Jennifer,
What a great story!.. Thanks for sharing it. It is especially endearing to
me as I am Treasurer of Basset Hound of Al, as a volunteer. Also back
several months a go sadly a Vet here in Ala set fire to his clinic for the
insurance money and has been convicted.
With you permission, I would like to use this story in some of my
presentation to groups of various types in our area.
Trudy M. Phillips
File Management, LLC
"Bringing Order Out of Chaos"
8440 Lanewood Circle
Leeds, AL 35094
Office: 205/699-8571 Fax: 205/699-3278
_www.filemanagement.com_ (http://www.filemanagement.com/)
In a message dated 7/9/2008 2:13:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Larry,
Your story reminded me of a presentation I did a few years ago. Here at the
City we offer a variety of training session on records management topics,
including a 2 hour session on vital records identification. One of the
participants was the veterinarian from our Animal Shelter and she asked me to speak
to a group of veterinarians she belongs to about disaster preparedness. It
was an interesting class, and one of the attendees was the primary vet at the
Animal Hospital my family and I have used for over 30 years. I wasn't sure
if anyone really paid attention, you know I wasn't talking about paws or fur
or anything animal or medical related, so who knows? Until about a month
later when I took the kitties in for their check up. Dr. B (as he is
affectionately known in our family) comes running into the exam room and begins telling
me about all the procedures they have started to ensure that in the event of
a disaster they know what animals are in for boarding, sick, etc. !
Each month they print out the phone numbers of clients and distribute it
amongst the vets to take home for safekeeping, they copy the calendar for the
next day so that if they need to get hold of a client in the event of a power
outage they can do so, etc. He was very excited and was working with some
other vets in the area for a possible reciprocal agreement for storing back-up
tapes off site. And last year he mentioned that they are also storing
microchip info for their clients off-site as well. Good to know my vets office
is prepared. Now the doctors office, that's another story!
And yes, I do have a handwritten address book, phone book and keep copies of
important phone numbers and account info (power, phone, etc) in the
emergency kit. My husband wanted to put it all on a thumb drive, until the day he
went to use the computer and realized that our 18 month old had gotten behind
the couch and unplugged it......dead battery! He did put a thumb drive in
there with more detailed info, but the basics are still on paper.
Jennifer
Jennifer Winkler
City Records Manager
City of Seattle City Clerks Office
600 4th Ave, FL. 3
P.O. Box 94728
Seattle, WA. 98124-4728
(206) 684-8154
(260) 386-9025 (fax)
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