Cathedral City Administrators Practice Earthquake Safety for the Annual “Great ShakeOut”
At 10:19 am today, Cathedral City’s administrators practiced earthquake drills during its weekly departmental meeting with the city manager. This drill was part of the annual “Great ShakeOut” earthquake preparation and awareness program started in 2008.
Each year, ShakeOut participants in schools, businesses, non-profits, government agencies, neighborhoods, organizations, and households all across the world practice “Drop, Cover and Hold On” and other aspects of their emergency plans.
The goal of ShakeOut is to encourage people and organizations to be prepared to survive and to recover quickly when the next big earthquake happens.
Do you know what to do prior, during, and after an earthquake? Here are the seven steps every family needs to take to heart, practice, and prepare in order to survive the next “Big One”: http://www.earthquakecountry.org/sevensteps/
