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!
It sounds to me like you have an excellent paper on your hands. I would be curious to see what those right along the river were feeling too. I can't imagine being in my house and every day watching the river as it slowly rises toward my house. It has to make a person sick to the stomach.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it was very easy for the VCSU campus to just send a mass email to everyone. I think that is something that communities should consider doing. They should have everyone who has an email account add their address to a list so it would be easy for everyone to be contacted at once.
I think that it would be interesting to compare and contrast the Valley City community and VCSU. I think that we, the students, staff, and faculity of VCSU, were very lucky to have the interent to connect us. I could not imagine having to listen to the radio or watch the news to see if we had class or not or find out the information about the flood. It was very nice and convienent to just have emails sent to us about the information.
ReplyDeleteYou were and are very lucky to not have been in Valley City during the flood. It was horrible and having to walk over dikes to get to my car was NOT fun!!
Have great summer! and good luck in everything you do!!
As I finish my paper at this 11th hour, I wish you the best on both your research paper and your post-flood recovery. In my research for my paper, I learned that even those not affected as severely by flooding still have messes to clean up and still had ordeals in getting sandbags around their homes. Regardless of the extent, it was not a fun spring for anyone. Here's wishing for a better, and far more relaxing, summer!
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