Round Up: “Where is that message?”

There are many ways that people can reach me other than seeing me walking down to the post office on the main drag in Point Reyes Station. I’m often in my office and people find me there. Some people email me, others prefer to text me, there are messages on some social media platforms (and those I tend to avoid – yet they are still there), I have a home, work, and cell phone. My work phone now sends me a transcript via email of my voicemails in real time. I get letters in the mail and there are three different email addresses that I monitor. I even have both a Signal (though no war plans have come my way) and a WhatsApp app on my mobile phone.

I am not knocking communication, heck we are in the communication business here at KWMR.

Many of us have been contacted by the Marin County Office of Emergency Management letting us know that the County is no longer using NIXLE. Ready Marin has a handy dandy worksheet informing us about the ways that we can glean information in times of emergency. 

Alert Marin is your main source of information coming from the Marin County Office of Emergency Management. If you are not signed up, please do so. You can now pinpoint the locations that you want to learn about and pick specific incident types. It’s great!

I have mentioned before that social media platforms can help you figure out what is going on in addition to using verified source information, but be sure you vet all information to know it is true, and check the original date of the information. Sometimes stuff gets recycled on social media platforms and it can be mighty confusing. And some things on social media are just not true at all.

As we head into this beautiful spring with the vibrant green hills, our worries about flooded roadways and landslides fade away in the rearview mirror. As the grass begins to dry out, we start to think more about defensible space and fire danger. It’s good to be aware and prepared year round, since last I checked earthquakes have no season.

Wildfire Awareness Week is coming up early next Month, May 4 – 10. The emphasis is really on home hardening and that first 5 feet around your home. It’s tricky when you live in a place and have established plants and wooden fences right up to the house, but it’s worth figuring out a way to make it work!

So if I was going to pass you a note (yet another way to communicate), this is what it would say.

Someone needs a manicure.   Photo: AE

Amanda Eichstaedt
Station Manager and Executive Director