From n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying President Trump is expressing condolences to the families of those killed and wounded in an attack this morning at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola Florida Trump tweets and he has spoken with Saudi King Solomon about the mass shooting in that film and thought to assure him that the assailant quote in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people however Florida Governor Rod Stanton says the Saudi government should be help Harley responsible for the attack since it was one of its own servicemembers training on the u.s. Base who used the banned handgun to kill 3 people and injure several others before authorities fatally shot him one of the things that I talk to the president about is given that this is a foreign national in the employ of a Foreign Service and over time to do this by but obviously the government of Saudi Arabia needs to make make things better for these victims and I think the very they're going to death here given that this is one of their individual several 100 foreign nationals are currently training at the air base just 2 days ago a u.s. Navy sailor fatally shot 2 civilians and wounded a 3rd at Pearl Harbor Hawaii before he took his own life it's still unclear if the gunman knew his victims North Korea and been warning of a Christmas surprise N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports the u.s. Which is currently the president of the United Nations Security Council says the international community is united against North Korea. Missile test us Ambassador Kelly craft as promised her colleagues they'll be home for Christmas North Korea though has been hinting at more missile tests Craft says she is worried about the 13 recent launches and the prospect for more the council is very unified on the fact that we are all very concerned in it doesn't matter whether it's Christmas or whether it's morrow or whether it's February we're all very concerned or news conference comes a day after she brought her colleagues to the White House for lunch with President Trump where North Korea and Iran were among the topics discussed Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department well hiring surged in November u.s. Employers added 2 166000 jobs N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley says the country has now been adding jobs for a record 110 consecutive months November's job gain was the biggest since January and suggest the labor market continues to chug along despite slowing economic growth and fallout from the president's trade war the number was boosted in part by the 41000 people who return to work after the General Motors strike but job growth would have been strong even without that average wage growth is still modest at just over 3 percent but White House economist Tom Phillips and says That's more than enough to outpace inflation if you look at the purchasing power of that wage it has increased the last year because prices have come down good Unemployment dipped to just 3 and a half percent in November matching the lowest rate in nearly 50 years Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington this is n.p.r. . 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Weekend in the key b.m.r. F.m. About the case the p.c. Can you know I'm your host prickly pear here today named for an acting with disability rap. My other half is in humid air some executive director of neighborhood center of the arts. And with me here I have Aaron Aaron all and I'm with here a foothill village and the executive director there and then I brought 2 of my guests from neighborhood center of the arts we have here in the mike so we can hear you Christina Christina and Spencer So they're artist of the neighborhood center of the are and we're here just to share Aaron and Aaron from Sara Foothill village and Amy mid-air is here from neighborhood center of the arts we are to a nonprofit in about a county who were awarded grants. Through lease those California in order to help educate educate community members within our community either seniors or folks with disabilities on emergency preparedness I'm a little bit about that from what I know and help me out here. Yes So basically I actually think it might think that just to read a little bit just a little bit more and then read this little blurb that California at least the campaign did actually prepare but the idea is there was an awareness after the last series of fires that what was happening is people who had access issues or people who were isolated geographically or people who are older where people with disabilities people were not actually getting their needs met in terms of the capacity to post a vacuum and to prepare for emergencies so that there was a huge gap in our you know of course we live in a culture that designs things for people who live a certain way and it isn't you know it isn't designed in such a way that all humans can use it so the important thing there is that when there's an emergency that because of the design flaws that we've incorporated into our transportation system that what it means is that people who have different needs can't actually. Survive in some cases so it's a really big issue and so what happened is Governor Newsom recognized this issue and decided to. Launch some legislation that was passed that provided 50000000 dollars to try to radically increase make a huge difference in the number of people who had emergency preparing training preparedness training and information if they were in a population that might have a harder time accessing what they needed in an emergency so that's the campaign that we're talking about correct right so I thought I do think it's Ok to read it yeah when you're not here. So here's. Here's what Lisa's California provided in a press release I believe