In before the mass disaster celebrants due to location, politics, population, etc. the entire USA west coast seems primed for a natural disaster caused by plate tectonic movements. The plate segments are "locked up" and the residents are poorly prepared. Probably unwisely, I'm not a big preper but we keep a couple weeks food, medications, camping equipment along with ammo stocked more for the geological hazards than for civil disturbances.
Quick...send a bus to get the decent folks out of California...
Hopefully, it won’t wait until after November.
Truthfully, the greatest issue is decades of teaching by our lovely government to discard any and all personal responsibility. Here’s cable, cell phones, internet, food, rent, health care, and cash, all taken from your fellow hardworking citizens and handed to you with virtually no strings attached. You can sit on your rump and all of these wonders will be delivered to your door or your debit card.
As we’ve already created one of the largest social disasters, a natural disaster would simply dislodge all these parasites who find themselves with cards that do nothing, internet that doesn’t stream in their entertainment, and cell phones which ceased to work.
Therein lies the real danger that is locked and loaded. Real disaster preparation has to start with defusing the bomb that our social experiments has created. We can handle the broken highways and roads, but without personal responsibility, the scale of the disaster will be devastating and affect a broad swath of the US as we transfer these bombs everywhere after the disaster.
There we go, let’s hate on CA.
Wish death and destruction on millions of people. Funny stuff, right.
Jim, I, and the rest of the CA Freepers thank you for your concern.
My mother lived through the 1933 Long Beach quake, and I’ve made it through the 1971 Slymar quake, the 1987 Whitter Narrows quake, and 1994 Northridge quake, as well as numerous other shakers. Hopefully I’ll make it through the next big one. If not, given the state of the world today, I won’t be missing much anyway.
Mexico here we come. So welcome us into your schools, homes and treasury.
Mexico here we come. So welcome us into your schools, homes and treasury.
Kalifornias been good to me.... hope it dont fall into the sea... apologies to Tom P.
get those FR servers out of Cali pronto!
We have been lucky. Our biggest events have hit outside major population centers or major infrastructures. I assume some day we will get smacked. Every body back home in Kansas said we were crazy for going to CA and all the quakes. I sure don’t miss the tornados.
I heard they exploded the underground blast
What they say’s gonna happen, gonna happen at last
That’s the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
So that may be, that may be, what’s gonna happen, gonna happen to me
That’s the the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
Atlantis will rise, sunset Boulevard will fall
Where the beach use to be won’t be nothin’ at all
That’s the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
So that may be, that may be, what’s gonna happen gonna happen to me
That’s the way it appears
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
They tell me the fault line runs right through here
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Earthquake ping.
Not to deminiah the SA fault, but the loaded big one is the subduction zone Cascadia Fault running of the coast fron Northern CA, Or and WA to Vancover Island. Could easily be a 9 and they have happened every couple hundred years for the last ~20,000 yrs. Last one was Jan 1700.
SA will top out in the 7s because it’s a slip fault.
I hope everyone is prepared. I know they advertise to people there to have a few weeks of water, food, etc. When I lived there I did and told everyone I know about it.
Prepping is all great, but if you are in the midst of millions of zombies you have larger problems. I kept moving further and further out from the L.A. area to make sure I had an escape path. Finally said to hell with it and completely left.
Yikes! And they just finished building the new Interstate 15 and 215 overpass merge that seems to be just over this faultline. It’s at the bottom of the Cajon Pass.
Hope they built those bridges to withstand the big one.
When the big one hits, there will be civil disturbances.
Raise your hand if you have seen “San Andreas” starring The Rock. :-)
Glad I do not live in Chile; Indonesia or Vanuatu.