LOL, Sam Shepard is the actor who played Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff", an excellent movie btw!
Got with my most trusted neighbors. We had a discussion about which neighbors we can trust and who has what supplies should they not make it through the quake. Spoke with a co worker who said he will probably head to my place. When I said I may not help him out he said he would just try to take from me. I explained the lay out of my neighborhood and that I could drop him from 200 yards in three different directions it ended the discussion. Hopefully that put an end to that threat. Once again going through my get home bag. My evening commute is 25 miles of very rural road and will start reassessing alternate routes, places to rest and where I might be able to acquire supplies should I ever have to make that trip on foot.
Right up there with getting hit by a toilet seat from the ISSLet's see, I have survived flying through a hurricane, the 1972 LA Quake, numerous misunderstandings in the military, car wrecks, one volcano, one near drowning, one near freezing, various horse upsets, one knife fight, one gunfight, several wives and a jealous husband. Now where should I place tsunami on my list of worries?
I'm the EP coordinator for my facility, as such I attend a lot of the FEMA / State level EP coordination seminars, classes, etc. What I can tell you with relative certainty in taking all the FEMA / ICS classes is that if and when a large scale earthquake hits the Pacific North West, its going to be a bad scene for quite a while, years if not decades. Everyone seems to think that our infrastructure can just be....fixed after something like that.
Some people forget that in a large scale event like that, the whole western part of the states will be in need of financial, structural and medical help. Oh, you need temporary medical and lodging facilities? So does Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Salem on and on and on. You need people and equipment / resources to fix the water lines/roads/power grid? So does everyone else. Get in line.
The biggest take back I have learned is simply this, we are not prepared. All these fancy command centers and buildings we have wont mean bubblegum. Portland has a ECC that is damn near 100% self sustaining, catches/treats its own water, solar / wind power and generators etc. What good does any of that do when no one can get to it because you built it in a flood zone?
Not to sound like a doom and gloom guy, but the reality is if we did get a 10 in the area, you may as well understand you are hitting the restart button. The only problem is EVERYONE is doing it at the same time, get ready to stand in line.
For a big quake,I would guess half of downtown will be in Elliot bay.
Let's see, I have survived flying through a hurricane, the 1972 LA Quake, numerous misunderstandings in the military, car wrecks, one volcano, one near drowning, one near freezing, various horse upsets, one knife fight, one gunfight, several wives and a jealous husband. Now where should I place tsunami on my list of worries?
Hey I'm enjoying the hot springs made from the Yellowstone lava and I'm 300? 400? miles away
