I'll organize something.

For example, we have these two binders that we take with us if there is a
fire/emergency (see below). The white one is for all emergencies (fire,
bomb, tornado, active shooter, etc.), the red one is a recovery plan if
something happens. The red binder is amended every year, and each
department has a chapter of: A.) what the priority items are (aka types),
b.) where they are in the collection and c.) what special recovery
procedures and safety issues need to be implemented for your specific
departments (formalin for herps, rusty pins or glass from broken drawers
for us). All curators and collection managers have to do a walk-through of
each other's departments so we know where everything is and high priority
areas are marked in RED. We also have the fire department do a
walk-through of all of our collections so they know what to rescue first
in each space. We also go through recovery training every few years where
we actually deal with recovering objects and triage.

I can do a talk highlighting the big parts of these documents (the red
binder is 416 pages!). Our philosophy is prevention is what we can offer;
we will be hit by a tornado eventually just based on statistics, so we
want to plan ahead as much as we can and prepare as best as we can.

Katrina


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>If you guys are interested, I could help organize a symposium on this.
>Since our museum is in the middle of tornado alley (and earthquake, and
>flooding, and wildfire alley...etc.) we have a strong emergency
>preparedness protocol. I can talk about what we do here if anyone would
>like to see what we and others to.
>
>Katrina
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>On 4/26/16 2:05 PM, "Entomological Collections Network Listserve on behalf
>of Shockley, Floyd" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
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>>Indeed, Lynn.  And it's not a matter of if, but when it happens.  Though
>>California collections have put more emphasis in recent years on
>>fortifying their buildings to make them more prepared for the big one
>>when it comes.  
>>
>>Kinda makes me wonder if there isn't an opportunity here (with our larger
>>meeting and more international members joining us in Orlando) for a
>>mini-symposium on collection emergency preparedness or lack thereof.
>>Hint, hint...  The earthquake here in 2011 followed 4 days later by
>>Hurricane Irene taught us much about our physical infrastructure and what
>>we were doing right vs. what could be improved.  Entomology survived
>>without a single specimen lost (and across the museum the loss of
>>specimens was relatively small), but we are STILL in the process of
>>fixing the damage.
>>
>>Floyd
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>Floyd W. Shockley, Ph.D., F.R.E.S.
>>Collections Manager (Acting)
>>Department of Entomology
>>National Museum of Natural History
>>Smithsonian Institution
>>P.O. Box 37012, MRC 165
>>Washington, DC 20013-7012
>>Tel (office): 202-633-0982
>>Fax (office): 202-786-2894
>>Mobile (personal): 703-789-4924
>>Email:  [log in to unmask]
>>Staff Website:  http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/ShockleyF.html
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Entomological Collections Network Listserve
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lynn Kimsey
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 2:57 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Delhi museum catastrophe
>>
>>Doug,
>>That's horrible. They've basically lost their biological heritage in one
>>fire. This is what worries me about collections in California. Most of
>>them are located on major fault lines.
>>
>>Lynn
>>
>>________________________________________
>>From: Entomological Collections Network Listserve
>><[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Doug Yanega <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:26:05 AM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Delhi museum catastrophe
>>
>>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36136752
>>
>>This the NMND, India's National Museum, and this is truly an appalling
>>disaster. They do not report any injuries, which is good, but our
>>colleagues there are apparently now without either a home, or a
>>collection. Truly devastating.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>--
>>Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
>>Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
>>phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
>>              http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html
>>   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
>