Mr. Rawles,
Please let me commend to your attention the website of the Suburban Emergency Management Project: http://www.semp.us/ [1]
This is an excellent website with material written by professionals but useful to laymen. There’s more info on this site than I can assimilate in a week. Their “Biots” are short papers on a whole panoply of emergency preparedness topics. There are 340 of them, as of today. Some of my favorites are:
#334: “Please Remain in Your Seat”: The Federal Government’s Role in Quarantine (26 February, 2006)
#332: What Is “Earthquake Baroque” Architecture? (21 February 2006)
#259: Revisiting Looting Behavior during Disasters (6 September 2005)
#216: Lessons Learned from a Hospital Evacuation During Tropical Storm Allison (21 May 2005)
#179: A Palimpsest of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plans (25 February 2005)
#23 Who Was in Charge of the Massive Evacuation of Lower Manhattan? (26 September 2002)
Keep up the great work! – TFA303