 So you are here today for preparing for extreme weather, fire and hurricane. I'm going to do a couple of quick introduction slides and then we're going to go ahead and jump into the program. Again, my name is Robin Barakilgo. I am the CDC care coordinator. And you just heard from Mike Morneau our senior producer at learning times if you have any questions during the webinar I encourage you to go into the chat box to communicate with us at any point. We do have our home on the web, which is connecting to collections.org. On that website, you will be able to see a history of the program so on that website you will see an archive of our all of our courses, all of our webinars. A link to our online community. So there you can ask questions of conservation professionals will answer them direct care questions are always encouraged on that community. You also see curated resources and a bunch of other information so I encourage you to go to that website whenever you're able to. We also have two places you can go check out news about us on social media which is on Facebook and Twitter so I encourage you to follow both of these if you're able to. And as Mike said you have two ways to communicate with us one is via the chat box that is to say hello tell us how the weather is going say where you're from. And these things can happen within the chat box within the q amp a box that's where you can ask questions from our speakers today. I encourage you to put a question at any point during the actual program, sometimes you know they'll hit you when you're hearing a presentation so feel free to put a question in at that time. And you will be it will be able to hit as many as we can during the q amp a period afterwards. And one example of quick programming notes is the upcoming webinars so we have two free webinars that are coming up in the next couple months. One is fundraising for collections care that's happening on September 28 and then on October 11 we have forget the best good and better approaches to preservation that one we're partnering with our friends over at CCHA for for the upcoming webinars, the, they're free, so I would encourage you to go to our website and sign up for them as soon as you're able to they are open for reservation, they're open for registration as of today so go to our website to see them at any point. We also have an upcoming course which I think I wanted to talk a little bit about today. That one's called the preservation of our global photographic heritage here there and everywhere. That's going to be running from September 13 to September 27. Now the courses are a little bit more of an in depth look at a subject. The CDC care does charge for them, but if you register before Saturday, August 20, you'll get an early bird fee. So it's going to be a five webinar course. Another really neat thing about this course is that it actually, we're going to be loaning you or the course coordinators going to be loaning you a collection of photographs to actually have that you can use during the course. And then you'll be asked to mail them back at the end of it she's handling that her name is Deborah Nora she's a great instructor from the University of Delaware. So if you're interested in the course I would encourage you to sign up for it as soon as we can it actually has a maximum of 50 participants so if you're interested please get in there as soon as you can for pretty excited about it. Now, today's topic extreme weather. When we started planning this a few months ago, which was back in the spring, I mean obviously we knew hurricane season and fire season we're coming up but I don't think any of us really expected it to be quite the experience of what the summer has been obviously there's been quite a lot of disasters in the southeast out west, different parts of the country and different parts of the world. When we started we did want to pass along some resources. I'm also going to encourage everyone to send resources in the chat so if you know the local resource that you found helpful during an emergency or disaster preparedness or preparing for extreme weather like we're talking about today. I encourage you to put those resources in the chat and you'll try to gather them all at the end of this session. I did want to pass along the National Heritage Responders line which is important here at FAIC to pass along there is an email helpline to help people there's also a 24 hour man phone number which is that 202-661-8068 and also a general email address that you can use in case you're dealing with a disaster or something else. FAIC has also allocated a certain amount of funds to help out with emergency caps which are the conservation assessment program so if you're interested in that program where someone will come out and actually help you kind of prioritize and write a report to deal with an emergency situation. I would encourage you to go check out that website down there. One other thing before we start our program is that we are going to be talking about some sensitive subjects today dealing with extreme weather and disasters and all that can. It can be traumatic and it can be quite upsetting. I know you know some of you might know I dealt with Hurricane Irma on a personal level back in 2015. I was displaced for a month. It was quite scary to know kind of what was happening at that point. Other people have been displaced either from their personal lives or institutional lives for weather disaster situations. So we just want to ask you to keep that in mind while we're talking about our presentations today. We do hope that we'll pass along some great resources to everyone but just be aware of the fact that you know sensitive subjects and we're going to be kind to our audience and presenters. So I'm going to go ahead and do some quick introductions of our presenters today. The first section of our webinar is going to be covering some of the fires that happened out in California a couple years ago. Our presenters for that section are first Jenny daily who's a museum curator one a California State Park Santa Cruz just Santa Cruz district excuse me, and then Kathleen Aston who's the collections manager Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. And then later in the program we're going to be hearing from Shakira Teresa Santiago who's the museum collections manager down at the University of Puerto Rico. And that one's going to be dealt about hurricane once those are done we will then go into a Q&A session afterwards. So I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing my screen, and I'm going to go ahead and ask for Jenny to go ahead and get started that she's our first presenter today Jenny feel free to get started whenever you're ready. Okay, thank you. I'm going to share my screen. There we go and everybody see that okay. Looks perfect go right ahead. So hello and welcome everyone. My name is Jenny daily I'm the museum curator one for California State Parks in the Santa Cruz district. First I would like to say thank you to Robin and for connecting to collections care for inviting me to present my museum collections evacuation story today. I'm honored to be here. And thank you to everyone who's watching as this is a very important topic. Just a brief bit about me and my background I received my master's in museum studies with an emphasis on collections management from John F can be University in 2010. Before working for parks I worked in more traditional museum settings like the California Academy Sciences, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the Getty in LA. I was working for state parks in October of 2019. And I went for the curator job at state parks because it just seemed like such a rather unique position, and it's a place where I can combine my love of parks with my expertise as a museum collection in museum collections management. I imagine most of you are pretty savvy about museums but perhaps you may not immediately associate the state parks with museum collections. In the Santa Cruz district we have about 15 parks that have either historic artifact collections, historic house museums, historic structures, and or a visitor center with some type of collections on display. We probably have about 15, I would say only 15,000 cataloged individual museum collection items, but that number is much larger when you start to include archaeology collections. And of course, all of the un-catalogged material. So, the focus of the webinar today is how extreme weather impacts cultural institutions. But I wanted to start with this image because this is a photo of my backyard on the day before I had to evacuate my home during the CZU fire in August of 2020. I live up in the Santa Cruz mountains and the fire got within a mile of our house on three sides. I want to emphasize that in addition to an extreme weather event affecting your professional life, an extreme weather event and or emergency will probably also be affecting your personal life in some way. We got the order to evacuate at 2am and had to load up our cars with our pets and photos and food and clothes and get out in a hurry. I spent an entire day trying to find a secure place to stay with my pets. And that was a day that I couldn't help my coworkers with fire evacuations. And ultimately, I ended up being evacuated from home for five weeks. So just some background on the CZU fire in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 16, 2020, which means we just got to the two-year anniversary. An uncharacteristic dry lightning storm sparked numerous fires across portions of northern Santa Cruz County and southern San Mateo County. By late Tuesday of August 18th, changes in weather conditions resulted in multiple smaller fires joining and merging and turning into this out of control conflagration. Collectively known as the CZU lightning complex fire, it ultimately burned 86,000 over 86,000 acres, destroyed 1500 structures and burned for 37 days. So here's a map that shows the extent of the CZU fire. The pink area is the extent of the fire and the