the state of California is no stranger to the harsh reality of wildfire and other natural disasters far too often the people in communities hit hardest by these disasters are those often missing or left out of preparedness activities and least equipped to deal with them and their lasting impacts governor knew some and state lawmakers together invested $50000000.00 even got in the right through urgency legislation a.b. 72 to establish the California for all emergency preparedness campaign as a joint effort between California Volunteers and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services callow Yes it is a new effort to boost disaster preparedness by connecting over 1000000 of the most vulnerable Californians to culturally and linguistically competent support to a grassroots people centered approach to ensure success the campaign empowers and engages local communities on emergency preparedness to support California's diverse and vulnerable populations which can be left which can be described by social by socially vulnerable social vulnerability factors including social isolation poverty language barriers and other access and functional needs challenges. Within this program that we are helping educate our community has been broken down. It's been modified and it's one thing when we met at a few of our meetings are so many words and many pamphlets and many booklets and it was very overwhelming because you know for a lot of us who might have a learning disability or a visual impairment like we open that packet to educate ourselves and we're instantly turned off because maybe we can't read that much maybe the text is small so that was a part of the discussion around the round table with one of our. Louis right supporters there so he together the state helped to modify the. So they're easier to share with our friends who might have a disability a learning disability physical disability. You name it. So it's very useful I'm excited to be part of this new campaign. To learn more work for us. Super exciting because it's about making sure not telling everybody what to do but making sure that they've thought through and providing them with a platform and order to be successful in a merchant. Which doesn't always mean fire. Could be yes yes yes yes right which could be any it might not be emergency for some people and it might be an emergency for someone who has you know medical equipment or something that's like supporting or even just their mode of transportation that has to be plugged in for them to work right or a machine that keeps them alive 24 hours a day is no longer available to them and a lot of people might say well get a generator but maybe that's not in your budget to support yourself that generator so just providing these 4 steps which will go over in a little while and then also to let the community know and our listeners know if there's ever more information you need or you know you're thinking and sitting here thinking that I could definitely use the support of getting a better plan but I am kind of nervous and scared about it there is a list of agencies here that can help you do that that's what that's why we are presented this grant and to make ourselves available for you we will be doing trainings in the future and workshops in the future this is all up coming but we're just now starting to fill your hole with the idea of it it's on its way and there are 7 incredible non-profits. You know we serve the population who are ready to roll. Are you going to read non-profits I know that on our website we have a little more information and some links to click with that be useful to give that . So we don't have all that within the next week or so that we'll have all the organizations listed on our website as well that today we do not but for today we have Village dot org That's Sierra foothills Village dot org And if you click the emergency preparedness tab it'll give you some links to organizations we're working with so that's kind of helping us as a coalition it's called Pacific Center so I think their Web site is specifically dot org And we can get some of the other other organizations all of us are going through we have a lot of information that we're absorbing right now because the campaign is just beginning as Amy was mentioning but all of us have the capacity to hook you up with someone who can train not only to be able to put together an awesome emergency preparedness packet and you know strategy for yourself but also we can train groups of people so for example if you have a neighborhood association or if you have provide social services and you need people who are going to be offering services to a person who needs an emergency plan we can train them as well so maybe just reading we should we just read we have read Center for Independent. That's in grass . I can give you a phone number if you will just have a. Name and phone numbers so they're 530-477-3333 we have Nevada connecting point public authority their phone number is 530745601. Area for or 916-486-1876 Gold Country Community Services. Their phone numbers 530-615-4541 neighborhood center of the art 530-272-7287 into your foothills villages 530-205-3326 the food bank of Nevada County especially 02723796 so that is just a quick learner duction of what we're learning and what's upcoming And I brought my guests in because I've been practicing on teaching them you know emergency prepared plans emergency kit being ready and the last 60 s p S's or 7 rather We've had great practice and as well as like having a. Program that you go to every day like my plan of evacuating 75 people like How do you do that and how do you keep everybody safe and what what's the plan to keep people safe once you've left your building. So I think one of the key things we want to emphasize is you know we're getting so much information these days