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=== The urgency of climate change resilience is supplanting earthquake resilience in Portland === | |||
NET is an all-hazards response resource and responding to the threat of a CSZ earthquake will always be the standard PBEM wants to train NETs to. But an earthquake hasn't killed anyone in Oregon for at least three centuries. Meanwhile, extreme weather events in Oregon linked to climate change, such as the 2021 heat dome, have killed hundreds and contribute to ongoing health problems for many. | NET is an all-hazards response resource and responding to the threat of a CSZ earthquake will always be the standard PBEM wants to train NETs to. But an earthquake hasn't killed anyone in Oregon for at least three centuries. Meanwhile, extreme weather events in Oregon linked to climate change, such as the 2021 heat dome, have killed hundreds and contribute to ongoing health problems for many. | ||
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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. | ||
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=== 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> | ''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> | ||