With the significant wet environment early in the year, it was decided that MV ARES should make this drill a
review of the high water points along Stevens Creek and Permanente Creek in Mountain View. This melds
both Ham radio skills and CERT assessment skills to achieve better results and mutual understanding.
The Objectives were to deploy radio operators in cars with mobile radios and observers to visit each designated stream observation point and report the status of the creek to net control at K6MTV. It was also suggested that pictures should be taken at each survey point looking up stream and down stream. This turned out to be a very good idea as you will see from the pictures. Since Mountain View ARES works closely with Mountain View CERT, it was suggested to invite Mountain View CERT members to ride along. Included in the objectives were:
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Below, are thumbnail images from each of the survey locations. Click on a thumbnail image, and a web page with pictures and observations of that survey location will be shown in a new browser tab. |