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Citywide Emergency Preparedness Drill 4-28-2018

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Coming soon to our city is a drill that will allow us to practice our preparedness skills.  ‘Shilshole Prepares’ hub has been asked by the Kirke Park Hub to drill together at Kirke Park on April 28th.  We have accepted the invitation.  The theme of this drill is ‘Power Outage City Wide’.

The object of this exercise is to practice setting up our communication center: sending and receiving messages/information to the EOC (Emergency Operation Center) downtown in Seattle, organizing our hub to assist our neighbors in a time of a city wide power outage.  There will a number of exercises that you, your family and friends can participate in.

As we get closer to the drill date I will provide additional information.

Shilshole Prepares is the Shilshole Bay Marina/Shilshole Liveaboards Associations Hub for preparedness in case of a natural or other disaster.  Our mission is to provide communications and assistance in a time of crisis.  To this end we have a radio Net called the V-Man (Vessel Mutual Assistance Marine VHF Net) which meets on VHF channel 71 Monday nights at 8 pm.   This Net is designed for vessel to vessel communications.  It allow us an opportunity to practice our radio skills and to make sure our VHF radios are operational.

Being prepared for an emergency is part of good seamanship. Knowing our neighbors and working together in a time of crisis will insure the best possible outcome.

If you are interested in ‘Shilshole Prepares’ activities and programs a good place to start is the V-MAN net on Monday night.  You are always welcome  to give me a call/email.

Kristen Sierra

Shilshole Prepares, Hub Captain

206-890-5756 or amazonred53@gmail.com

Seattle Emergency Center Tour

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“Shilshole Prepares” and the Neighborhood Emergency Communications Network Hubs invite you to attend a field trip to the EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER June 22, 2017 at 6:30pm

This event will be particularly of interest to HAM radio operators.  Radio hands-on for Hub Hams with the ACS team will include:

Net Protocols
Messaging best practices
Inter Hub vs. Hub to ACS communications (internal vs. sector)
Some hands on messaging practice directed by Carl Leon

Parking is tight in the area. Carpooling is recommended.

location for OEM:
105 5th Ave South, Seattle, WA 98104

Contact Kristen Sierra, SLA Communications Chair with your questions 206-890-5756

Shilshole Prepares: Schedule of HubCaps Meetings for 2017

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Shilshole Prepares (the marina emergency preparedness branch of our Shilshole Liveaboard Assoc) participates in the City of Seattle HubCaps Network of Emergency Prep centers. Everyone is invited to participate so please contact Kristen at the Shilshole Liveaboard Assoc to get involved!

Most meetings are held at the Discovery Park Environmental Learning Center (pls confirm before each meeting).   Meeting dates in 2017 will be on the 4th Thursday of each month.  All meetings will have doors open at 6:30 for visiting and light snacks, meeting will start at 7:00.

Jan 26                          May 25                     Sept 28

Feb 23                         June 22                     Oct 26

Mar 23                         July 27                      Nov 16

April 27                        Aug 24                      Dec 28

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Audible Alert System Test a Success!

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Thanks fellow Shilshole boaters!!

We had over 20 vessels participate in the first Audible Alert test held this past Saturday at noon.  Over 20 boats successfully heard one or more horns during the test, with over 10 boats sounding their horns.  This is a great baseline test to see where we go from here.  To help gather more data on the test, we have designed a simple and anonymous survey that we would like all boaters to complete, even if they did not participate in the test. The survey can be found here.

What’s Happening with Shilshole Prepares

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Shilshole prepares website has been moved to be part of the Shilshole Blog.

  • The current Shilshole Prepares website was hacked numerous times and we had to completely eliminate the site and the hosting arrfangement.
  • Thanks to Kristen and Phil for re-invigorating the Shilshole Blog site and making it possible to host shilsholeprepares on this site.
  • It can still be reached through www.shilsholeprepares.org although there is no longer any requirement to register or log-in to access information.
  • Anyone can now author articles for the site.

There will be an Audible Alert Protocol test on February 27, 2016 at 12:00. 

  • Purpose: test audible alerting methods in case of an emergency and provide an audible signal to alert boaters to tune in Marine VHF 71, the Shilshole Vessel Mutual Assistance Net (V-MAN).
  • Test duration: less than 10 minutes
  • What will happen: five blasts on a horn will be sent out at 30-second intervals beginning at 12:00 noon and lasting for 3 minutes.
  • Anyone hearing the five-blast signal should
    • Tune to Marine VHF Channel 71 for more information.
    • Send their own five-blast signal on their horn, again at 30-second intervals, so that the audible alert is propagated throughout the marina.
  • Results and comments will be collected and the Audible Alert Protocol will be refined based on the results.