about emergency preparedness and we have this ready set go these 3 steps that people keep talking about but one of the things that's missing is a way if I have you know different needs and other folks if I'm an aging person who just realized that I can't really quite see at night enough well to well enough to drive at night and I realize I need. A disability who might be using a wheelchair to get around how do how is my plan going to be different from other people and the reality is probably all of us are almost all of us are going to encounter some quotes and quotes disability or at you know an access issue you know functional needs issue in the course of our lives so it's not just for a special population it's really for all of us as we go through what we go through in life and as our needs change so the idea of this particular approach that's different than those other approaches and why it's important and why we're all excited about engaged is it has 4 steps and it adds a step we'll go through each step but what it adds is really you know making sure to do the step of prioritizing your health needs and create lists to really try to make sure that your personal needs are you know your plan is uniquely tailored to your needs and that's that's really kind of what we're all about emphasizing today so I don't know maybe we should just go through the 4 steps. You have you find your 5 trusted allies and share your plan so that's one that's usually in a lot of emergency plans right and that's the idea is you know there's a little they have a little description here included many different ways to contact each person is possible phone numbers e-mails and addresses contact each person in your group of allies to get their agreement and keep your list updated right and another thing we've learned is not rely on your phone. To have all that information is super important to have that handwritten one example of my friends have taught me what they have in their bags as well because maybe your phone is no longer charged up and you can't access the phone numbers Another great. Thought is good to know it's a great opportunity to get to know who lives next door to you and encourage each other to know one another's plan that they're going to be your ally in an emergency . Going to some other ideas or make copies of your lists and keep them where it will be easy to find any on your fridge or 8 or more in the front door and your purse or wallet and your glove box of your vehicle if you have one and then save in your phone and or other devices and maybe even just written down you can share a copy with your members of your group your other allies other ideas are put a copy in a sealed plastic bag in each of your emergency supply kit or go bag your car kit with you Kit cetra and then check in with the trusted allies often expression and red flag warning day that's another good idea step do you have anything else you want to share about Step one. Right now do you have any ideas and hope oh I know both of you we've practiced many times your my training and. Practice. I know sometimes people have a hard time thinking of who their trusted contacts are especially folks we visit quite a number of people people who become members of village are often folks who are isolated and have maybe can't drive or need help and that's why they contact us so we can give them rides and so they're in a situation where oh gosh I don't some of them are like I don't really have someone to list as a trusted contact right and have you guys sell us out or have any ideas about that asking for a bus so everybody who has my name on the list I can actually go help them because that's the issue we've run into it neighborhoods are a lot of our friends there are artists with special abilities they might not have family within the community and we've been accessed in our program together for 15 years so we've become one another's family so all of a sudden you have like a list of 45 people on your like need to check in with or those 45 people have you is number one for their. That's hard to manage 25 people who live in 45 different part and. So just educating your friends like don't be afraid to knock on your neighbor's door No Christine here is done a really good job it didn't know her neighbors and they shared phone numbers and plans and that's sometimes a little embarrassing to get out and get to know people but that's worked for you right yeah you guys have communicated back and forth. And and have a plan to look out for one another super helpful and you don't feel so alone in those moments because you can check in and see if she's at the apartment what. Can be pretty open to being asked that like what was their response any time to call us . So because a lot of times that's an opportunity like being aware of the crisis but you know people can freak out in crises but mostly people seem to like their hearts open our hearts open in crises so if we're like thinking about that and thinking about how to do that often it'll create a really like a sweet opportunity to build a relationship with neighbors that's going to have any right right sense or. Not that time. Number 2 2nd step is prioritize your health needs and create lists that's what I read before these are lists of your medication disability related supplies or equipment anything else you need to really. Decide what medication equipment you need every day to be independent write down where you keep them and any information about them you might need during a disaster emergency this information can be useful for your trusted allies 1st responders or shelter staff there might be Phone apps you can use to help develop these lists as well as having a written or printed list. All about the printed and printed a list and not relying on your phone at all times and knowing your charger is known before the show started Christine and I were talking you know it's always nice to have extra meds but not all are not always reported by your insurance agent or your pharmacy for getting that back up supply but they have a list and Christina tell us how your meds are kept at home kept in a plastic bag to pry have to grab the mike so they're all in one spot ready to go. So and also I think it's important one of the things that I've been aware of and working with village is Ok we're you know the idea is you know if you're a person who's had the same disability for 30 years you kind of know what you need is pretty dialed in you know you know your stuff if you're somebody who just recently either just recently acquired a disability or is in a situation where you're aging and your vision is changing regularly I personally am now in that camp it's 50. 