Michele (aka a DCI in another life)
@socmedgirl
Community leader. Tea drinker☕. Comms specialist. Writer✍. Champion for civic participation to building healthy/strong/welcoming communities. Vera/Ash/Sandra fan🕵🏼♀️. Digri fan🎶. Tired.😴
No wonder #yyjbiz want out of downtown #yyj. I agree with them - it's insane, ticketing a business owner who's having to deal with this?! Stop blaming govt employees who wfh for a declining d/t. It's this backwards world/clown world that drives ppl out. No common sense. @timescolonist.bsky.social
Very impressed with the safety measures implemented by Facility Manager Jenn & staff at #SaanichCommonwealth for an incident there. Pylons, highviz vests, blockades, + staff to redirect patrons around a vehicle crash in driveway = ensuring safety of all. Well done! #Saanich @saanichbc.bsky.social
M4.3 near #PortAlice. Tsunami NOT expected. 🤲🙏 #BedtimeWakeUpShakeUp
That is some thunder that just rumbled overhead #Saanichton. Shook the one-storey building I'm in! ⚡ As a sky watcher, this is a great afternoon! 😁 #CSaan
Lightning strikes off Victoria waterfront in last 15mins.
🚨 #AmberAlert All of BC. #Kelowna Scared the heck out of me when it went off. Thankfully I was already awake.
⚠️ #AmberAlert for 6yr old child includes #Strathcona on Vancouver Island. #StrathconaRegionalDistrict via @alertable.bsky.social
M3.8 #earthquake near #OakHarbour, ESE of #yyj. Via @alertable.bsky.social. #preparedness
Traffic advisory for #Esquimalt. Via #VoyentAlert. #yyjtraffic
ICYMI: #Saanich statement on incident at #CedarHill Golf. Excellent work/response by @saanichpolice.bsky.social and @saanichfire.bsky.social. 👏
UPDATE: Gas shut off in area, but #CriticalAlert and #ShelterInPlace still in effect. #Langford #yyjtraffic
A #CriticalAlert #ShelterInPlace has been issued for #Langford, due to an evolving incident involving a gas leak. #yyjtraffic
The shelter in place order has now been cancelled for #NorthPark area in #yyj. Via AlertableCanada.
Tonight's #CSaan Council meeting should be "interesting" - they'll vote on the #CivicRedevelopment scheme after the March09 fiery & contentious PublicHearing. 🎇🔥🎆 Community consensus seems to indicate Council's plan is deeply unpopular, but they're forging ahead anyway. #MuniPoli #yyjpoli
I love the idea of @cheknews.ca's #WeatherSchool with Tess van Straaten - it's not learning only for school children, but for viewers as well! #yyjwx #CHEKWeatherSchool
Deliberately turned down his radio to ignore a distress call.🤯 "...the captain argued that coast guard vessels must be formally tasked before responding to distress calls." Akin to FFs ignoring a fire in front of them, or police driving past a crime because they weren't "tasked"/dispatched to it.
An at-times raucous Council meeting/ #PublicHearing in #CSaan last night, made for an interesting evening. One speaker questioned if the high number of redacted documents over the Municipality's civic redevelopment scheme was "our own Epstein files". 😲 #yyjpoli #MuniPoli
Moon over Middleton Plaza tonight. A few hours to go before the total lunar eclipse! #skywatcher #Saanich
Heads up! Via @alertable.bsky.social: A #BCStorm #windstorm is incoming to Greater #yyj. #yyjwx 🌬️
Hmmmm... 🤔 Wonder who these musicians are? They performed on "America The Beautiful", yet no acknowledgement or names. Julian and Brandi got announced, but not these women. The 2026 #SuperBowl. The NFL, in 2026. 🙄🤦🏼♀️
Keeping some friends and colleagues in my thoughts right now. Sometimes true #leadership means making incredibly difficult decisions. That will likely cause criticism. But when you know the backstory, the only course of action is to stand by your values and ethics. 💙🫂
That's a wrap on emergency planning exercise #ERTEX (slightly delayed from 2025). Can confirm our province has good people in place, as far as #EmergencyComms is concerned.👍 #EMBC #EMCR @kellyrichmondbc.bsky.social Apparently twas a nice day, but we couldn't see daylight in the bunker!😉
Yes, I will watch some, but I'll be watching far more #Paralympics! 😁👍 📣Go Team #Canada!👏 @cheknews.ca
🚨 CRITICAL ALERT just broadcast by #AlertableCanada: Emergency Management #Cowichan has issued #Evacuation Order for area of ChemainusRd, SwallowfieldRd,& CroftonRd due to risk of imminent flooding from Chemainus River. Leave the designated area immediately. #Westholme #Crofton #Chemainus