Some of the buildings on the EMI campus have card access. There is an official looking panel on the wall when you enter in the lobby of these controlled-access buildings where a light turns green when you swipe your card. When returning to the building that my room is in this afternoon the green light [...]
Tag: Emergency Management Institute
Picture it…
I am out in Emmitsburg, Maryland this week at FEMA's annual Emergency Management Higher Education Conference. I have come to this conference every year since 2004 - nine years straight now. Every year when I first arrive on the campus (at the Emergency Management Institute-EMI) I take a deep breath. It is like breathing in the rarest air [...]
You light up my life…
My new favorite thing is motion-sensored lights. They have installed this type of lighting at the Emergency Management Institute (where I was last week). Every time I walked down halls or into rooms where the lights were out the lights turned on. In the halls the sensors picked me up from a few paces away, [...]
Splashes of happy color…
I have been in Emmitsburg, Maryland at the Emergency Management Institute since Sunday evening. I have been here teaching a class for FEMA with my ever-pleasant colleague David McEntire from the University of North Texas. The class was only a two day class so I'll be headed home bright and early tomorrow morning. That means [...]
THE NEW FORTY 