Final Blog

Well here is my last blog. It has been interesting, I fought it the whole way, and finally it's over with. I have decided to write my crisis communication paper on both the Valley City community and the VCSU community. I want to do both because i feel that you can not get the whole picture only from one view point of the crisis. Therefore i plan to write my paper from both angles. I want to find out how people from the community received their information about the happenings. I also want to analyze how the VCSU community as rallied compared to the Valley City community. Here at VCSU we are all connected through email, it is very easy to send mass emails to everyone attending VCSU. I want to explore the hurdles Valley City officials faced in rallying troops for the sandbagging effort.
I was lucky enough to have moved out of Valley City in January to Devils Lake before all of the melting of snowing and flooding of rivers had started. So i feel very fortunate because i just heard that the house I was living in while in Valley City had contingency dikes on both streets in front of it. Sounds like my old roommates are having a heck of a time trying to get in and out. My goal is to get the views of those directly affected by the water and or dikes and to see if they feel that Valley City did a good enough job in protecting them. This project will be good for me to help see what a great community Valley City is.
It's been fun blogging with everyone. Hope you all have a great summer!