Registered with the Red Cross

Today has been a pretty uneventful day; I slept through my alarm which got me off to a great start. I meet up with a few other Avaya associates in the hotel lounge -- one of whom I worked with almost 8 years ago.

After a quick breakfast it was off to Red Cross HQ in Montgomery to get registered as a volunteer. Once registration was complete we attended a Disaster Relief Worker training session and then had a quick orientation on the history of the Red Cross.

Our project is called RTT-Kiosk; my understanding of the operation is this:
Other companies have been deployed teams to Austin, TX. The Austin team's job is to package and pre-configure equipment (PC's, laptops, routers, network switches and IP telephones) for each shelter location on a pallet. Once the equipment is palletized in Austin it will then be shipped to one of two forward staging locations -- Baton Rouge, LA & Montgomery, AL. Once the equipment arrives at the forward location our teams will be responsible for transporting it to and installing it at the shelters throughout the region. The Montgomery team is responsible for shelters and the disaster area east of the Mississippi River. In order to speed the installation process we will be split into teams of two; our goal is that each team will complete two installations per day; we expect to spend most of our time travelling to and from the shelters.

I expect we will get an early start Tuesday morning. Our team is meeting up at HQ in Montgomery at 7am. Hopefully, we will have news from the telecom vendor that there are circuits installed so our work can begin.

Everyone take care,
Mitch