areas in green are our local state parks within the Santa Cruz district, which is a combination of Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. This rugged coastal mountain area is south of San Francisco and north of the city of Santa Cruz and bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and Skyline Ridge to the east. And so here are the six parks in the Santa Cruz district that were affected by the fire. The level of impact varies from park to park. For example, Big Basin Redwood State Park was burned 97% of the park was burned, and all of the historic buildings and museum collections were destroyed in that park. Meanwhile, neighboring Portola Redwood State Park was barely touched by the fire. But during the fire response, with the exception of Big Basin, museum collections were evacuated from five state park units to avoid any further damage and destruction to important cultural resources. And so in the next few slides I'm going to talk about our response to the fire and the collections evacuation efforts at each one of these parks. And so I also again want to give a content warning here that some of the images show extensive fire damage to museum collection spaces and museum collections. And then also I just want to note all the images in this presentation were taken by me. So Big Basin State Park was established in 1902 it's our oldest state park in California. Big Basin is known for its old growth redwood trees camping hiking and waterfalls. The buildings in the historic core of the park were built by the California Conservation Corps in the 1930s as part of a WPA era initiative. Here's an image of our archive room in the back of the museum before the fire. The main storage room for this park and although items were stored in at least three different buildings and exhibitions were on display in at least two different buildings. And here's an image of the museum after the fire. So at 9pm on Tuesday, which was August 18, I received a text from my boss, who's the supervisor of cultural resources. I had some questions about evacuating museum collections at Big Basin that he could then relate to the Rangers, who were the only people that were still in the park at that point. So you see the, the museum building at Big Basin had just been renovated. And at least half of the collections were still packed in boxes from being temporarily relocated during the renovations. Otherwise my boss, the Rangers should at least grab what was stored in boxes. You know, at that point I didn't know how much damage and destruction there would be at Big Basin. We didn't get confirmation until a day or two later that not only had none of the collections been evacuated, but that all of the buildings and collections had been a total loss. And here's a different park at Rancho Deloso. That's the area of Big Basin. That is where Waddle Creek meets the Pacific Ocean. And this is an image of our collection storage room at Rancho Deloso. And Rancho Deloso has also a historic house, which has a nature and history center. It's a welcome center across the marsh and miraculously both of these buildings did survive, despite the fire coming within 10 feet of building the buildings. And this is an image of our museum collections in transport. So the the park's interpreter and a park ranger packed most of the contents of the museum collection storage room into this large van. And staff then packed the taxidermy and museum objects that were on display. In the visitor center room and the welcome center. And they put them in their vehicles and took everything to a nearby park. They took it over to Onion Nuevo State Park, which is across the highway. And a couple of days later, I was concerned that Onion Nuevo may also still be in danger from the fire. So I met with the interpreter. We care vanned up to Onion Nuevo went through the highway patrol roadblocks on Highway one, and went up and picked up the van full of collections and drove it back to Santa Cruz for safekeeping. And this van full of collections ended up being in Santa Cruz for about six weeks. So the cultural preserve at Wilder Ranch State Park is a collection of numerous historic houses, barns and outbuildings. The oldest structure is the Balkoff Adobe, which was built in the 1830s. Most of the structures were built by the meter and Wilder families between 1860s and 1940s, including three houses, a horse barn, a cow barn workshops and other buildings. And this is an image of one of the collections storage areas in the park after the evacuations. The museum collections are stored in various locations throughout the preserve, and there are collections both on display and in storage. And there's about 6000 individual objects in this park. So I spent all day here along with interpretive staff, a handful of docents and a couple of cultural resources staff who came down from Sacramento. And we packed the entire contents of the museum collection storage room here in the Victorian in this image, as well as most of the small objects on display in the houses and workshops. Many of the items were packed into staff vehicles and moved across to the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, which is about two miles away. And we also packed all of the accession records because those are stored at Wilder Ranch, as well as as much reference material and everything in my office was also packed up and moved to the mission. And then so by midday of that day that we were packing, which is what this is an image of two moving trucks arrived from that had been sent down from Sacramento, and with movers, which was very helpful. And so we then started to pack up as much of the large furniture as we could fit into the into at least one of the trucks. We also started to pack up tools and equipment from the workshops. Most of that stuff is original Wilder family material. And then we just tried to find as many collections and storage as we could throughout all of the various buildings and pack as much as we could. And then when these two trucks were full they they left and went back up to Sacramento. And so this was a point where we had already realized the losses at Big Basin and so we were very motivated to try to save as much material at Wilder. We knew that the fire was moving into the upper reaches of the park. And so we weren't sure if the cultural preserve would survive. The next park is Henry Cowell Redwood State Park. It's a beautiful redwood park. And it's also the location of our district headquarters. The parks visitor center has objects on display, and then the district archaeology collections are stored in the maintenance area. And so this is an image of our archaeology collections being returned to the lab nearly a year after the fires. So at Henry Cowell the park interpreter and other staff packed up everything on display that they could in the visitor center and evacuated them to a nearby park. And then our district cultural team met with those two moving trucks and filled up one of the trucks with as many of the archaeology collection storage boxes as possible. And so we filled up the truck with our park unit files and with research material that had been collected over probably past 20 years and just tried to get as much of that documentation packed up and evacuated as possible. And so here's an image of us reinstalling the mountain lion in the visitor center at Henry Cowell. After the fire danger had passed the interpreters and I, you know, spent time returning the evacuated collections back to many of the visitor centers and staging them for cleaning, reinstallation and inventory which was done over a few months. So Anya Nueva was another park affected by the fire. It's also on the coast, just north of Rancho de los. These days it's mostly known for its elephant seal colony, but the parkland was once part of the steel family dairy. And this is an image of a small steel family cemetery that's located at Cascade Ranch, which unfortunately suffered quite a bit of damage including that broken headstone. So staff in this part packed the taxidermy, skulls, ethnographic, ethnographic collections and everything as much as they could that was on display in the barn and evacuated it to the mission for safe storage. And fortunately the historic structures in the cultural complex at Anya survived the damage, despite the fire crossing highway one at multiple points. So for this area, Cascade Ranch was not quite so lucky. A historic barn and a couple of other buildings were destroyed in the fire. And unfortunately a few museum collections had been stored in those barns as well. So at Butano State Park here's an image of the visitor center. Unfortunately that precariously hanging ceiling tile that was damaged during the evacuation because there had been an owl hanging from the ceiling that was evacuated in haste and damaged the ceiling. And fortunately cultural and maintenance staff were able to pack up most of the taxidermy and ethnographics that are on display in this visitor center. So most of the items were also taken to the mission for safe storage. And here's Portola Redwood State Parks. And this is an image of us reinstalling another taxidermy mountain lions specimen. You know in this park the fire only burned to the edge of the park, but unfortunately not much farther but the collections on display were evacuated. And just out of an abundance of caution, natural resources staff packed most of the taxidermy and objects on display in the visitor center and took them to the half Moon Bay State Park maintenance yard. And so months later, I worked with maintenance staff, as you can see here to reinstall this mountain lion, and we devised a new quick release security mount so that the specimen could be easily removed from the wall in the next evacuation, if necessary. So this is an image of me sifting through the degree at Big Basin, looking for museum collections to salvage. By late September of 2020, a large team of cultural resources staff, along with staff from Sacramento, and staff from one of our cooperating