Tisdel's Tirades

Hi everybody,  So I had a fairly good FEMA Corps wrap-up post all ready to go last Wednesday or so--it was in the fashion of "Things ...

Our last round is over. Although there are currently no aggregate numbers for the amount of work we did at the NPSC, I do have my own ...

Really.  Today, my team and several others, from both Vicksburg and Vinton, got to go to the headquarters of our lord and master, the Corp...

"Go hard or go home is the motto this year/See the game don't wait, ain't no time for fear..." -Giz, soloing with Roy Jon...

The smell was unforgettable, a lifeless miasma of mold and decay and rot. Gnats swarmed around our heads and into our eyes. Piles of debris ...

"DUDE, I'M RIGHT HERE." The teenager was clad in pure white cargo shorts, a white polo shirt and a logo-less, backwards whi...

 In the last year or so, I've worked in a FEMA Regional Office, a FEMA ad hoc disaster command post, a Disaster Recovery Center, a Point...