Here's some important safety tips for all the east coasters
who DO NOT
typically experience earthquakes
brought to you
first by
YouTube west coast videoclip
and
The FEMA Factsheet
by
New York Committee
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NYCOSH)
FEMA FACTSHEET:
.
What to Do During an Earthquake:
- Be aware some earthquakes are actually foreshocks
and
a larger earthquake might occur.
- Minimize your movements to a few steps to a nearby safe place
and
- IF you are indoors, stay there until the shaking has stopped
and
you are sure exiting is safe.
If indoors: - DROP to the ground; take COVER by getting under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture; and HOLD ON until the shaking stops.
- If there isn't a table or desk near you, cover your face and head with your arms and crouch in an inside corner of the building.
- Stay away from glass, windows, outside doors and walls, and anything that could fall,
- Stay in bed if you are there when the earthquake strikes. Hold on and protect your head
- Use a doorway for shelter only if it is in close proximity to you and if you know it is a strongly - Stay inside until the shaking stops and it is safe to go outside.
- Research has shown that most injuries occur when people inside buildings attempt to move to a different location inside the building or try to leave. - Be aware that the electricity may go out or the sprinkler systems or fire alarms may turn on. - DO NOT use the elevators.
If outdoors: - Stay there.
- Move away from buildings, streetlights, and utility wires.
- Once in the open, stay there until the shaking stops.
- The greatest danger exists directly outside buildings, at exits and alongside exterior walls.
- Many of the 120 fatalities from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake occurred when people ran outside of buildings only to be killed by falling debris from collapsing walls.
- Ground movement during an earthquake is seldom the direct cause of death or injury.
- Most earthquake-related casualties result from collapsing walls, flying glass, and falling objects. If in a moving vehicle: - Avoid roads, bridges, or ramps that might have been damaged by the earthquake.
If trapped under debris:
- Do not move about or kick up dust.
- Cover your mouth with a handkerchief or clothing.
- Tap on a pipe or wall so rescuers can locate you. Use a whistle if one is available. Shout only as a last resort. Shouting can cause you to inhale dangerous amounts of dust.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
500 C Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20472
(202) 646-2500
Tolerance for others differences. It's a key preventive to future hate crimes or acts of terrorism as awful as 9/11!
9/11 was an example of hate and indifference. No one wins by hating!
(NO tolerance for terrorism is correct!)
Teach our children 9/11 was an awful act of hatred and a lack of tolerance - lack of love, lack of understanding, and lack of respect for others differences.
Teach our children now to respect others differences and learn that from 9/11 no one wins hating. Prevent hate crimes through respect and love for one another's differences.
Really?
Is it a bad joke
or
nightmare from another country?
Did the armed FDA get confused
when they saw
the organic grocer
holding an organic banana?
Why did the FDA have to go in fully loaded and armed?
Really?
It's an AMERICAN organic food store in the heart of
California where people are seeking
healthy good food.
Is America's
rights as consumers
being stripped away by
the FDA, or even the USDA for that matter.
Do Americans'
need to rise to the challenge,
and
demand answers on
this type of
socialist approach.
More education on our food
and
our rights is what Americans seek.
What's wrong with
growing fresh, organic healthy foods -
many American people
specifically hunger
and seek out these yummy foods.
They're healthy too!
Yes, our food needs to be safe and healthy
but
is it necessary in America
for the FDA to charge
Yes, charge fully armed -
into a peaceful organic California store -
Really?
Many American chronic illnesses
are currently linked to
poor nutrition and poor food -
Food & standards are managed by
the FDA & USDA -
What's really going on here?
Is there a hidden agenda or other motive behind the
FDA's tactics?
(do not forward any monies per the end of clip as this clip is to
raise awareness and educate on the issue ONLY)
Raiding healthy foods?
Taking small farmer
and
Consumer rights away?
Why?
Is this a healthy American way to go about it?
Are we helping society from
those raw, fresh health promoting organic foods?
Careful how you hold an organic banana
the FDA may be watching you!
(Left to right back) Joanie Mahoney, Onondaga County Executive, John Wallace, former Syracuse University basketball player, (front) Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, (back) Derrick Coleman, former SU basketball player, and Jim Boeheim, SU basketball coach, attend the ribbon cutting for the newest Courts 4 Kids basketball court at Skiddy Park, 300 Tioga St., Tully, Otisco and Oswego Streets. Morganne M. Atutis/The Post-Standard
it’s going to mean so much to the children in this area.’’
Skiddy Park followed Courts 4 Kids projects at Wilson Park
and Schiller Park in the city of Syracuse.
Boeheim
and
former Orange star Carmelo Anthony
created the Courts 4 Kids program.
“I’d like to keep doing these projects
until every park in the city is re-done,’’ Boeheim said.
The renovation effort at Skiddy Park
included three new basketball courts, soccer goals,
and team benches.
It also consisted of conservation efforts.
Two of the new basketball courts
use a porous pavement system
to prevent storm water from entering the sewer system,
which will prevent pollution from entering Harbor Brook and Onondaga Lake.
A fund-raising effort done
outside of the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation
and the
Carmelo Anthony Foundation
resulted in the construction
of a new playground for the park.
“I think it’s an important cause,’’ said Boeheim,
“and it’s one we hope to continue.’’
It's great for the kids when
they have POSITIVE support of the community
to promote a healthy self.
In the background is Blodgett Middle School
where I went to school as
a child.
This park was merely grass when I went to school there with
NO playground.
