Emergencies
The emergency numbers posted in the garage:
Low threat: Coast Management 971-255-1332
Medium threat: Non-Emergency Police 503-823-3333
High: 911
In emergencies, things don’t always go badly; things don’t always go well.
MWL currently has two advisory committees to help the HOA Board of Directors make things go well and a committee and an ad hoc group to help the MWL Board of Directors prevent things from going badly and remedy them if they do.
These groups only offer advice and make recommendations. Coast is the management company that implements and handles building operations. They get paid. The four people on the Board of Directors make final decisions. We on the Board and its committees are all volunteers. We don’t get paid. But we love where we live, and we work to improve the quality of life in our wonderful building.
E-prep is not a committee, but a loose, ad hoc and infrequent gathering/discussion group of owners and renters devoted to providing SOME materials to residents in case of emergency.
We hope to help rescue and evacuate people if needed. In case living in place is possible, we have a store of water, toileting buckets, food, medical equipment, clean-up materials, etc. on every floor BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE.
What kind of emergency? Hard to say. It's not just earthquake, but other disasters that will probably never happen in our lifetimes (or maybe tomorrow?)
Ongoing topics: encouraging INDIVIDUAL UNIT PREPARATION, harvesting rain water, dispensing SOME water and food as needed, providing building sanitation, building communication and security, identifying current MWL competencies (experience with plumbing, carpentry, medical/EMT, counseling, rescue, regulating elevator use, experience with building management, etc.).
We also hope to recruit at least two floor captains on each floor who could help in a disaster.
We are in touch with other residences in the Pearl working on these issues, and we coordinated PDNA’s AquaBrick sale in MWL.
Our motto: “It's better to be prepared.”
P.S.: Please help if you can. Tell us of your interest.