5 days and I can't actually I can read the list that is 14 point which is you know accessible from campaign but the other handouts I have I actually can't totally read them without glasses but you know for a lot of us those things change gradually but rapidly and so you don't necessarily it's really. Porn that you have what you have is accessible for you so so it's good to do this list to be like Ok I do for example if I have contact information can I access it can I read it if you're a person with a you know visual disability obviously if you're in a situation where you can't see to read that's you know and we need to depend so much on electronic devices to do so much for us then it's especially important to have it in some format that other people going to help us you know where that format that's acceptable to you but the idea is kind of figuring that out advance what if your particular needs are changing rapidly then it's really good idea to get some support and help in updating this plan so it really works for you when the time comes right because somebody who is helping you might be looking at that plan because maybe you've been removed from the building or wherever you may be and then they know what to go in and help gather for you as well the great checklist to have on your fridge for those who might be helping you and with the room to add to that list like you think grab my glasses and my contact prescription or a walker and or a wheelchair and then listing equipment like your oxygen and the equipment and other devices that you need that's also good to have that stuff written down just. Not be able to return to your home and your home is no longer there that you know what you had what needs to be replaced and to make several copies you know like we have copies at work that we can leave a folder and with that information list and besides our binders there at work we have backup for everybody all the way to step 3. And. This is I think. My most exciting one sign joy buying things. To have bags of things I might need to survive and why my car is a mess. With the great excuse to curry your emergency pull up supply are you prepared for your important need during an emergency or a disaster no matter where you are murdered so you can disasters can occur anytime and anywhere you may be at home at work on vacation or just out and about you can important items with you was key to successful emergency and disaster planning misfortune or Christina always except which I was blown away and almost like crashed the band on the way like where is your backpack like I was to have you pull your stuff out and talk about what's in it literally she is always prepared but on a trip recently and my son like his finger open and I didn't have to like thinking she's ripping out you know. Band-Aids and duct tape and it's it's got it like if you're going to be an emergency be with her. Not to carry one for all and large merchants Yeah right. To prepare just good to have as a body. Your action can be pack emergency kit to have in different places that you carry with you if you have a vehicle you can have in your car and your home or your office or your program or wherever you may be throughout the day. And part of that idea is like you know we're kind of our focus is on independent living and to be able to really like do that emergency preparedness that unfortunately in our culture is really often geared towards folks who maybe aren't just like me. And so the idea is to really take care of ourselves that way so that when there's an emergency where still you know for sure are interdependent right we're helping each other and working together because you really can't do that kind of thing alone but you're also independent in that you've assessed your needs and can really care for your well being in a way that's unique to you right because not always an emergency will there be other 2 that are available to come in here. To support you in that time of need. Step for step 4 plan how and when to evacuate. Remember And all you don't need to evacuate in all emergencies as we saw the 1st P.S.T.'s people kind of freak out and like Quick everybody go try to get to the gas station even if you didn't need gas that day so basically it's great to remember that summer you don't need to evacuate and so make sure that you know where and when so in advanced ideas to figure out what your plan is right and have multiple programs that we have discussed as well. Because every emergency different and that can be overwhelming you know it unfortunately feels like it's our new normal here in California and it won't feel so scary Unfortunately after a while ever super important to talk about and discuss with in your circle of friends within your family. So you're aware back to Step 10 in your allies of what the plan is. Other ideas and suggestions or you know register for alerts and stay informed which can be really frustrating when you're the one means that you go to check in like on your cell phone and for me personally