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Ouch! Lol....

I didn't see an air conditioned classroom until I attended college. O_o

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Kind of hard to use a school as an emergency shelter without power.

Some states do have those resources, BUT try to get them when you need them. As for FEMA they can kiss my a$$. I have yet to see a single thing they have been involved in that actually works as planned. Plus they have some really STUPID ideas about how to handle real emergencies.

My high school's newest addition was finished in the mid '60s when A/C wasn't common. There is a chat room for that school, and some of the crybabies were whining about 80 degree classrooms when the A/C failed. I gave links and described the conditions after that tornado hit the same building, and that we didn't even have lights, let alone A/C. What was my Jr. High school is now an elementary school, and is surrounded by air conditioning equipment that it didn't have in the '60s.

Drivivng south on I-75 in early Feb. 1996 we entered Georgia and saw, northbound the state snow clearing fleet - two road graders and an actual one way snow plow.

Back in the 50's at The Catholic Parochial Gulag, I can remember sitting in the classroom of Sister Godzilla and looking at the high ceilings and transom windows into the hallway and the big steel swing out windows that let a breeze blow through in hot weather, if we were lucky. There were also the hissing radiators for heat in the winter months. Hanging from the ceiling were the standard milk white glass globes housing those big 150 watt clear light bulbs. My encounter with air conditioning was when the whole school was bussed to see a movie in an air conditioned movie theater. Funny the things you remember. ^_^

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One of the schools I went to was built in the late 1800s, had a bad fire during W.W. I and was pieced back together with available materials. Some of the floors were still in bad shape in the '60s. It had the same high ceilings & lights, that had replaced the kerosene lights. All the wiring was in EMT, run over the concrete walls with handy boxes mounted on the walls where they were easy to run into. This was a public school, one of the oldest in the county. Like most of the older schools, it had a new wing added in the late '50s or early '60s, still before A/C was common.

That school still had an Operadio intercom system, which later became Dukane. Operadio was pained black wrinkle, while Dukane used NEMA gray smooth enamel. Both used the same model & part numbers. Big, bulky steel racks with lots of single pair shielded cable. The early, unjacketed stuff that would rip the skin off your hands and stiff as a board because of the cloth insulation on the inner conductors.

Cover, rooms, comms facilities and similar stuff.

More the stove and oter cooking ppliances for catering for displaced persons.

most schools have that combination of available space both indoor and outdoor for co-ordinating and providng rescue and recovery services to compliment the emergency services depts.

And tubes, lots of tubes. Don't you just love that old stuff? ^_^

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Some years ago I came up with an idea for NDC, National Disaster Corps. Young people who didn't care for the military could join The NDC and get the same sort of benefits for serving the country armed not with a gun but a shovel and a hard hat. Like The Peace Corps but with heavy equipment. The corps could be organized like the military and even work with the military for transportation and basing. Heck, there are empty bases all over the place they could work out of. I would imagine that The NDC would be more welcome in certain parts of the world than the military in times of disaster. ^_^

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I made my living off it for several decades. A 6GH8A retailed for $3.95 through most of the '70s. I bought them by the box of 100 for 39 cents each, on sale. ;-)

Combine that with the old CCC & WPA and you might have something. They would have enough work to stay busy, while they learned the needed skills to help in emergencies.

The Daring Dufas on Mon, 06 Aug

We called them Labor Battalions in the old country. Actually, it was called Reichsarbeitsdienst - Imperial Labor Service. In the US it was the Civilian Conservation Corps, back in the New Deal. In both cases, if not run by the Army, along the Army lines. In theory, wasn't Ameri-Corps suppose to do something like this?

I wonder about availability now, perhaps Russian or Chinese suppliers? O_o

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I don't know, I simply thought about all the disasters that seem to be going on around the country and the world, perhaps young folks and even folks who would like to serve the country but can't serve in the armed forces because of some disability could do something like administrative work in the NDC. Even retired folks could join up and train the youngsters in the areas they know. Think of it as an army that puts things back together instead of blowing things up. ^_^

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The Daring Dufas on Tue, 07 Aug

Good idea. I think there would need to be some serious shifting of paradigms first. But it is now almost three enthroning. I'm zonked.

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What would they do that contractors with heavy equipment couldn't do better and faster? There isn't much call for axe or shovel work any more, and inexperienced amateur administrators would be worse than FEMA.

What does the National Guard do when they are called out? I haven't seen them at work because the local administration has always been adequate. The dump trucks and bucket loaders needed to clear snow can handle most other infrastructure damage too.

jsw

Why the f*ck do you guys change the topic header? I have no idea where I left off yesterday. Birmingham blizzard?

Now, that makes good sense. You'd need some kind of recognizable clothing, and some kind of structure. And, it sure could work. Sadly, I have been wondering if FEMA is designed to prevent aid from reaching disasters.

I've been part of a relief effort. They handed out yellow vests that said "Mormon Helping Hands".

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Some years ago I came up with an idea for NDC, National Disaster Corps. Young people who didn't care for the military could join The NDC and get the same sort of benefits for serving the country armed not with a gun but a shovel and a hard hat. Like The Peace Corps but with heavy equipment. The corps could be organized like the military and even work with the military for transportation and basing. Heck, there are empty bases all over the place they could work out of. I would imagine that The NDC would be more welcome in certain parts of the world than the military in times of disaster. ^_^

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