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September 19, 2006
A message from Anne Culver - VP Montgomery County CERT
Subject: CERT Committee Work
Date: 9/19/2006
Hello CERT Members!
Sorry I missed the October meeting but I was with you all in spirit! I heard
from someone who was in the class next door (the CERT Basic) that you all were
laughing, applauding, and generally rowdy, so I guess you all were enjoying
yourselves.
I would like to start working with the committees, so if you have been
“volunteered” by your committee to lead it, please send me your name and the
names and email addresses of people on your committee. I have most everyone’s
email address anyway, so if you don’t know it, I will probably have it.
If you are not on a committee and would like to be, please let me know that,
too. There are some people who have volunteered recently and I hope I have
responded to all of them.
We will work up a task list and timetable for each committee, so we can all have
the joy of accomplishment. I have some tasks already for some of the groups. The
CERT officers (Tom, Rafael, Bob Wirth, and I) will each have a few committees to
coach, so as not to overextend the span of control (remember your ICS!).
Thanks again for all your work. You are a great group of people and this is a
lot of fun for me – and I hope for you, too.
All the best,
Anne
Anne Culver
Vice President,
Montgomery County (MD) CERT
June 30, 2006
A message from Anne Culver - VP Montgomery County CERT
Hello
you all!
As of now, Montgomery County CERT is stood down from the rain
and flooding event that started last Monday.
At 0500 on June 30, the
leafleting activity based out of Earl B Wood Middle School was concluded.
Thanks to all who came out to perform this important duty, our sincere
appreciation and thanks for a great effort. You all performed totally
professionally and with wonderful good nature, despite being tired and
overworked, and you all impressed the heck out of the county police!
As you probably know, the Needwood Lake area evacuation order has been lifted
and residents are almost all home now. Later this morning, the shelter at
Wheaton HS will close.
Thanks to all of you who responded in the field
in various areas and at the shelters, and also to those who supported the
field effort, sending out messages to keep us all posted, making calls, etc.
Also we appreciate those who stood by ready to come in on schedules throughout
the week and weekend. Your helpful and courteous actions at the shelter(s)
helped hundreds of people at a very difficult time. If you were not able to
come out with us this week, we look forward to working with you in the future.
A couple of housekeeping items:
- If you were activated BEFORE
the formal sign-in/sign-out roster was established, please send your work
hours, including from the time you left home to the time you returned, to
Anne.
- And please, while your experience is fresh, make some notes on
what went well, what didn't, and what are your practical suggestions for
improvement (for CERT or anyone else). You may either email them to Anne or
bring them to the regular monthly CERT meeting, July 13 at 7 pm (or 1900
hours, as we all know it now).
The next meeting will consist of a
facilitated After Action Review discussion, and also an interactive discussion
of the work we have ahead of us, particularly committee development and
tasking based in what the membership advises and what the county needs.
It's up to all of us to continue to improve Mo.Co. CERT– we have added to
our "resume" this week in grand fashion!
Thanks to all of you.
Anne
Anne Culver
VP Mo.Co. CERT
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