http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2008/06/18/maryland-emergency-breakdown-underscores-importance-of-email-alerts-to-citizens-response-as-well-as-role-of-human-factor-in-preparedness-20/ A Citizen’s Eye View of Public Preparedness Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2008/06/18/maryland-emergency-breakdown-underscores-importance-of-email-alerts-to-citizens-response-as-well-as-role-of-human-factor-in-preparedness-20/comment-page-1/#comment-288 admin Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:12:00 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=146#comment-288 bruce- thanks for the local angle on this. i also appreciate your recent post on father's day -- http://poetslife.blogspot.com/2008/06/fathers-protect-your-children.html -- which also draws from your personal experience with disaster. -john bruce-
thanks for the local angle on this. i also appreciate your recent post on father’s day —
http://poetslife.blogspot.com/2008/06/fathers-protect-your-children.html — which also draws from your personal experience with disaster.
-john

]]> http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2008/06/18/maryland-emergency-breakdown-underscores-importance-of-email-alerts-to-citizens-response-as-well-as-role-of-human-factor-in-preparedness-20/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Bruce Curley Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:21:40 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=146#comment-285 This is why you rely on yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors and only as a s last resort government employees. As they are not held accountable and cannot be fired, this Marx Brothers movie emergency response happens happens over and over. Take a page from the citizens of Salt Lake City who in the early 80's channeled the overflowing waters of the Great Salt Lake through their city and down to Lake Provo...on their own. “The system worked,” Aoyagi said. “We failed.” No...the system is broken and both the lazy government workers and the system (government) failed. I work in a bio-tech company in Montgomery County and the county was useless for getting answers during this event. They're useless on a daily basis so it is not surprise that they would fail so in an emergency. For that level of incompetence, they are paid huge salaries by the highly taxes citizenry. Oy vey... This is why you rely on yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors and only as a s last resort government employees. As they are not held accountable and cannot be fired, this Marx Brothers movie emergency response happens happens over and over.
Take a page from the citizens of Salt Lake City who in the early 80’s channeled the overflowing waters of the Great Salt Lake through their city and down to Lake Provo…on their own.
“The system worked,” Aoyagi said. “We failed.” No…the system is broken and both the lazy government workers and the system (government) failed.
I work in a bio-tech company in Montgomery County and the county was useless for getting answers during this event. They’re useless on a daily basis so it is not surprise that they would fail so in an emergency.
For that level of incompetence, they are paid huge salaries by the highly taxes citizenry.
Oy vey…

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