Judy White KC (born January 11, 1964) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has served as a senator from Newfoundland and Labrador since July 2023. (wikipedia)
Preparedness is 90 percent of a disaster. The more prepared you are, the more likely that your response is going to be smoother and less costly and save more lives.
I'm usually booked up for Memorial Day and into the Fourth of July by now. But I know people are waiting to see about the water. Hopefully my phone will begin ringing.
We always need volunteers. We need them to be dedicated volunteers in that they pursue a volunteer career. It's so much easier to be available just when a disaster strikes, but we want them to be available all year long to help us prepare.
I think the seed was planted many years ago and it was an idea whose time came and quite frankly I think it really spurred after 9/11. It's definitely a growing trend and we have had much more business in this area since then.
If the rain keeps up like this, we might have some more people checking in.
We will have a food truck there, so we hope everyone will drive through in the morning and get coffee and a pastry or take their lunch break with us. When parents are taking their kids to school, they should leave a little early and stop by.
We have to teach professional behavior. No one is born knowing it.
This has been so very massive and different from any other we've had.
We've lived out here for nine years. We have never had to contend with this before.
The government depends on us to give them information on how many families are here even if they don't plan to relocate them,