Bopcha Blog

Just a tidbit from my work: Last week we played an exercise in which California (LA) got hit by a big earthquake--I think the California part actually hit the news. We got busy requesting DoD assets and organizing our response should California request the President for our help--I flung myself about along with the others, making my computer smoke with the fury of my keystrokes (close as I can get to action being at the headquarters), hurrying to identify what capabilities California might need from us and trying to line them up, etc---and then suddenly, the earthquake went away from the exercise story line, no doubt due to real life California problems, like wildfires. There I sat, computer keyboard still quivering from my last keystroke and nothing to do, but real work that I could have and would have had done IF the exercise hadn't happened. Sort of like being removed from my theater seat in the middle of an exciting movie and dropped back on the sidewalk in the afternoon sun.