our page. That is only a part of the emergency notification network. Be notified of all emergencies in Lincoln County no matter where you are.

Be notified of these categories that you select (FREE):

Severe Weather Information
HOMELAND SECURITY Code
CYBER Threats to your computer (limited time Free trial)
Organ Donation
Daily Weather Forecasts (if available)
Routine Blood Drives/Red Cross
MISSING CHILDREN AMBER ALERTS (as available)
DO NOT SEND National Disaster News
Keep this service FREE. I agree to receive
info from our Sponsors WHO make it possible(they send ads to your computer with the alert RT)

Select how you will be notified:

email
Computer or Blackberry
Cell Phone
Digital Pager
FAX

Here is the link to the page: (This is the form to fill out. At the top you can go back to the home page and read all about it) If grandma doesn't have email you can sign her cell phone up to receive messages if she agrees.)

http://www.emergencyemail.org/add.asp?src=&lc=41410

We are thinking this is a good way to get Neighborhood Watch notification of really important emergencies.

This article was originally posted on the Longview Hills website but is also showing up on the Newport and North Lincoln County CERT webistes. If you are a police or fire official or emergency official look at his website to determine if we need to get this out to all the community and all CERTS

Hood River in the recent Storm. Sent in by Ed Simon.

Look at this map...

Very, very neat.

The purple dots indicate current earthquakes... Mouse pointer over them and you get all the data real time... try it. Do we need this as a link?

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/eventmap.html

News - StatesmanJournal.com

News - StatesmanJournal.com: "A flu pandemic would involve three components: A new virus emerges, for which people have little or no immunity; the virus is easily spread; and no is vaccine available, said Jamie Baxter, an emergency room nurse and certified safety officer with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Baxter said there are 36,000 flu-related deaths nationwide each year and an additional 200,000 are hospitalized."

View The Statistics Page for this website...

You may be interested in the statistics that this website generates. There are several bar graphs showing different things including the # of times a person visits the site and where from.

Scan down until you find the counter at the bottom of the left side of the page. Just below that we have a new link put in. Click the link and you can go to our Stats page... Once there try all the different ways to view information on the site by using the links on the left side of the page... Want to know who has been reading your page? Give it a test drive.

Oregon Wind Storm - November 23, 1998

Oregon Wind Storm - November 23, 1998: "Oregon Wind Storm - November 23, 1998

Tye W. Parzybok & George H. Taylor

Oregon Climate Service

November 24, 1998

* Overview - During the afternoon and evening hours of Monday, November 23, 1998 most of Oregon was hit with high winds and periods of heavy precipitation. This marked the first major storm of the season with wind gusts to 100 mph along the coast and generally 50 to 70 mph elsewhere in Oregon. Downed trees and limbs knocked out power to thousands in the Willamette Valley and cluttered streets with debris."

Ice storms

A summary of Ice Storms in Oregon RT

Ice storms: "A warm front overrunning cold air trapped in western Oregon valleys and the Columbia Gorge produced an ice storm causing widespread disruption of traffic and power outages in the Willamette Valley and Coast Range valleys. Freezing rain began over the Willamette Valley during the afternoon of February 3 and continued throughout the night and into the next day. Numerous traffic accidents were reported including a 100 car minor damage pileup near Salem. One fatality occurred when a car lost control on the ice, slid off the road and flipped over near Lincoln City."