Janet, thank you for this. I am NOT in any way saying we are completely ready for problems. I apologise if i sounded that way. I am well aware we have not responded to wildfires as well as we could. But, we have more resilience than others, I think. I have read the descriptions of what we will have (and it is a certainty) when we have a tsunami or earthquake on the Pacific rim. It is an ugly scenario. Thank you for this, however.
Yes, we all think it won’t happen but, of course, there is an inevitability involved. I meant resilience in that we have resources to regroup. I do Do wonder the same thing you asked: why DO people still live there or in the Colorado River basin/ so Cal with fires and less water.
This is interesting, thank you. Having experienced firsthand the rolling out of disaster response efforts following a season of widespread wildfire destruction in my part of the country two years ago, my confidence in the USA's ability to quickly address needs following a regional catastrophe like the overdue Cascadia subduction earthquake is fairly low. At a "prepare for the big one" workshop I attended a few years ago, the presenter advised that we prepare not for two or three weeks of waiting for help to arrive, and not even two or three months. The entire Pacific Northwest coastal strip of the US is likely to be destroyed, and in the sparsely populated areas it could be a year or more before practical assistance is available. I thought he was exaggerating to make a point. Now I believe it.
Janet, thank you for this. I am NOT in any way saying we are completely ready for problems. I apologise if i sounded that way. I am well aware we have not responded to wildfires as well as we could. But, we have more resilience than others, I think. I have read the descriptions of what we will have (and it is a certainty) when we have a tsunami or earthquake on the Pacific rim. It is an ugly scenario. Thank you for this, however.
The big question is: Given what we know to expect, why are any of us still living out here?!? Denial and inertia, for starters, I guess.
Yes, we all think it won’t happen but, of course, there is an inevitability involved. I meant resilience in that we have resources to regroup. I do Do wonder the same thing you asked: why DO people still live there or in the Colorado River basin/ so Cal with fires and less water.
This is interesting, thank you. Having experienced firsthand the rolling out of disaster response efforts following a season of widespread wildfire destruction in my part of the country two years ago, my confidence in the USA's ability to quickly address needs following a regional catastrophe like the overdue Cascadia subduction earthquake is fairly low. At a "prepare for the big one" workshop I attended a few years ago, the presenter advised that we prepare not for two or three weeks of waiting for help to arrive, and not even two or three months. The entire Pacific Northwest coastal strip of the US is likely to be destroyed, and in the sparsely populated areas it could be a year or more before practical assistance is available. I thought he was exaggerating to make a point. Now I believe it.