This one sounds interesting. I'm not sure it's for the common man though.
Serving: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
The Federal Regional Center (FRC) is located in Bothell, Washington, six miles from Seattle's northern city limit. The Region employs 85 full-time employees, and can draw on a cadre of over 300 Disaster Assistance Employees (DAEs) or "reservists" during a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
FEMA Region X administers the federal emergency preparedness, damage prevention, and response and recovery programs to Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. FEMA provides pre-disaster and post-disaster assistance to minimize the loss of life, and reduce damage and economic loss from natural and technological hazards. In both pre-disaster and post-disaster efforts, FEMA works in close partnership with State emergency management agencies.
Constructed on the site of a decommissioned Nike missile site, the Bothell FRC is one of six similar operations centers built during the late 1960s. Total cost of design, construction, etc. was $1,860,000 (estimated cost of constructing a similar building in 1983 was over $25 million, and the cost today would easily exceed $40 million). The building itself is a subterranean office structure designed to be reasonably survivable in the event of foreseeable natural or man-made disasters.
http://www.fema.gov/regions/x/regx.shtm
IIRC, FEMA also has access to a number of portable power generators that can, by themselves power a city of up to 10,000 folks. I think there are a dozen of them scattered across the nation. Also, IIRC, the REX-84 plan calls for the country to be divided up into several military districts, each being run by a military governor.
Serving: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
The Federal Regional Center (FRC) is located in Bothell, Washington, six miles from Seattle's northern city limit. The Region employs 85 full-time employees, and can draw on a cadre of over 300 Disaster Assistance Employees (DAEs) or "reservists" during a Presidential Disaster Declaration.
FEMA Region X administers the federal emergency preparedness, damage prevention, and response and recovery programs to Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. FEMA provides pre-disaster and post-disaster assistance to minimize the loss of life, and reduce damage and economic loss from natural and technological hazards. In both pre-disaster and post-disaster efforts, FEMA works in close partnership with State emergency management agencies.
I would say this is because of a threat usually being forgotten in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington; volcanoes (Mount St. Helens in 1980 for example).
Right now Mount Spurr is slowly awakening from its 5000 year slumber. Current activity is not related to 1953 and 1992 Crater Peak eruptions. But rather its main summit dome.
ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY WEEKLY UPDATE Friday, August 13, 2004 3:50 PM ADT (2350 UTC) ALASKA VOLCANOES MOUNT SPURR VOLCANO (CAVW#1103-04) 61°18' N 152°15' W, Summit Elevation 11,070 ft (3,374 m) Current Level of Concern Color Code: YELLOW Elevated levels of seismicity continue to be recorded at Mt. Spurr volcano. The level of activity has remained relatively constant for the last several weeks. Although this represents a notable increase over background seismicity levels, there are no indications that an eruption is imminent. Often this type of seismic activity will decline without producing an eruption. At 8:00 am ADT on Thursday, August 12, a pilot reported ash in the Hayes River valley north of Mt. Spurr. However there was no evidence of eruption in seismic data, satellite data, or subsequent pilot reports. AVO scientists visually confirmed that no ash was erupted from Mount Spurr on overflights on August 12. Steam emissions were observed and sulfur odors were noted. Mt. Spurr volcano is an ice- and snow-covered stratovolcano located on the west side of Cook Inlet. The only known historical eruptions occurred in 1953 and 1992 from the Crater Peak flank vent located 3.5 km (2 mi) south of the summit of Mt. Spurr. These eruptions were explosive, brief in duration, and produced towering columns of ash that rose up to 20 km (65,000 ft) above sea level and deposited several mm of ash on populated areas of south-central Alaska, including approximately 6 mm of ash on Anchorage in 1953. The summit of Mt. Spurr and the surrounding avalanche caldera is heavily mantled by ice and snow. The last known eruption from the summit dome of Mt. Spurr was more than 5,000 years ago. The primary hazards associated with future eruptions from the Mt. Spurr summit vent and from Crater Peak include far-traveled ash clouds, ash fall, pyroclastic flows, and lahars or mudflows that could inundate drainages all sides of the volcano, but primarily on the south and east flanks.