associations the friends of Santa Cruz State Parks. So I went to Big Basin to survey and record the damage and destruction of the historic structures. And at that time I was able to spend some time looking through the ashes in our various storage locations, you know to look for any collections that may have survived. We were able to find about 50 or so individual items. As you can see here, mostly logging equipment axe heads saw blades. So, as you can imagine it's mostly sturdy metal objects that survived the fire. All of our first collections were headed, were moved to our district headquarters at Henry Cal for temporary storage. We also, after the fire danger had passed had the opportunity to do a deep clean of our exhibition spaces, since they were largely empty of their artifacts. Once after the fire with the help of interpretive staff, docents and other volunteers, we spent about 12 full working days, doing a deep clean of exhibition spaces and storage spaces at about seven parks. And so, then began the process of returning collections. About a week after the fire the very first thing we returned is that car in the image on the left will returning it to the garage at Wilder Ranch. So, I worked. Basically, I worked at the mission where most of the evacuated collections ended up, and I started organizing all of the collections, you know, sorting. Since the mission has multiple rooms I sort of sorted all of the collections from one park into each room. And most of the objects from Wilder ended up in one of our rooms that's just basically reserved for showing an interpretive video so it's practically an empty room. And that was really fortunate, because we were able to just fill it with evacuated collections. Over the following months I worked with our interpretive staff to begin returning the evacuated collections to various parks. We used our state park trucks to move everything that have been stored at the mission, including the many boxes some furniture and large paintings that we took from Wilder Ranch. They were staged in visitor centers and in the historic house so that they could be inventory cleaned and then returned to their storage and display locations. And then in January 2021, a moving truck returned the Wilder collections that had been in Sacramento. It was one full truck full of furniture. With the image on the right, the returned collections included the furniture from the houses, the packed exhibition display objects, museum collections from storage, machines and tools from the workshops. And I worked with these two movers to help place the furniture back in the houses, and the box collections were again staged in one of the one of the houses to be returned to storage later. Eventually it took me months to unpack and restore everything. Some of the items like a drill press and lathe that were in the workshop required the help of knowledgeable docents who knew how to reassemble them, and very strong maintenance staff who could then place them back in their original locations. And so by June of 2020, 2021, excuse me. Another moving company returned two more full truckloads of our archaeology collections that had been temporarily stored in Sacramento, and we brought them back to our archaeology lab at Henry Cowell. So in conclusion, so what are the lessons that we learned here. You know in the pros column, I learned that many park staff are willing to pitch in and help with evacuation evacuations of collections and then emergency. The Santa Cruz mission is a great temporary storage location, at least during the time of the CZU fire evacuations because it was also peak COVID times, and the mission was close to the public. And another pro was that we had this opportunity to do a deep clean of our exhibition spaces, and of the actual objects on display. And this image on the left is the room at the mission where that we packed full of wilder collections. So some of the cons were that I think maybe we evacuated more than we needed to I know that it was all an abundance of caution but specifically with the taxidermy I think we should have first focused on evacuating the endangered species specimens. So if there had been more time, get more items. We did tend to focus on evacuating items that were on display and some of the core collections in storage did get missed. This was primarily because we just didn't have prepared lists of priority objects with locations ready for evacuation. Some of the taxidermy and some of the other one or two other artifacts were damaged during the evacuation. This image on the right is the one of the taxidermy owls that was damaged you can see its head is maybe not quite in the right position anymore. And so then we had to send that to conservator for repair. So the most important lesson we learned I learned was the value of having up to date evacuation plans, having priority items identified in advance, having a cash of emergency collection supplies for packing, having objects and storage already and packed in boxes and ready to go and having locations identified in advance for temporary storage of evacuated collections. And my thanks go out to all my state parks colleagues who helped, who pitched in and helped during the fires. Here's a picture of us at the mission we're flexing our muscles after returning a load of boxes back to wild ranch. And so that's it for me. Thank you. And now I'll pass it over to Kathleen, and she's going to talk about the same fire event from the perspective of her museum and how they engaged with the community during the event. So, that will stop sharing. Thank you Jenny, and I will start sharing. Okay, so can everyone see that all right. Yes, it looks great. Thanks Kathleen. All right, cool. Yeah, so Johnny and I have talked about this narrative and the lessons that we learned and our takeaways a lot but it's still a pretty impactful story so I really appreciate you be willing to share that out. I know that it was a pretty difficult experience for you. So I am Kathleen Austin, I'm the collections manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. We are neighbors of the Santa Cruz District of State Parks, with whom we frequently collaborate on a bunch of different projects. We did not suffer the kind of collections losses that Jenny just described at Big Basin and elsewhere but we were impacted by the extreme weather events that culminated in the CZ lightning complex fires. For my portion of the presentation I'm going to talk about some of these impacts and lessons learned. Well Jenny was presenting I was able to keep a little bit of an eye on the chat so I'm going to try to maybe speak to some of the questions that are happening, but I'm sure we'll have time for that at the end. So I'm going to talk about our sort of, you know, trial and evacuating things so that we didn't suffer in hopes that we wouldn't suffer losses. And then I'm going to focus more on how the fires impacted our sort of collections development and acquisition practices. So kind of echoing some things that Jenny talked about it's really important to emphasize when you're dealing with disasters first making sure that staff are safe and sound. In particular, you know, a lot of folks are going to be unable to participate in an emergency response due to personal reasons like if they've been injured evacuated or caring for loved ones. But the one thing that kind of surprised me in the case of extreme fire weather type situations. Something I just didn't think about many people in the Santa Cruz area just had to leave town in order to be able to breathe. I already all had masks, but the weather was just really bad and a lot of folks had to go. So I was super fortunate in that I was not impacted in my physical health and housing, but I was impacted emotionally. You can see in this photo the picture from my front yard around the morning a few days into the fires. And ironically one of my tasks that month was to add to the, the first iteration of more collections focused content to our institutional emergency plan, which at the time didn't have anything speaking specifically to the collections. And I was actually writing that content when the sky turned orange and ash started falling outside my window. And I was thinking a lot about emergency preparedness resources like the management cycle illustrated here and the disaster response wheel. And I will never quite forget the experience of setting those things aside on my computer and getting up and starting to take pictures of my room making sure I had significant documents and supplies packed in a bag and gas in my car. So I was thinking a lot about these management phases. I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with them but I just want to cover them briefly for some context about the way that sort of my content for the presentation fits into kind of preparedness. You have mitigation, which is doing what you can ahead of time to minimize the impact of disasters preparedness which is the immediate actions you take to get ready for an impending disaster response which is the first 72 hours of reacting to a disaster and recovery, which is the months and years and decades of processing with disasters impact. So I have been really focusing on making sure our plan had good response type content. My greatest concern was that we really had no guidance on salvage. And because our collections were not directly impacted by the fires we didn't have to take advantage of that content that I wrote. We did however realize the importance of some of the other components through our experience with evacuation, which we'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. So it really, it seemed unreal that the fires would be able to get to us. We're in the heart of historic and relatively central neighborhood in Santa Cruz. But you know in just prior years there were several towns and cities throughout California where fires had unexpectedly made it to the hearts of historic downtown. And we didn't want to wait until the fires got close to decide when it