Emergency management....what the heck is it and why should anyone care? I don't know how many times when people ask me what I do and I tell them I'm an emergency management specialist, they look at me like what planet are you from? Well, in the interest of full transparency, I'm a retired emergency management specialist, but I still get that same look no matter how I couch it. For those who've never really thought about or heard of emergency management it's nothing more, really, than managing emergencies...or trying to as it were. On a broad societal scale, the definition in the graphic above applies and it takes someone with a certain skill-set to be able to 'game the system' in order to make it work. On an individual level, though, we've all done it, and we're all gonna continue to do it....especially if we have accident prone kids or we're responsible for accident prone adults like me. We manage cuts, bruises, scratches, broken bo...