Author: Emergency Planning

Reprinted: RONALD LOGANDec 9, 2025, Substack For nearly a decade I’ve followed weather and climate blogs by Jeff Masters, co-founder and former chief meteorologist of the Weather Underground. (See Eye on the Storm) A couple of years ago, Masters wrote a series on California mega-floods. Every 200 years, on average, California experiences a mega-flood. The last…

The sun shone through on an otherwise rainy few weeks (though we are certainly in need of the rain) for our Joint Co-op Emergency and Resilience Planning BBQ and Social, as an opportunity to connect with fellow co-op members across our six co-ops. Now that we have completed our Emergency Coordinator’s Guide (see the Resource…

Thank you to Tom Norman from KAPOW Creative for capturing our project as well as he did

While May temperatures here in Vancouver have been reaching highs normally associated with mid-summer weather, it seemed fitting to explore heatwaves in our latest Emergency Planning workshop. 13 people from seven co-ops met for a deep dive into emergency planning where we simulated and discussed two disasters – heatwaves and earthquakes.