was time to move things but we also realized we did not have a metric for what this meant. Like, you know, I haven't seen this a lot in the literature that I was looking at what it really means to identify the disasters that might impact your community and museum and when exactly short of flames at your doors it's time to go. It takes a lot of resources to make the relocate items and we couldn't expend those, you know at the wrong time or we didn't want to have to deal with that. And we also had to think about who makes the call is it myself as the collections manager or operations director is it our executive director. So we ended up determining that once any collections holding area was immediately adjacent to an active evacuation zone. The fire order organizes communities into different evacuation zones and there are evacuation warnings and then there are active evacuation orders. And so once collections items were stored immediately adjacent to an active evacuation zone that had been ordered to evacuate the executive director would inform collection staff that it was time for us to relocate items. So this is something that we have institutionalized into our emergency plan now, and we're thinking about what that looks like for other potential disasters like tsunami warnings and things like this. So, this ultimately we did end up needing to relocate items at our offsite storage location. And so our priority items list a snippet of what you can see on the screen was incredibly important part of this process I noticed a lot of you talking about you know kind of like how to decide and like objects first records and things. It's really important to write out this list of priority items and this is something that was emphasized in a lot of the literature, or is emphasized and something that really rang true to our experience. And in one of those ways you know most of our priority items are in our main collections storage space on site at our museum. So we're writing this list forcing to articulate the priority level of items that have historically been held at our offsite storage unit, and then I have not yet had much of the opportunity to work with so I don't think about them as much. I will also say that the items we ended up evacuating from our offsite storage unit are a selection of items that technically belongs to sort of a local history kind of community. We're not explicitly hours but we're stewarding them we're working with that group to come up with a stewardship agreement. But in that way they kind of function like loans do where they have like a special priority because we're holding these kind of interest for other folks. And while they weren't at our main storage facility they were something we wanted to make sure we're kept safe. Ultimately the fires did not impact the storage unit where we were holding these that they could have in thinking through the evacuation, we had to brainstorm where to put things. So, one thing that was really helpful is that storage unit is organized all into boxes with items on rolling shelving units so we were able to just like pull that out. The boxes are numbered we relocated about 13 bankers boxes worth of materials. All told it took about four hours to go get them relocate them make sure everything had like an up to date inventory list and things like this. One thing you have to think about to is where to put things. So it's important and one big takeaway when you consider your planning is that most semi public or public spaces that might be used for collections relocation will likely be taken up by people and emergency supplies. Because we're really small, we rely in part on public storage units, and we were able to temporarily relocate items from our collection storage unit to an event and education supplies unit that was further away from the evacuation zones. We articulated but did not have to use our next possible location, which was the executive director's home even further down the coast. It was critical that our executive director Felicia Stolk who had a lot to do, including support several staff who had to be evacuated be involved in this process so that we had buy in and support. Throughout this experience from working on our emergency plan to responding to an emergency to reviewing our responses our board collections committee provided invaluable support and insight. This is a photo of our larger board, but I work closely with a subset of these folks on our collections many collections are super fun so they're all generally pretty enthusiastic about the role, but I'm super grateful that several of them become super invested in emergency planning, especially for smaller institutions who often have to call upon board members and volunteers for support, cultivating an involved collections committee is an essential tool for responding to challenges at the emergency scale. If you're like thinking about building up a collections committee or some sort of advisory board, this is a task I think is a really good thing to sort of farm out is the wrong word, but take them into collaboration on. And so it was via our collections committee meeting discussion following this is you fires that we solidified you know our understandings of how our process when frozen cons, but also you know generated broader institutional and leadership level understanding so that we subsequently had support for efforts to make improvements to our processes. Like it was an easy approval for my boss and the board to say yeah Kathleen should be able to take this, you know, class and emergency preparedness to make sure that we're like capturing all these lessons correctly. So that's about emergency like immediate our response to having to relocate items and then relocate them back because they were not impacted in the way that other local institutions and people work, which I can talk more about. But we didn't think about this experience exclusively in the context of collections evacuation and salvage. We also thought about it in terms of collection development or acquisitions. So for the remainder of my presentation I'm going to talk about the efforts we made to responsibly and ethically collect items related to the CZ lighting fires and the ways that are programming and partnerships positively impacted these goals. So part of preparing for extreme weather and disasters means finding ways to regularly engage your community over these issues, especially in light of increasing climate instability which is I think something that even though we're a natural history museum maybe is a bit more in our wheelhouse I think that also affects everyone. And so I consider these sorts of issues to be within the recovery section of the emergency management cycle, which does feed into all the other components of the cycle. So, by the time our skies darkened from smoke in August of 2020 we had already experienced the unprecedented disaster of COVID. We'd already decided it was important to collect items that would help us tell that story, even if they weren't traditional natural history specimens, like this mask and this vaccination sticker. Collecting and response to the fires was similarly complicated with related challenges deciding how to acquire objects with sensitivity and how to make sure they made sense for our collections. Ultimately, we are inspired to move forward with this decision by a staff member who was evacuated during the fires and our wonderful visitor engagement manager Liz Brotten who reached out even while evacuated to a hotel outside the area to press the issue of how we were going to collect CZU. So we made sure to do our research and look around at how other institutions responded to disasters from a collecting perspective. As one example here's some objects on the national level. The Smithsonian Katrina collections, whose curators wrote papers on how they went about developing a collection that captured a super cataclysmic painful complicated event. In the local community, we had institutions like the San Lorenzo Valley Museum, who were still providing ways to engage folks in their local history writing this blog, for example, while the staff themselves were dealing with evacuations, or the Museum of Art and History, who conducted interviews to give people a chance to share super personal stories of loss. These are just two examples, among many, and a lot of folks were out there actively participating in emergency response efforts that were more people focused like getting folks food shelter and information that they needed to deal with being evacuated and having their homes destroyed. I especially wanted to think about what it made sense for us to collect as a natural history museum, and this is something we found inspiration for in our own collections. We have a selection of items based on the locally devastating 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake items in this collection range from commemorative bricks to bumper stickers to a rock that illustrates evidence of fault movement. These items, some of which are very nontraditional have helped us connect with our community countless times from lectures on local natural disasters like the one featured here to our 2019 Loma Prieta commemorative exhibit, 30 years after the fact. So, synthesizing all this research experience and conversations with colleagues who were personally affected by the fires as well as considering our storage space constraints and our commitment to this natural history focus. We developed a priorities document to guide our collection efforts so you can see an excerpt of that here. We use this as a tool to communicate our project, not only through traditional outreach channels like social media, but also through personal networks. So we felt that these articulations demonstrated the thoughtfulness we wanted to bring to this collection, and all of its difficulty responses were not overwhelming. People had plenty to do, but it did work. We acquired a variety of natural materials directly affected by the fires, including leaves cones