they must have massive fuel tanks under ground then.
You would not believe how much fuel it takes to run an entire municipal
building on diesel fuel alone.
Its probably not the case at your EOC Tom, but I know most
hospitals/municiple buildings or other necessary infrastructure complexes
assume that when their 24 hours of fuel runs out, they can always get
more...but dependant upon the disaster, they may not be able to get it.
One of the things our local ARES focuses on in their training and when they
go and present emergency operations plans to different agencies is the fact
that most buildings really do not have the alternate back up they think they
do.
They bass their fuel usage on normal peace time senarios forgetting that
durring emergencies, consumtion will increase and fuel will likely be
scarce.
Hospitals are especially bad for this since their power usage is extremely
high even at minimal operations...and of course, in the case of natural
disaster where there is mass injury or casualty, their usage increases
beyond that of their normal everyday usage.
People involved in the New Orleans operations can likely attest to the fact
that alternate power sources were not dependable and certainly not even near
what was presumed to be there.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message -----
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: amateur radio
> Colin:
>
> I'm not quite sure of the specifics--but what I know is that the generator
> facility is plenty to run the EOC and other parts of the building where
the
> EOC is housed.
>
> The EOC is in the County Sheriff's Department building, and is also in
the
> same building as the local jail, so they have to have alternate power
there
> to keep things going.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: amateur radio
>
>
> > what sort of backup power is your EOC using?
> > Our local club has set up a wind generator on the 250FT repeater tower
> site
> > and they charge a bank of batteries.
> > They can run pretty much endlessly if the need arose.
> > That is, they could run minimal emergency lighting, about 3 fully
featured
> > all band stations and probably some sort of cooking facility.
> > We're currently working on another building on the sight which will hold
> > washroom facilities and showers/small kitchen.
> > The idea is to be able to use the club site for emergency operations for
> an
> > indefinite period of time if necesary.
> > 73
> > Colin, V A6BKX
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:58 AM
> > Subject: Re: amateur radio
> >
> >
> > > Steve:
> > >
> > > When we set up our County EOC station, we bought 2 Astron RS235 power
> > > supplies--one for each set-up.
> > >
> > > May seem like a bit of over-kill, but it's better to be safe than
sorry.
> > >
> > > Fortunately, our EOC has back-up generator power should the commercial
> > power
> > > go out.
> > >
> > > 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> > >
> > >
>
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