What you need to do, what are the threats, what does everyone else think and what are they doing?

[Siglvr]

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/pbem/article/577091

This is a slow read, in order to really get the info out of it, you need to click the links. For instance, in ONE (only 1) example, P19 they ask "Have you done any of these things to make your family safer? It quickly goes from a questionnaire to a resource if you would but click the links (there are shootloads of choices to click on that need to be in effect, like "do you have flood insurance with a link - but the 3rd one, AS AN EXAMPLE, is Earthquakes:

which, if you click the links gets you this: Residential Seismic Strengthening | The City of Portland, Oregon

Which gets you ways to prep and fix, (all these are links with drawings or explanations):

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• GENERAL STRUCTURE NOTES
  
  
• Summary of Minimum Prescriptive Requirements
  
  
• Sample Plan and Note
  
  
• 2a. Cripple Wall Section - Parallel Joists
  
  
• 2b. Cripple Wall Section - Parallel Joists
  
  
• 3. Cripple Wall Section - Perpendicular Joists
  
  
• 4. Cripple Wall Bracing - Opening Reinforcement
  
  
• 5. Blocking / Framing Anchor
  
  
• 6. Sill Plate Bolting - No Cripple Wall Parallel or Perpendicular Joist
  
  
• 7. Sill Plate Bolting - Trapezoidal Footing
  
  
• 8a. Sill Plate Bolting - No Floor Joists Parallel or Perpendicular Joist
  
  
• 8b. Sill Plate Bolting – No Floor Joists Parallel or Perpendicular Joist – Exterior Application
  
  
• 9. Cripple Wall Bracing - Interior Elevation
  
  
• 10a. Anchorage for Joists Supported on Concrete Interior Application
  
  
• 10b. Anchorage for Joists Supported on Concrete Interior or Exterior Application
  
  
• 11. Cripple Wall Bracing with Plywood on Exterior Face of Cripple Studs
  
  
• 12. Single Top Plate Splice
  
  
• City of Portland Approved Products for Residential Seismic Strengthening

So link it - then drill in there and see whats what. I found it a valuable resource and of extreme interest.

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[Oathkeeper1775]

1. Make good use of the current situation with the Fed govt. policies.

2. Random acts of violence and the "I'll buy, you pay" politicians.

3. I don't know

4. I don't know

 

[HB of CJ]

Respectfully ... a bunch of reading ...

I just scanned the first page of the first link. Right now I do not know what to think. Leaning towards the notion that these types of papers pay the authors by the word ... or perhaps by the page.

Why don't they just get down to brass tacks and the meat of the concerns? When I buck up against papers like this, (and I have many times in the RN business) my eyes immediately glaze over.

Just me. Perhaps my bad. As a former general licensed contractor years ago I kinda, (actually DO) know what to do with wood frame housing on perimeter concrete foundations to tighten things up.

Again perhaps my shortcomings. Like said, a long read. Right now no time. Perhaps later? Perhaps not either. All this stuff has to complete with 6 hours of sleep daily, plus that needful nap. Yikes!

Respectfully ...