and ash, and we had a number of people who expressed appreciation that that was something that we were interested in doing. So to further cue from that Loma Prieta collection I talked about. We also purchased some small items for the collection, including memorabilia whose creators were donating proceeds to local relief orgs, or other groups. And one example is the sticker by local artist Clara spars who gifted proceeds to the local on the moots and tribal band to support their land trust and cultural burns program. Knowing that community networks are such a critical component of disaster recovery, we wanted to capture the incredible outpouring of community support related to this event. I'm also really proud to say that our organization did more than just purchase stickers our executive director supported staff members to volunteer up to a certain number of hours at community emergency response efforts on work time, including sorting and distributing emergency supplies or taking calls at the Cal Fire Information Center. Respectively this engagement also led to growth in our CZU fire collection, like the acquisition of several Cal Fire operations maps charting the fires development. I think this is an important example of the way that engaging with your community in terms of crisis is always beneficial in more ways than one, especially when you want to enhance collections that speak to your community need. I think it's also a good example of the importance of collaboration across departments, even in the context of a small staff were very small. It was very easy to get siloed and we deliberately communicated with staff about our interest in collecting CZU related objects and had some extensive talks about being sensitive to these difficulties, you know, talking about these kinds of things. And it was in fact a non collection staff member who was volunteering with Cal Fire who took advantage of the opportunity to get these maps. So for some of you, this unexpected collections success story as well as others that I'm about to share, provide you with concrete examples that you can use when advocating for community engagement and interdepartmental collaboration opportunities. So another good example of collections growth outside our deliberate CZU campaign was our community photography exhibit 2020 vision in which community members were asked to submit photographs of their 2020 experiences for inclusion in a hybrid digital and virtual exhibit. But many of these images focused on aspects of the fire such as the orange lighthouse afternoon on the first slide, the deep orange sky, this was like 4pm, maybe 3pm in this, you know, in this photo of the Santa Cruz town clock, or this image of Santa Cruz Cypress cones opening in response to fire conditions. These images as you can tell from using them in this presentation, while not explicitly part of our CZU collection continue to be useful points of illustration for the significance of the fires and our ongoing responses to them. So, speaking of ongoing responses, I will say that we did anticipate some ways that are like non collections initiatives and programs we're going to kind of at expand to collections. We just didn't initially focus on traditional notions of collections. We have an ongoing CZU lightning complex community science project that empowers community scientists, the folks to collect biodiversity data from areas impacted by the fires. The CZU project which uses the community science platform, I naturalist observations shown here on the slide is a joint project from UCSE's Kenneth Norris Center for natural history, and the California Native Plant Society. So it builds out a collection, so to speak, of data on the I naturalist platform that is accessible to all from scientists to members of the public. These partnerships also fed into our interest in collecting specimens related to the CZU fire. As it cultivated our relationship with CNPS staff who were able to collect for us partially open cones from the burn zone, a place that you know most average folks unless you have really explicit reasons to be there weren't allowed to go. These help us demonstrate the unique fire apology adaptation work homes of some conifers open to response to fire conditions as pictured in one of the earlier slides. Closely tied to our science project was our CZU and U program series the year after the fire program series designed to promote an ongoing understanding of the fires their effects and what it means for people to be prepared on the central coast. This program series was put together by our incredible public programs manager Marisa Gomez. You can see here in the screenshot of our CZU and new event that focused on community collections responses to the fires. It was through this program that I really first collaborated with Jenny. And, you know, we like talked about the different kinds of lessons that we learned from our very different fire experiences. So not only was this an excellent program that received a lot of positive feedback, I think it was really important, especially for folks in the community who experienced loss to hear about what that would look like on an institutional level. It was an important opportunity to strengthen ties with local collection staff. Which in turn also supported our collections Jenny's experience talking about the impact of CZU a big basin included a discussion of burned taxidermy armatures from the former museum site. As the result of this productive partnership Jenny not only became aware of our collecting interests but also felt comfortable sharing these specimens with us specimens that not only help us tell the story of CZU, but also the history of science and taxidermy in the modern day region. So we're super grateful for all the partners and community members who have donated items to our CZU fire collections or participated with us in programming events, and we will continue to look for opportunities to connect our community with collections that better reflect you know what people are experiencing in their daily lives. And so that is the end of my presentation. And I'm going to stop sharing and let Robin introduce Shakira. Yep, sounds good. Thanks so much Kathleen and thank you to Jenny. Wildfires are obviously not leaving us anytime soon as our hurricane so now I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to Shakira to talk a little bit about what she dealt with with preparedness and getting ready for a hurricane season down in Puerto Rico Shakira go ahead whenever you're ready. So I'm going to change chair screen chair. Let me move this. Hi everybody. Hola. Welcome here to the hurricane section on stream weather information. I call it the always assisting hurricane season because I have no way whatsoever. I have to control the hurricane season living in an island in the middle of the Caribbean so I have to deal with it every single year. Some days are easier some seasons are worse. And since already we have been like it's going to be five years from hurricane with a camera. So hopefully so far everything has been very calm in the Atlantic. I'm going to my presentation. Also, I always use this slide as my star beginning because it's not only the hurricane season that I have to take care of it right now we are in the midst of the waking again of the earthquakes. And the heat wave and droughts and today is a thunderstorm. So also we have to deal with COVID so we have to be on top every day about our emergency preparedness and you see this disaster plans. And this one here that in the in the bottom is the national service from San Juan Puerto Rico the one I always have in hand following in the social media because that's the one who tell me right away what is coming the next in the following five, five days or so. So I have to check almost these pages every two days or so. So is keep me on my toes during these months of the year and everybody the museum. So as a and this is part the most important part that I use for my planning disaster. And the mitigation preparation response and recovery using these four points is the one I use to prepare my emergency plan and everything I have to do with the hurricane season. And I chose to keep in mind because I have to use a lot of resources, especially human resources and material resources for a lot of things because we are a very small museum, we already have like five people on staff. And also, we have right now they're entering because the museum is inside the University of Puerto Rico now we are recruiting of a volunteer so the training season for their help is going to start soon next week. So to keep on toes because already August 15 is the point the peak start the peak of the hurricane season. Let me see why. Okay. So, I'm going to share, you know, just share this slide with you guys so you understand those lines have you seen the top of the map of Puerto Rico at the history of the hurricanes. We have so you have we are only 100 miles by 34 miles of the size of the island. So you can see no matter what owner the size of the hurricane is going to have a direct impact on the island. It's going to be on the coast or inland is going to be direct. I consider that a direct direct damage so it's important to understand that they usually the, the high the hurricane season start for June 1 to November 30 I have to be prepared. Even for a May or April on some things that I can do beforehand because of the size of the staff and the reality I really we have in the peak of the Caribbean in between August, right now at the first week on October. So I had to have that in mind, but within my resources, even for budget to buy and the staff I count in that moment. So, I'm not going to use, you know, to read all those. Yes, things that I write about the hurricane season but it's very important you to understand that I'm a little obsessed with meteorology so that's why I can read all those things that have it to you. So if it wasn't a register, I would be a meteorologist so that's another story, but let me check here. So, part