City Office Of Emergency Management Has Its Shit More Together Online Than Most Newspapers/Your DJ Night
OK, file this one under “Request Fulfillment To Stop Busting Nutter’s Balls”: Because you can’t have Bizarro Nutter without Real Nutter, people. That’s just, like, science. So here’s the good news: 311 is up and running, and The Managing Director’s Office Of Emergency Management — that name really rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? — has just gone social-networking BANANAS! For instance, let’s say a bunch of rogue Temple journalism students huff a bunch of paint and decide to take their revolution to the STREETS, baby, and set off a dirty bomb outside Steven Wells’ sad, weird apartment. That would definitely constitute an emergency of some kind. And you would probably wanna know about it, swipe a geiger counter over yourself, do shots, whatever. Well, the way the OEM has it set up, you wouldn’t have to wait to hear it on the news: Rather, you could get it right away from feeds off OEM’s Twitter, OEM’s Facebook, OEM’s Blogspot, OEM’s MySpace, OEM’s LinkedIn, or even OEM’s YouTube, which currently features David Morse telling you not to freak out and just be ready when The Rapture comes. Are you ready? Yes, we’re ready.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
What, no OEM tumblr?
January 7th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
They did research to create these evacuation routes? The routes are basically this: take nearest large road to the Schuylkill Expressway or I-95. That won’t get me out of town quick on a regular day, let alone in an emergency.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I don’t know emmkay, when a city demands an evacuation, some factors behind congestion, like 2 way roads are turned into 1 way evacuation corridors, that should mitigate traffic problems … if the city has the budget to keep its emergency workers on duty, ahem.
That said, as I’m pretty sure PhillyCarshare cars will get looted before I even have a clue, I’m stuck walking or bussing along a purple line to … I don’t know, the South Philly routes look like on a glance to end well before the stadiums. I guess they just expect the big green cloud will get me.
Otherwise, yeah, these initiatives were formed by someone who saw Cloverfield and then used the Mumbai terror attacks’ twitter echo chambers as “real world” evidence for his policy paper.