Apparently back to Mexico is out of the question.
Posted on 06/03/2018 8:43:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
When a catastrophic earthquake hits California, buildings will topple and potentially hundreds could be killed.
But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a home.
Officials are grappling with where all these quake refugees would go.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 400,000 could be displaced in a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault, which directly runs underneath cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont, said Ken Hudnut, the U.S. Geological Survey’s science advisor for risk reduction. And it’s possible that more than 250,000 people in Southern California could be forced out of their homes after a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault, Hudnut said.
Not everyone will need to stay in public shelters — many will stay with relatives, friends and hotels. Still, more than 175,000 people may have no other choice than stay at a public shelter in Southern California, which could be could be challenged with acute shortages of food, water and medicine, according to ShakeOut, a USGS report simulating a major Southern California earthquake.
And in the Bay Area, so many buildings built under minimal codes could be so damaged many may be forced to move away “for at least several months, and possibly permanently” due to the region’s housing shortage, according to a separate USGS report on a hypothetical Northern California earthquake, called HayWired.
“So many people will be displaced they won’t be able to stay within the metro area,” Keith Porter, a University of Colorado Boulder professor and chief engineer of the USGS earthquake reports, said of a major Bay Area earthquake. “So they’ll move away, just like they moved away from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.”
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Back to Mexico?
All but the Conservatives should go to Hawaii.
Hopefully Canada or back to Mexico.
Eighty percent to Mexico and the rest to 0regon.
I figure I’ll camp on some nice properties and claim squatters rights.
California is a big state. They stay there and help rebuild. It’s easier to move in shelter, water, food, and supplies than to move out refugees.
Move in with family members elsewhere in the country?
Anyone here welcoming your California family members with open arms?
The good, decent, law abiding conservatives (the few that remain) are more than welcome at our place
Anyone else . . . The Browns, Newsome, Speaker, et al will rescue you.
After they try to rescue themselves, of course, the self serving bastards
Apparently back to Mexico is out of the question.
Reopen Arpiao’s tent jail as a refugee camp.
Beat me to it
Beat me to it
But if he needs help, send them to a sanctuary city.
Plenty of those out west....
Barring that they can live with the homeless in the tent cities of Seattle.
Ya beat me to it.
This reminds me of a scene from the hideously PC but (for me) fun to watch movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," when the new Ice Age came, and Americans had to flee south across the Rio Grande.
Just going to stay in my home.
i don’t remember the leftist fake stream media publishing this kind of hypothetical apocalyptic bullshit during the obama years ...
Homeward bound. Are there like over 5 million of them in California now? Or is that just L.A.?
Our area is full of refugees from PR. No room in this inn.
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