Ready SE posted 17 preparedness-related stories in January.  They appear on Whole Community News and the two Facebook groups, Ready Eugene and Eugene Neighborhoods Preparedness Network

We attended the Ready NW “Seismic Safety” event Jan. 30 (the story came out on Feb. 1).  We also supported Ready NW as part of ENPN by creating a meeting evaluation form. We took screenshots of attendees during the event to assemble an email list and hope to report the evaluation results next month.

ENPN gave a presentation during the NLC meeting in January, allowing neighborhoods to rate the performance of various community lifelines during the ice storm. Neighborhoods gave the highest ratings to mobile phone communications and electricity lifelines.  Alerts were rated the lowest. We will be following up with questions about why the alerts were rated so low.

ENPN will ask the county’s new emergency manager to participate in a future ENPN webinar.  We will suggest introducing herself to the community, discussing the after-action reports on Lane County’s response to the ice storm, and the alert system (given its low ratings).