of important in the preseason is the mitigation and I learned how to read the Sophia Simpson hurricane categories scale, because we in the Puerto Rico we have one, two and three categories no until Maria, that is the category five is the first time we have that so I have to spec for the worst, even though I didn't know what the worst was. So, within our budget, we think we have already used, have worked for us, and beforehand, we have to put it in the works and believe me, that wasn't the case for some areas for us, at least. This was a good team to do, and it works for our museum. I always write the tip number one, what this means for you in your area, because we are, I'm in Puerto Rico, I'm in the metropolitan area, I'm in the capital in San Juan. We are in a fairly secure area at our buildings, most of the buildings in Puerto Rico, different to other sites or other states, we are in concrete constructions. So that's the devastation and so areas in the metropolitan area, we didn't have to be buildings was a little smaller to the other sides of the of the island. One of the things that I use to learn while doing hurricane areas is to use the GIS, the geographic information systems. This page helped me to understand. So, where do you, the hurricane is, if I have a water search or a storm search, what are you going to stop, or where are you going to camp near the museum or the university because the museum is inside the university. What is the current water data of Puerto Rico you have at a drought, what kind of water, if I have a fire, I have resources near the university and within the university. And also we can check the hazards, we can have around every time during the day, the United States, your local service, you can put your state, and you can have for a couple of information that can help you to write the evacuation plan or the disaster plan or the emergency plan depending on your emergency. This is very important for me and also keep them on my toes. I'm going to share it with you. I think I just want to like this. The slide in the bottom is that you can see like a yellow underline. That is the tsunami damage that could happen in Puerto Rico if we have that event. The city on the south is the University of Puerto Rico, so that light between storm search or tsunami search to the university is less than 100 miles in the old, yeah. It is very, very, very scary to have that in mind, no matter what is the emergency call happen, it could have the kind of damage. So that also made me to understand where the museum is inside the university, inside the university, and what is the construction and the direction of the winds of a hurricane. The photograph that you have in the bottom that was in 2017 after Maria, the building you are seeing is the theater of the university here in Puerto Rico and this is the 2022 version of the photo. So five years after Maria, at least we have all of our foliage back, but it was a very sad thing. I don't have a lot of photos because I lost that digital file. And sometimes being in Puerto Rico after Maria and working in the recovery as an island and in the university, it was kind of hard. So it's still, I think we always say that we still have PTSD, a lot of the Puerto Ricans, but we manage because we have to keep going because we decide to understand what a hurricane is and get our resources. And then the map that you have on the top is the Hurricane Maria. That was the size of it. So you can see cover all the island. It was over 125 miles per hour and stay over us over 10 hours. So that direct damage get to us to really understand how long can it be because some hurricanes then more like could be two hours and they're out of the island, but this one was very repeatedly. So that kind of stick with you how much is going to be the damage of it. So I always have to know what are my reliable resources for the weather updates of Cordano on the hurricane center, our radio stations or locals. So I always have to know where I am, if I am knowing the emergency disaster office area, what are their emergency plans and our emergency plans statewide local and museum when I say local, I have to also know the university emergency disaster so I have to put in them together. The emergency plan is very important to us because oh, this is this is the slide is out of space. The red dot is where the University of Puerto Rico is. So now you can see this the tsunami area of the storm area that could happen in the worst case scenario. And we get here in the tsunami program tool in the GIS database so you can see I can know I can see what is the worst it can happen as today, because this map change, how do you know, you know, climate change how the water and the sea level go within the seasons so you can see in your right below the state tsunami storm is the, is the airport, the main airport of the island so you can see at some point it can be underwater. So they have to have a new emergency plan to know where the others to possible airports can happen in the next 10 years because this is a concern right now. So as you can see the University of Puerto Rico is the red dot I'm very clear to very near to that damage area and also is a very important area because we can go inland or we can have moved to one side to the other. If I have to move collections right now we don't move any collections outside of our building during the hurricane season this is a secure all building. So far, so, and within the University we have another building that maybe can work for us as as as our storage, and also we work as a storage for a lot of collections within the University. So we have to be able to provide that kind of secure for the collection, especially for the library use the building right next to us. So I trying to prioritize the emergency you can see the first, the first slide that have the, you know, the COVID and the air quotes. So I have to be in top so what we might prevent the procedures to have on hand. How many style do I have each type of this emergency what are my equipment supplies. Do I have outside help. Why do I need right now. So the most important photo that can control is the emergency evaluation plan. So I can know what is my actual capability of acquire materials and also to training our day my plan with the staff I have right now, we have right now at the University. I mean in the museum. And also the university staff. One of the most important tools that we have you don't have emergency disaster plan, the prep is very important the pocket response plans because make you write down to sit down and on table read with your staff, which are our phones who are the person closest to the to the university, who have the keys to enter to the museums, or the security codes, if we have, you know, electric electric power. What kind of first responders are going to be how many do what what do I have to call to enter to understand what is the emergency. And then in the museum at that time of the after the hurricane. So that's why it's always a preseason preparation that's what I have the, the, the check on the top of the each slides that made me to understand if that moment of preparation, I have to have the prep. But also, this is the backside of the prep. So you have to coordinate your responses, what's going to be my salvage recovery materials, if I need to, where do I can obtain more information more helps. So it's very important to know and very be familiarized with these, with these documents. So this is kind of reference for our for the museum history and to body or emergency plan. I have icons. Obviously right now this is in Spanish. I will you know where I can put now the health trust and the health trust they have just you know Sarah don't events at the end of the pandemic epidemic you know that's kind of stuff is right now is on the works so. So no other you know hurricane hurricane is how you can see is in the first page, because of incidents is a very important the order of the emergency so right now after our communication plan will be the floods fire and earthquakes and then going to be here against thunderstorms. And the other part is the one is the server the salvage and recommend the procedural is also in our emergency disaster plan. In this image I is the tip number two we have to check list I do the checklist everything what is my material do I have so the disaster kids are very important. There are a lot of pages so you can create your own. You can go to believe me from always not in I to a dollar store to get most of them because most of most of them, you can get the most fancy one because most of them, they're going to be damaged at the end of the emergency or the recovery part. So you have a broom and my bucket. It towels, everything that you can have low budget because it's going to help you at some point. So it's very important to have a rack ready to all. To plastic cheating to send bags to all betting because the old betting is very important it can be like a water barrier and the betting is, you know, you we change it we don't know what to do with them maybe our is not the best one, but it's the cheapest one for get resources. So it's very important to understand what I can use and what I can have to end that and the comforts when I call it does the most help us because I can put it inside our storage or outside their stores were around some of the sort of the collections or the sculptures, for example, there's other photo where you know I have my volunteer this photo was taken before you would I came Maria and they will photo on the bottom is this our storage door, we create a barrier like a dam with plastic cheating and sandbags because that area was just in front from a lot of windows so if the windows broke, I know that was very one of my wicked spots. So it's very important to know the construction and you know some museum they use the building they use the building because they look nice and they design it but maybe it wasn't designed to be a museum so you have to you know work with what you have. What