experience on the p s p s happen my phone no longer worked like my phone is dependent on a wife and I was no longer getting cell service so I couldn't check what Pascal even that was posting or what was happening through the Facebook feed direction even checking with work friends so now I know that's a situation and maybe if I really absolutely needed it I could have some kind of battery backup that could run my internet if I needed it for now I know where to go or who I can text because my phone was only doing text Unfortunately we learn from what fails but those are important things to take note of and create your plan around. If you have the opportunity to have another emergency. Plan around what you've learned and repack your bad or work through back you ation plan. To make sure that you get some kind of register for alerts not just on your phone I mean your cell phone but maybe also on your landline if you're smart enough to still have one current an evacuation plan so you know write down your future decide to write down your exit plans and that evacuation routes in detail and where to meet for homework or where ever you usually are including how you will evacuate and where you will go if you have animals include them in your evacuation plan make sure you your family and trusted allies have a meet up location away from your neighborhood in case you are separated and then emergency or disaster now for me the folks that I serve at Neighborhood Center they are $75.00 artists with special abilities. And it is pretty much new to us I know we started talking about being prepared through people for like 2 years ago Spencer you have and when you started what the what was one of the things that you were teaching the community about. How getting ready your. Some water extra Crow toilet paper. Yeah so Spencer's people 1st group they also got a small grant to help gather emergency prepared bags and I feel like that like maybe 3 years ago that was 3 years ago we started discussing that and having a plan because a lot of the folks that we work with are independent and don't have mothers and fathers anymore or any other like circle of families so they are relying on themselves to have a plan and when you're living with their disability sometimes making that plan alone is very intimidating and confusing. Again we still California that. Their idea is to gather a group of community members to help educate those within our community that might need a little bit more assistance on being prepared and therefore agencies like your Foothill village with Aaron here we are learning and preparing to provide that platform in which to train others that might need a little bit more you know hands on one on one time to make a plan. And so if you do we can reduce numbers again but also. I think Feel free to go to. You know if we've read the Sun numbers if you want to go to a Web site you could go to steer out of foothills Village dot org Just because we do have an emergency preparedness web page there and we will be updating it to include all the names of these organizations within this week free dot org to has a Web site that probably pretty similar that they will have they have some resources there they might not have this up yet have a Neighborhood Center for that will be working on it as well this is definitely as you might feel it so work in progress for sure we're learning what. Lisa's California expects of us there are different the campaign can has. Different. Goals for us and what we have to do and. And we're also in about accounting we've noticed that we're a lot more collaborative that we're all like oh great if you guys don't have that we could totally do that but would you guys be willing to help us with this and we're all kind of gung ho to help each other out and work together and we kind of know some of the same people and you know like I recognize some of the folks here from other experiences and so that's not necessarily how it works at the state level so they're kind of like Ok well you guys have to figure this out on your own individually but the point being is that if you contact one of us all of us are available to you so if you're like I don't have the number for free but I really would feel more comfortable if them were for sure but hell diligent going to send you their way and if you want to you know if you're like gosh I got you know I spent time at the neighborhood center of the arts and but I would really like to have some advice from someone who knows about blah blah blah you know now I'm getting older and I'd like some extra help with this thing that relates to aging then we'll help you out you know right that's definitely one thing that was excited about sitting around the table with the 7 of us nonprofits how excited we were to share what our strengths were as local groups within the community. To provide these services so again fried Center for Independent Living. They have a Grass Valley office here great phone numbers 53047733. 