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* '''PBEM should offer a proportionally appropriate number of training events relevant to extreme weather event response and climate change resilience.''' This might include shelter response training, polishing training for heat illness response, outreach, and more. | * '''PBEM should offer a proportionally appropriate number of training events relevant to extreme weather event response and climate change resilience.''' This might include shelter response training, polishing training for heat illness response, outreach, and more. | ||
==== NET | ==== Neighborhood-based response teams exist for no other purpose than to respond to an earthquake ==== | ||
''Every'' NET deployment since 1994 has been centralized through PBEM. PBEM sets the volunteer position descriptions, the shift schedules, and the NETs ultimately report to PBEM. The reason is that, per NET Guidelines, NETs will only self deploy if there is a citywide disaster '''''and''''' routine communication systems are disabled. In other words: an earthquake.<ref>Yeah ok, and the off chance of an [https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/the-disaster-that-could-follow-from-a-flash-in-the-sky EMP]. But let's keep this simple.</ref> | |||
This realization opens a few other implications that help us organize our work: | |||
# Teams of NET volunteers exist really for only two reasons: for local self deployment after an earthquake, and for socializing/training together. | |||
# NET "Operations Plans" are really "Earthquake Plans". | |||