are the checklist you have to have the documents all the documents and that is also the records of their works of art. All the collections are in the cloud right now I have inventories and very simple except a cell cheat when I have a when I have date and numbers session numbers where where was the location and that information and worse. And any other very delicate point of that work, but I don't move and collection from from the our stories to outside the museum. What are the volunteers you have to what where account with pre storms or or after the events, the resources when I put for the water is not only for your staff for you and in your house is very important because that go with the mental health. And this is very important I know, but the other panelists have mentioned it this is very important because we are, we can go anywhere we have to stay inside the island, because the airports. Close, I think within 2448 hours before a hurricane so there's no way you can go outside if we have this event. So we have to mental check. While we have well, while we have to work within the museum with our houses. Right now this is the Atlanta hurricane season outlook so far they they didn't change it in the last two weeks so they'll still expecting six to 10 hurricanes and three to stick can turn into major hurricane so far is have been very very very creepy but I can work with that so the documents in the cloud have a seat in your office how and the start circuit. Get your country the collections location plan is going to be various copy but limited because there's also security bridge, you have to know who is going to have this information where was your collection or your more precious painting. It was our stories and also you have to have control that that was the inventory and condition report forms you can print that print out beforehand those and I have a couple. I have the forms in the clouds. So if I find a place that I can have electrical and supply because in the last hurricane, for example, in the museum, we spent four months without electricity. So we have to work and get all the documents and information from the collections and know the conservation of them, because I want to just register that I still have the collections. in wrecking hand record cards. So I know where's the collection, the session number and the localization of the of the object with these and that is the the archives that is in the back. So if they are in my office they are waterproof and fire proof that's one control I can have, but also they have digital copies in the cloud. The damage assessment forms are very important to have also beforehand all those are an institutional for example here they. The museum but also you have to know the famous standards they because you have a damage you have to do to report that damage and you will know beforehand how they are designed is easier for you to understand and fill out those forms so very important also create your own institutional damage assessment forms you don't know the other that you will end up feeling anyway. Preseason preparation as you can see these are my inside whole as sculptures those can be moved. So I use plastic sheeting. tape and stretch wrap stretch wrap I have I have a no big is the best one ever because doesn't. If you use tape they high humidity in percentage Puerto Rico the other Steve won't work. So is the stretch wrap who worked for me is going to stay in and they're going to get sticky everyone home humidity so this is a very cheap. A very good tip to get your sculptures wrap around to protect at least have one protection in the outside of the. Outside because they are going to be outside in the in the whole so there's very important also when you have volunteers know when you have it you have a high two days beforehand. I'm going to use them I going to I'm going to grab the sculptures I don't care if I watch this is a warning I going to do it anyway. Knowing the different between watch and warning is very important because in the for example our emergency plan I know a team that I have to do during a watch. I know team that I have to do during a warning. So that's the time to activate the disaster emergency plan talk about the staff situation. I'm going to go to the museum why home wise because I live on 10 minutes from the museum but some people can leave one hour from the museum so you know with that person is going to be outside is going to be you know out of your first responder in the in the museum just you know for security purposes. You have to reinforce in that moment, the communication system for us during Maria, the after Maria, the one it works, it was a simple cheat, put it in the door, reading, hi, I'm check it out. I came inside the museum and 1030 I check it this this this because there were any cell phones we don't have cell cell cell phones. So, and I know I know who person came inside the most younger do what, and then I can pick it pick up that pick up that work and keep going in inside the evaluation and assessment of the collection after that. So, as simple as a paper pudding with tape on the door is work as a communication system to understanding my actual tip after the power loss was a very, it was the most straightforward for me because we have a high humidity. We have the string the hot the sun and the heat was very high after Maria. So, we have some structural damage so we have to put them you see the photograph. There are the windows in front of our storage so I put paper rolls or white paper so I can deflect a little bit of the sun and the heat from that hole so I can breathe a little bit so I can open the doors and have to work within the our storage because we have no electricity so I work with a head lamp inside to do the assessments of the collections. I stopped on another tip that I use. I know this is you know, on legal or not, but there's kind of a phone for the sealed doors in the bottom of the emergency doors work for us is like a barrier that you can take it after with a little bit of thinner and you can dilute that phone but that is an amazing water stopper to go inside and under the doors with a very fine line. We still use it when I have a storage coming that's the first thing right now that I bought for my emergency materials so that's what I'm going to share with you. I hope it works. And both event and recovery for us, it can take from six months to five years. I put five years in counting but we still haven't managed a damage from Yurike and Maria. In the museum, thankfully, we didn't have any damage within the collections. There was no water leakage inside our storage and there were only very small structural damage within us so that's why I can't get to go and help other museums to recover the collections. Right now, the local cultural emergency group, the Alianza Cultura para Emergencia was created after Yurike and Maria and we are right now eight members that we take the classes in the certification from Hentif and the Smithsonian Rescue initiative so because we learned important for us in Puerto Rico to understand and create the emergency plan and that was our first year to be created in the Alianza Cultural para Emergencia was to teach everybody to have a pocket plan while they have the initiation to create their own emergency plan and disaster. And also it's very important to create all this information and bibliography in Spanish and other languages because it's very important to have the broader information so that was our main thing to create all those things in Spanish and Spanish speakers and emergency planners to have these tools to do it. So this is also the natural groups and there are two books also that I have used to create all my information and they are in the bibliography section that I sent to Robin so you can also have it. And I think that's my presentation. Thanks, Shakira. I should add to that. Part of the IMLS grant the CDC care just got with FAIC was to provide more Spanish translations of all the CDC care webinar so that was a huge part of the grant that we wanted to cover so we're excited about that aspect as well. Let's take a look at the Q&A box. Jenny's been doing a bang up job and all those questions in the Q&A box so thank you for doing that but we're going to talk a little generically about some items in our last couple of minutes you all did wonderful so thank you again on covering those topics. The one thing I wanted to cover with all of you were just evacuations. Shakira was talking about, you know, they're in Puerto Rico and I had this experience in Florida so now you have nowhere to evacuate to, right? Like you look and you're kind of like, her key is going to hit us and like there's really nowhere to go. But I, yeah, exactly, but I did want to talk a little bit about, you know, there are some cases where you can do low scale evacuations. So do you all, do you all have priority lists or do you have certain items that you look at that if it hits an evacuation you know how to go about and how did you come up with some of those priorities within your collection. So I'm going to shoot over to Jenny first and see if she has an answer for that. Yeah, so at the time, no, we didn't have priority lists. I think now I know priority lists are very, very helpful. Since I wasn't there present at all of the parks that were being evacuated, you know, I was only at Wilder Ranch so it was the other staff evacuating and I think it would seem that it was just very intuitive what people grabbed. You know, they tried to pack as much that was on display. And then the interpretive staff knew about items and storage and grabbed those. And we fortunately in our district we do have a bunch of parks with there are 32 parks in the whole district. And so we did have that resource of having other places to evacuate to you know the fire was in the mountains. And so we were trying to get things out of the mountains, which is why we then moved things to the Santa Cruz mission which is right in the middle of downtown Santa Cruz