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if it's have been impressive for us to

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see today and thank you very much for

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your time and showing me too it's my

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present may I have your attention may I

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have your attention please Laurie what

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are you doing that's my I'm busted kathy

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miller you are probably the most

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well-known boys on this center we're

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here in the Emergency Operations Center

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whether you tell me what you do here I'm

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the emergency preparedness officer here

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at Marshall Space Flight Center and the

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emergency operation center comes under

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the office of center operations in the

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office of protective services and that's

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what it's all about protecting us

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keeping us safe right that is true that

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is our mission we are to help keep

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people safe and tell me how you do that

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I see a bunch of TVs and radios and

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handhelds tell me and tell me what you

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do with those we have about 25 emergency

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responders here at the center and we do

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a radio check with them regularly and we

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also have exercises that we do tabletop

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exercises and really vent exercises our

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annual tornado drills and things like

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that yes it's severe weather Awareness

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Week and we will have our annual tornado

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drill and everybody will be expected to

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evacuate to the protective areas when I

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make the announcement yes listen to what

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she says and we're very lucky here too

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you know because we have some storm

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spotters right here on the center we do

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we have 10 volunteers storm spotters and

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when the National Weather Service issues

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a tornado watch they are activated to

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certain areas on the Arsenal and they

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have a handheld radio that we

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communicate with them with so they're

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out looking for funnel clouds and things

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like that just like the National Weather

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Service has those people right yes

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that's true and we help protect a

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redstone arsenal and we are in

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communications with the huntsville

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madison county EMA and the National

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Weather Service forecast office here in

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Huntsville well that's very impressive

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and they give you the authority just to

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go on and say those things that you need

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to say and you've also been recognized

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for it your storm ready supporter what

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does that mean well our storm ready

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support is a recognition from the

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National Weather Service for going above

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and beyond the call of duty to help keep

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our people safe

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and it's not just about severe weather

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warnings either is it no it isn't we do

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have an emergency plan that we practice

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for firing explosions for bomb threats

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for workplace violence and other

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emergencies you even had a drill last

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year late last year involving everyone

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center wide Redstone Arsenal and who

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else was involved in that last November

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we did a full-scale exercise with the

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huntsville madison county community in

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the Redstone Arsenal we wanted to see

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how our emergency services would work

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together our hospitals or police or fire

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department or ambulance service our

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exercise was very successful and we're

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working on some lessons learned that is

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good to hear tell me how all of this

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fits into NASA's mission well we're here

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to keep our employees safe so that they

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can do their job and what happens when

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you're not here dude bill and I have a

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shot at this gig we're very lucky

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because the NASA information support

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center makes the announcements after

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hours weekends and holidays and they're

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here twenty four and seven alright I

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take that as a no but thank you so much

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Kathy Miller is so great to put a face

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with the voice and thank you showing us

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around the Emergency operating system

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bill the operation center is also

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responsible for all of those evacuation

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plans in our buildings I always wondered

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who put those together oh and if you get

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a chance to head out the early works to

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see the dome exhibit you should it's

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really great work find out where we turn