Just got back from a CERT radio training class - about 20 people showed up and we covered operating those little walkie-talkie sets you see for sale at Costco in various scenarios. Also covered was inter-operating with ham radio. Useful stuff and good teachers. There were about eight other ham radio operators there - recognized most of them - getting to know the community. A lot of good people.
It's not if, it's when so it pays to get prepared.
Just in the last year alone, the Mt. Baker Highway has been reduced to a single lane in two places and been completely relocated in one place due to earth movement. It was also shut down completely due to another slide crushing a drainage culvert. There is a large (quarter-mile section) slow earth movement on South Pass road that settles an inch or two every time we get a lot of rainfall.
We live in an interesting place - beautiful but interesting. My driveway still has patches of ice in it - the critical spot where I get out of the truck to open and close the gate is now ice free but there is still a good bit left by the barn.
To top it all off, we are in a state of flood watch with a heavy rainstorm starting to move in. Our local river is running about three times its normal discharge:
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