33 Nevada senior connecting point public authority 53027456 there are one and I'm guessing if you call 2 and one you can figure you can find a pathway to a saddle right that's actually a really great resources to want an incredible resource and it's like your local Google but you're actually speaking to it live person even on your cell phone you can just dial 2 on one and it's connection to 2 to 11 which is also your connecting point and you can ask them almost anything and they can direct you in the right pathway. Aging area 491-648-6187 extension 6. Gold Country Community Services 530-615-4541 just to break it up here this is from Nevada County if you're listening for we have listeners all over the world coming throughout California who are following this so you could go to. Emerge. Our number 2 at. A large so it's the center on disability that's actually I think there an email address so I think it's a Pacific dot org or their Web site Web site and they have this research we've been reading from and trying to this for staff and they also have other videos and other kinds of materials on emergency preparedness that are pretty like accessible for whatever your favorite way to get information is not so if you're not here locally in about a county that's another access point for your neighborhood center of the Ark we'll be updating our Web site as well with a list of these agencies within the next week our number there is 530272727. Hills village 530-5332. In the food bank of Nevada County decide to $73796.00. And really it's about you know picking an organization if you're feeling like well I don't have 1st of all if you're sitting here listening to this no I got That's all very interesting but whatever and you realize I don't actually have my go bag and I don't have my emergency preparedness plan together then why not just call one of those organizations today and we will even even if all you need is you know pamphlet that help you do this we can help you out if you need someone to come and sit down with you and do this with you we can help you out so we're really there to support you and feel free to use us I also want to mention that about a county has done such a great job creating kind of a unified. You know kind of presents for emergency preparedness services we are working with them and we're actually trying to add this 4th step and they're really open to making it work for people of all sorts. They're. Ready to about a county is reading about a county dot org is out there. Trying to look up their web site real quick I have it on it is on our Web site so if you want to just click the link you can for sure Google ready Nevada County but you could also go to village dot org And there are listed on our emergency preparedness reading about a county has done a great job with their brand and that's a great way to recognize it within the community I was sharing that one of our meetings even my 5 year old son recognized what it means and understands and they have some great information as well especially for homeowners having your home prepared. We've got was part of this least as campaign is at the state level is really trying to simplify but make things rich enough so that it serves diverse populations and I think that that's like another a little another layer of making it accessible that we're hoping reading about accounting is done in such a great job of participating in our meetings that it's a huge support so that. We all may be countering some change in our capacity at some point in our lives I know I have and so we really do need to be working together so that we all of our planning that reading about a county when you go there and make an emergency plan that it's going to make sure to walk you through the steps for your particular needs as well so we are working together in that way right now we have a little bit more detail so if you need that kind of help please contact one of the organizations we mentioned but pretty soon writing about a county is also going to have that information or is there information. I. Want to share Aaron. Well I mean I think it'll be cool to just kind of have a conversation about like you know where I mean you sort of ask different questions but about where are we at in terms of emergency preparedness and Mike what are the things that we want to add just because I think you know I don't know can we get a call like I think it's great to have you know I'm. Going to work that. Always Yes but you know let's have like a little conversation about what what do you feel like is different for you at this time in your life or you know even just amongst the folks in studio like what do we need in our if we're not you know don't say anything too uncomfortable you know but what is it special in your emergency preparedness planning that's different for you than for maybe for other folks is that Ok to integrate. For me since I don't have a parent so I have other things in mind. That I have asked for money. Extra to pressure as I have already. You know what extra things do you have prepared and ready to go can just her. Medicine. And the person that I've seen how have your backpack. But it's pretty amazing to have I realize I have none of my medications are in plastic bags so that's something I need to work on. What's changed in my life is I have a child now he's at the top of that list of course if you're. Only the baby on the bus and pet you know there's a lot of opportunities where you don't have time to grab a pet. And I just have a little bit more going to they should I know a few Octobers ago when we had that fire blew through. And South County a large part of South Korea like like wild with. Were being evacuated I don't know where my keys were like any you have to put your keys in the stream but every time so I'm not spinning my whole evacuation time looking for my team so in a way better habit of having that prepared set aside in the same spot because that can throw your whole exit plan off but the other thing about this. When you get to your goal make sure at the front door where you can grab. Someone else. And having those for like 5 minutes you know I don't like the people who started out to 510 and 20 minutes I personally have had a change in my vision Recently I had a blind spot developed that really impairs my ability to read and so it still can read but it helps a lot if I have readers. And so when I can see in the other eyes just not as good. So the point is like I'm really in that place where it's like oh a lot of the stuff that I have in my you know my identification and all that if somebody wants me to read what my drivers I know that by heart but some of the stuff I don't have by heart but I have the stuff in my