View Full Version : How Prepared Is Califonia For Disaster
Recent Events have got me thinking.
How Prepared is Califonia for the next Big Earthquake?
It's not a question of if but when.
I've seen so many homes built upon swamp land or near it in Watsonville, I've noticed several smaller quakes over the past several years here in northren Califonia. The Bay Area has also expanded as has my home town. I can remember when downtown Santa Cruz was devistated by Loma Preita in 1989 and it's almost been twenty years since then and a hundred since the great San Fransico quake. It's been nearly ten since Northridge.
What do you think?
Samurai
09-03-2005, 05:13 PM
Like NO, it is prepared for a disaster of up to a certain size, because that's all the limited funds will allow. If a sufficiently large earthquake hits ("The Big One"), it'll all come down...
That's what I'm afraid of as well. We have such limited funding to something that happens often in this state it both scares and saddens me. Or maybe I should stop thinking about this and live each day for what it is.
Charles RB
09-03-2005, 05:28 PM
If a sufficiently large earthquake hits ("The Big One"), it'll all come down...
I'd hope they have schemes in place for if/when there is a Big One in regards to getting survivors out though.
I'd hope they have schemes in place for if/when there is a Big One in regards to getting survivors out though.
I really don't think that we really do in the state of Califonia. they drill people in Japan but not so here, and swamp land has a tendancy to turn to quick sand during a quake. I've also noticed homes built upon the edges of cliffs which in a quake fall, plus I live only a few miles from the San Andreas Fault and I remember when I was in high school we had a drill and no one ducked they laughed and I didn't find it funny in the least bit.
Samurai and also every other northern Califonia poster as as southern I think we will survive hopfully a big one which I fear will happen within our lifetime.
Tish-the-Scorpion
09-03-2005, 05:44 PM
hell no wich is why i live part time in georgia
Night
09-03-2005, 05:54 PM
I'll depend on the kind of disaster and the specifics. One of the problems with the N.O. disaster is that it is on a scope unheard of in the US and also one that was changing days after the original event. If we have to completly evacuate one or more of the major cites... CA's toast. I think we'll learn alot, but every one seems to be different with different challenges.
Motormouse
09-03-2005, 05:56 PM
Like NO, it is prepared for a disaster of up to a certain size, because that's all the limited funds will allow. If a sufficiently large earthquake hits ("The Big One"), it'll all come down...
I thought that when "The Big One" hits, California is ment to slide into the pacific, Atlantis style. No amount of prep is gonna help against that. It's almost as bad as those idiots who live in beautiful idilic leafy villages........just below an active volcano! :eek:
Samurai
09-03-2005, 06:00 PM
The major CA faults travel all the way up southern CA and then head out to sea around San Fransisco, so far northern CA, where I live, should be just fine...
Well that's good you live in the valley while I'm on the coast. But Concord will be disaster.
nubly
09-03-2005, 06:19 PM
hell no wich is why i live part time in georgia
dude what will living in GA partime do when a quake hits LA when youre there
Destroyerwod
09-03-2005, 09:15 PM
personally i live in an area that never got any major disaster(no tornado, hurricane or earth quake) i personally would never be able to live where i know i could loose everything i have... I mean im not afraid of the disaster itself, men i would even like to see a tornado close :cool: , what i am afraid of is to lost my personal things , this is why nothing would be enought to me to live in a potential area for disaster, like near a volcano like you said or where they are lot of tornado etc, even if they offer me a 500 000$ house free. I would go with no probleme in a risky zone, if its for vacation only, where i know the only thing i have to care to save is my own ass.
As for me like the people in N.O. I love my home and wouldn't really trade it anything, My family is here, I grew up here it is my home. I've spent my life here. The loss of property does not upset me because they are only things and things can be replaced but life can't. That is what I'm afraid of the loss of life and livelyhood.
mattbib
09-03-2005, 11:06 PM
Apparently that's the price you pay to live in a coastal area: the threat of natural disaster. Even here in Delaware we have the thread of hurricanes, though much rarer and of less magnitude than usually hits elsewhere. But it takes just the right mix of events, and WHAM, we're gone. I don't think any amount of prepration will be able to negate the possibility of major destruction. Heck, even moving inland just changes the threats to tornados or whatever else is out there.
Destroyerwod
09-04-2005, 12:36 AM
some things can`t be replaced, such as pictures of your whole life, my hockey cards collection that i could never found again, some i have them since im like 7 years old... and even if i could found them again...watch out the bill...
That just exemple, i don`t really care for exemple if my tv or my sound system get stole or else, they insure so i could have them replace , but there the more personal things that can`t. Im not afraid of getting stuck in a disaster, actually i think if i where on vacation i would keep being close to it and help before trying to get out, what i fear the most is the loss of my home. One time there where fire at the neiboorg appartement, smoke got into my room and all and i was so afraid of loosing my properties, i get my hockey cards and pictures and memory cards out, in case, but i was shaking all over because i feared that fire get into my room etc. Finally only smoke get there, but they had to check the roof and they make a hole in my room, and it fall over my cd and i was so much upset i nearly punch one of the guys, when it come to my things, its don`t touch.
Dan Apodaca
09-04-2005, 05:08 AM
My guess is that we're nowhere near as prepared as we should or could be.
But I also have a feeling that if we getas destructive an earthquake as has been predicted, there won't be much we can do to make a difference.
I bet it'll be an amazing visual.
Headhunter
09-04-2005, 06:46 AM
Nowhere near where it should be, and it'll probably never get better.
I've always been amazed how casual Californians are, living on a piece of land that will probably rip itself away from the rest of the continent... :eek:
My guess is that we're nowhere near as prepared as we should or could be.
But I also have a feeling that if we getas destructive an earthquake as has been predicted, there won't be much we can do to make a difference.
I bet it'll be an amazing visual.
It would be sadly :(
Flawless P
09-04-2005, 01:40 PM
I live in the valley and from what i can tell we arnt, not in the slightest.
Dan Apodaca
09-04-2005, 01:52 PM
Nowhere near where it should be, and it'll probably never get better.
I've always been amazed how casual Californians are, living on a piece of land that will probably rip itself away from the rest of the continent... :eek:
Well, what are you gonna do? I mean, maybe this is just my presonal standpoint (since I don't believe in an afterlife), but if it happens, then it happens. If I die, I die. No big deal.
However, if it does happen and I survive, I hope I'll have the courage to help anybody I can.
Besides, what are we gonna do? Jump over to Nevada when California starts sinking? It's not like we can just hop the gap as it's splitting.
Dan Apodaca
09-04-2005, 01:52 PM
I feel sorry for the people who are stuck in traffic when the earthquake hits. That would suck.
Fabian
09-04-2005, 03:57 PM
I feel sorry for the people who are stuck in traffic when the earthquake hits. That would suck.
Imagine the traffic that would occur when people need to evacuate. There's only so many roads that take you to Nevada and Arizona and if one of them affected, traffic will be horrendous.
I think our freeways would be most affected, especially the older ones that need renovation like parts of the 5. We wouldn't be able to get much supplies in or help for some time unless it's flown in.
We woul also rebuild, it's not like we have a lot of landmarks
nubly
09-04-2005, 04:01 PM
I think our freeways would be most affected, especially the older ones that need renovation like parts of the 5. We wouldn't be able to get much supplies in or help for some time unless it's flown in.
and if it happens during bush's term, you know he'll get blamed for it
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