basically. How, you know, like I said, I think how people decided to choose what to grab was just very instinctual. And yeah, now we know to come up with more priority lists. Yeah. Chikira do you have any comments on priority lists or I know because like I said low skill evacuation can even be you know to move some things from one location to another because it might be just, you know, safer in that situation what is your guys experience with that. For example, I tend to secure the most important. For example, in the art storage in the painting storage the most important out in the center of the of the racks. Because they are the biggest racks so I if I have to move it that will be the first yes we have a priority list because it just the university may must make us do it, but it's between our art objects archaeological objects historic objects so everything we have a priority list, but within the emergency I tried to contain everything inside our storage because and in you have the priority. I think is. There's not a drawing that I always use in my class that you have from the building to this to the storage to the to the, you know, to everything within to the object. I try to do that because I don't have anywhere to move those. So, but yes, we have a plan and also the creator have their favorite objects, I mean, the most important objects to have to take care of it. But they are granted but I don't put it inside the emergency plan because everything have to be controlled within within the within that idea to protect everything. And also I forgot to say one of the things I tried to work we haven't worked yet is to change that the the calendar for exhibition not to have big loans. I don't do the hurricane season but still working. Yeah, well and someone pointed that out in the chat and that's always been my role is that loaned items usually get the highest priority, right, yes, they are ours. They are being putting into our trust. So that's one thing you have to consider when looking at it is loaned items are always the highest tend to always almost have a highest priority within the the list of things to be moved. The other thing I wanted to touch upon in our last couple minutes is just what I always call the people factor but it does feel like you know when it comes to mental health and really looking at these things. It looks like everyone had varied response on what kind of mental health sources that they had or if their governing institutions gave them kind of like mental sources to kind of help them with things do you guys have any comments on just how it's come about I know I after I definitely had PTSD after it I mean just driving through a hurricane landscape and driving through National Guard and kind of being like what is happening to our little island home, you know what I mean it hit us in very different ways so do you guys have any comments on that factor or sources, you know about that might be helpful to people. I think I wrote in the chat that, you know, there had been a district wide emotional support session scheduled for some reason I can't remember why I wasn't able to go to it. It was also like I said, you know peak COVID time so I think a lot of people didn't go because it was going to be an in person session. This must have been in September of 2020, you know, and I think a lot of people did avoid it. It was pretty much the only emotional resources. I was aware of but like I wrote, you know, at least 20 state parks staff housing units were destroyed at Big Basin. So I think the focus, I think of our district wide resources were on supporting those people who lost their houses and I can and I understand why there were some financial resources that were available for people who were who lost their houses or evacuated I actually did benefit from a small grant from our friends organization because you know I was evacuated for five weeks and had to pay rent and you know basically in two places. But yeah emotional. I definitely feel like I have a little PTSD, you know, you know, we just had another like dry lightning storm come through like within the last couple days and it, it causes a lot of PTSD around here still. So yeah it's kind of an ongoing thing. Anybody else have any other resources they found useful. I will quickly say if you guys can, if we're thinking of some is just talking to some of my friends who have dealt with it was really useful to me now with the world of zoom, knowing other people have gone through it was quite helpful just speaking to them in person so. So someone just go ahead, Kathleen. Oh, I was going to say I think that that is something that we found with a lot of our like post disaster programming is that people do just benefit a lot from talking about this stuff and being able to have an opportunity to tell these stories. And so having like we constantly had like a fire resources up for like I think about a year after the original fires with like different community resources like volunteering initiatives which like people express feeling really connected to other folks through and then doing programming where people could then come into the chat and talk about their experiences. Yeah, that's great. So the question popped in which I think is a good wrap up question real quick, which is our museum does not have an emergency plan, and they said I know any idea where I can find a good example. So I would like each of you to tell me what your favorite resource was, or is in developing emergency plans. So Shakira, can you go first and tell us what your favorite resources and developing emergency plans. So our emergency plan was a part of no, for example, because we are within the University of Puerto Rico. So using the University of Puerto Rico campus make campus emergency plan, help me to make mine, and also because we are an accreditation museum. So I have to know to put another things inside so always read as if I'm at my university museum, I will go for a university museum emergency plan because we have another things if you have a historical you have a science museum. So because you have another collections and other things to go through so is the collections that make me that make me help to make my emergency plan. And also my location geographical where I am inside the, the, the island, because we have made we are very small but we have very different weather during the, during the day so also is very important. So that also helped me a lot. So just read a lot, even though I read for Maine, for Pittsburgh to Florida to Columbia and Chile, because of the different weather. So I have all over for Latin America to read examples to it. Perfect. Yeah, and that's a good point that if you're part of the system make sure that your plan talks to the other plans. Don't don't don't write your own little plan over the corner you got to get back to those other plans as well. Kathleen what's your favorite source when it comes to developing emergency plans. I saw that faith in the chat but a reference to the national the northeast document conservation centers suite of resources which were incredible. I was lucky enough to take their course about improving our emergency plan after we wrote it was super helpful and really emphasize like talking to other museums and collections holding institutions in your community. I did a lot from that, but faith already put that so I will also say that National Park Service makes available their museum handbook publicly and there I scavenged a lot of pieces of their emergency plan chapter for writing mine. Perfect. And Jenny what's your favorite resource when it comes to emergency plans. I, so, since I am part of a large state entity the state parks, I do get a lot of resources from our, our main collection staff that are up in Sacramento, but I'm pretty sure that all of their emergency plans also come from the National Park Service museum handbook, and that just in general that national or for me for our types of collections that National Park Service handbook comes in really helpful for a lot of things. Yeah, I think so I think a lot of people use as a reference I also say the Getty has a good handbook for emergency planning that I would recommend to people that's online. I think yes any DCC came up with the plan 2.0, which is an online template that you can use to help develop plans so I would definitely say go to our website connecting to collections or type in emergency planning you'll find all sorts of fun stuff. Also FAC is just emergency section has really good resources and it comes to emergency plans. And it's 235 Eastern so I have to wrap up today's program. I'm just going to also say for real quick takeaway that all of you mentioned or you know and definitely to Karen Kathleen I think you to Jenny you all work with relatively smaller staff, right. It's not you're not in these institutions with 20 some odd people and it's really impressive to me how you guys really thought out your plans how you really thought about how to prepare. I think the takeaway you guys did when dealing with your types of extreme weather were also incredibly important so well done, and we hope that people will reach out to you all directly they have for specific questions on how planning happens. Okay. I'm going to also note to that on our website on connecting to collections.org you can see fabulous resources that these folks have put together we have a resource sheet we have notes from the presentations and copies of the presentation so if you go to that webpage you will be able to find those. So again, thank you to all three of you we really appreciate it and we will see you all soon thanks to IMLS thanks to FAIC and also are the folks at learning times. We hope everyone stays safe that hurricane stays relatively quiet but we know there's other disasters and weather out there so if everyone please stay safe and know that we have a great community out here and to reach out if you need help in any way shape or form. Thanks again and we will see you all in September. Talk to you soon. Thank you.