The bureaucratic mind
Sleep easy, Portland. If a major disaster strikes, we've got a plan:
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There's a picture that is worth about 100,000 words.
Posted by dyspeptic | March 28, 2009 10:02 PM
More acronyms! We need more acronyms for simplification and clarity!
Posted by A Hopeful | March 28, 2009 11:31 PM
And when disaster really strikes, Portland will just run around like a bunch of Keystone Kops, with the "Regional JIS" plan bouncing around from person to person like a beach ball at a rock concert.
Then, when the chaos seems to be at its most chaotic, Randy Leonard will sputter up in his biofueled pickup truck and bravely mouth the words of Al Haig, "I'm in charge here."
At that point the Regional JIS is torn up, and all Hell breaks lose ...
Posted by Garage Wine | March 29, 2009 6:29 AM
No color coding?!!?
Posted by A Hopeful | March 29, 2009 9:29 AM
For a soul-chilling moment, think about if there is a real emergency and Sam Adams is mayor.
Posted by Steve | March 29, 2009 12:58 PM
Having a plan is no substitute for having a clue.
Oh, the humanity...
Posted by cc | March 29, 2009 4:27 PM
I used to work for a similarly arranged organization. Expect Sam's crew to be busy in an emergency, because they're all having meetings to prepare for meetings.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | March 29, 2009 4:56 PM
I once participated in a "mock emergency" training when I worked for the City. I was on the public information team. It was total chaos. Made me very afraid of what an actual emergency would be like.
Posted by Susan | March 29, 2009 9:45 PM
The graphic is easy to ridicule because it's so choked with bureaucratese, but fundamentally it's nothing more than a flowchart: you know, the sort of thing that a computer programmer writes as a guide--sort of like what you called an "outline" in high-school and college composition classes.
Anyway, yeah, it's a clumsy flowchart, but I'm not fussed about that, because it represents someone actually giving some thought to emergency response. I'll bet the people and agencies represented there know exactly what it all means.
Posted by fred friendly | March 30, 2009 10:06 AM