April 12-13, 2025

EXERCISE, EXERCISE

A downtown building has collapsed. Your club has been asked to do an Initial Damage Assessment / Windshield Survey for the state.

Start a new message and select Standard Templates > GENERAL Forms > Damage Assessment.

Click Setup to add your agency or group (or Iowa Winlink Weekend).
Jurisdiction: enter your city or county
Mission or Incident #: enter IWW 4-25
Leave Exercise selected
Event: select OTHER, Describe: enter Building collapse
Survey Area: enter 8th and Main, Survey Team: enter your call and at least one other
Start Date of Event: enter 2025-04-11, Date of this Survey: should autofill

CATEGORY: Enter observed damage, the minimums are indicated

• HOUSES: Affected 10 %:2, $ Loss: 8000
• APARTMENT COMPLEX: Major 50 %:1, Loss: 90000
• MOBILE HOMES: (leave empty)
• RESIDENTIAL HIGH RISE BUILDING: (leave empty)
• COMMERCIAL HIGH RISE BUILDING: Totaled 100 %:1, Loss: 290000
• PUBLIC BUILDINGS: (leave empty)
• SMALL BUSINESS: (leave empty)
• FACTORIES / INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: (leave empty)
• ROADS: Affected 10 %:1, Loss: 5000
• BRIDGES:(leave empty)
• ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION: (leave empty)
• SCHOOLS: (leave empty)
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• Total Dollar Amount: (will total automatically)

In COMMENTS:, enter your
call sign, first name, city or town, county, state, mode (Winlink HF, VARA FM, VHF packet, etc.)
2 letter state abbreviation and no parentheses, please.
Example: WB0GAG, Bruce, Muscatine, Muscatine, IA, VARA HF
Save a copy for later if you wish, review your message, then click Submit and set "Subject:" to "Iowa Winlink Weekend".