Splinter cell.

[angledge]

It's been at least a few weeks since our last reorganization here in FEMAland, so we were way overdue for some bureaucratic reshuffling. My group has been assigned to Hazard Mitigation, which I'm actually quite pleased about. The purpose of Hazard Mitigation is to rebuild damaged structures in such a way that they are less prone to future damage (stronger roofs, higher floor elevations, burying power lines instead of restringing them on poles, etc.). This is an intelligent approach to disaster recovery & is therefore terribly underutilized.

But what to call our new group? "Group" is too easy, for some reason. There's a lot of bad feeling about "teams" due to the ineptitude of previous teams (who have been dissolved in this current reorganization). "Committee"? Too bureaucratic. "Division"? Too militaristic. So what did they settle on? Oh yeah - we're being called a "cell".

Hello? Do you people follow current events? You've decided to follow al-Qaeda's nomenclature? Awesome. I propose to name our group "al-NOLA".

As an aside, I had waaaaaaaaaaay too much Dr. Pepper at lunch today. Wheee, caffeine high!!!

Comments

[kwokj.livejournal.com]

oh, meant to show this to you earlier, blue tarp girl:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/photogalleries/photoweek/gfx/louisiana_cp_9015791.jpg

caption: Children ride a train past a Christmas display of homes with blue tarps and debris at Lakeside Mall in Metairie, La. on Monday Nov. 28. Frank Evans thought the miniature piles of hurricane debris he included in the Christmas display struck just the right humourous tone. Mall management told Evans to dismantle it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

someone needs to Metaquote that. :)

[d4b.livejournal.com]

The purpose of Hazard Mitigation is to rebuild damaged structures in such a way that they are less prone to future damage....

I don't suppose that that includes raising said structures, oh, about twenty five feet up?

[richcsigs.livejournal.com]

As an aside, I had waaaaaaaaaaay too much Dr. Pepper at lunch today. Wheee, caffeine high!!!

Ain't no such thing as too much Dr. Pepper.

[diefbaby.livejournal.com]

Here from metaquotes - Hi to another Louisiana FEMA lackey! XD

Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too...

[branniejan.livejournal.com]

I seriously thought if the waitress gave you one more glass of Dr. Pepper, I was going to have to saddle you up and ride you down the street *grins*