Belize National Emergency Management Organization Conducts "2012" Earthquake, Flood & Super Weather System Drill in Cayo District

If I keep talking about stuff like this super emergency drill in Belize that support the whole 2012 notion, then I might start believing it. The drill involves an earthquake followed by a dam breaking and then some type of weather system -- or as I would call it, "the worst day ever." However, a mere drill is not evidence of any imminent danger. As for the 2012 stuff, I am just paraphrasing the article.

Click here for the official National Emergency Management Organization page on this drill.

Heard of the perfect storm? What about the perfect disaster? Well, if there is such a thing, the National Emergency Management Organization staged it today in the Cayo District. It’s the combination of an earthquake leading to a dam break leading to a massive flood – all coinciding with a weather system. Sounds kind of like the storyline for 2012, right? It’s not – NEMO says it is a maximum credible event – and they involved 3,500 people in the biggest disaster simulation ever playing out all across the Cayo District. We were there in the planning stage this morning.

Jules Vasquez Reporting,
This is the rescue of a woman drowning in the Macal River. It’s just a simulation – she’s not really drowning but it’s a small part of the biggest live simulation in NEMO’s history.

Jules Vasquez,
“Is this the largest single simulation you all have done?”

Major Shelton DeFour, NEMO
“Yes it’s the largest single live event simulation."

And this group is going over the details of that event.

Major Shelton DeFour,
“Basically today we are testing the dam early warning system for Challilo or for the dams in Cayo and what we are looking at is the siren system to see if it will work, how people will react to it if they hear it, and how people will get to safety. In a nutshell that is what we are trying to achieve.”

And the scenario is that simultaneous occurrence of a dam break and bad weather.

Major Shelton DeFour,
“Well basically we have a weather system building up some pressure in terms of flooding in the Cayo District and that will be complicated by an earthquake which should trigger the warning system to ensure that people react to the drills that have been set out in the plan and that has been practiced by the committee.”

And it was rehearsed down to every detail by the district coordinator Al Westby...

Source: 7 News Belize