go bad I couldn't read it if you ask me and so I need to remember to have my reading glasses in there and it seems minor and I can you know I could survive an emergency without that the man it might take me a lot longer to navigate a bunch of stuff and it's you know it's gotten to the point where like I really can't navigate certain you know things that require reading and calling phone numbers or whatever without having So it's a little thing but it really can make a huge difference in my ability to like see if my mom got out Ok or whatever other thing is I do live next door to my mom is 85 and so are about to turn 85 and I've put a fair amount of time into trying to ask her about her plans and her evacuation plan and if I'm out of town when there's an emergency I often try to contact a neighbor who's in a plan but I could do a lot better job I think at making a more clear plan for my family. And that's one thing I've experienced this last year is a lot of the grandparents and great grandparents of my partner they're like you know they kind of put through the whole idea of. Pulling the idea. Anything is possible it's better to talk about it and it's kind of uncomfortable because it brings up some fears but it's super important to have a plan because then when it actually happened it's not as scary in the moment which is having that kind of sometimes uncomfortable conversation maybe with your neighbor your elderly parent or maybe your friend that might not be taking it totally serious and having a plan I know the doors. Fire that was happening just last month you know that kind of woke up a lot of our friends that live in those apartments over there and and a lot of them don't drive so Christine and I have made a plan together for her if she can't get a hold of one of her allies what's your plan to go off ramp and then you had to just start walking and if it safe enough to walk and we've also been prepared to we have different masks that go in each of our go bags ones that we carry the ones that are in a vehicle the Wonder home just in case there is bad air we need to protect ourselves nothing wrong with being overprepared. I think the thing to do on the radio to simply cannot tell you know. So I mean there isn't anything wrong with being over prepared and I think it's important to like if you prepare more in advance then in the moment when things are happening you're able to stretch our systems last like part of the issue of course is if everybody has an empty tank of gas and all of a sudden they're worried about having to evacuate then the problem there is everyone's at the gas station and no one can evacuate you know and the folks who really need that you know I just think about this with generators and this may be a controversial statement but I feel like gosh do all of us need to have a generator to protect the food in our refrigerator mentioned which if you look at me once refrigerators already passed anyway. You know it's like some folks in our community who really need a power supply to be Ok And so if you don't need that you know consider how you might you know do you need to get you can be filled up and ready to go well in advance of the emergency but you might not need to fix anything that you know I think it's important to keep in mind if you're not a person who has that need you don't need to make the phone call if you don't need to make a phone call if you're already found your people and you're with them and everything's good then that doesn't need to be an extra person trying to use cell phone service that day right or is that extra person that called 911 because you don't have a plan in place where you can be more independent with that plan and follow through with that plan can you practice you talked it through and then that line of 9 want that's already left to maybe somebody who severely needs to be evacuated out of their home. Yes So it's kind of like part of that working together thing is you know part of it is a piece of learning what you need to learn to be more independent as your needs change or as you know if you have different needs but part of it is recognizing that if you're in that quote unquote privileged category of not having to think about that or whatever where it's really actually all I have to think about eventually I think but the bottom line is if you don't feel like you have to think about that stuff well you better be thinking about it because your neighbor might have a need that you're interfering with by using more than your fair share and I definitely feel like I'm in that category sometimes and just remember the views expressed on the show are those of the speakers only and are not necessarily though this given are our Board staff volunteers or contributor just to be safe so we can take your generator if you want. But you don't need. That's it it's already 1252 and I have a song that's 4 minutes and 45 does anything else less makes I want to talk really quick about this group of music is there anything I don't want to cut you off or pull your grade I think just like sum up please to call us if you need to and freeze a great resource 477-3333. Our I think we have stuff already on our website so please visit here a foothill Village dot org And check out our emergency preparedness page you can go to 201 and all those numbers are too hard to write down and remember to run one just pick up your cell phone or your landline and call 211 and we'll help you make an individualized plan or just direct you to resources I don't either and I look forward to helping those community members within our community gaining a plan for Step Plan for sure I hope there. And be ready again this is keeping our f.m. There at a city Key c.p.c. Can you know I've been your host Prickly Pear the caviar hat man for Masonic actin . 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