It may be time to look at bug out plans for the CA folks.

[YogiBear]

Aloha,

If California goes, the mile high Plus Tsunami will wash over all of Hawaii.

Hawaii will only be a couple of lumps in the Pacific.

We hope to be in Texas Hill Country when it happens.

 

[bushmaster1313]

There is a 100% correlation between global climate change and the lack of major seismic action along thd San Andreas fault.

Ergo, limiting our carbon footprint would lead directly to a major earthquake in Southern California.

Don't doubt me. I took a statistics class in graduate school and I know my stuff.

 

[colkid]

Yogi In Hill Country, if the U.S. gets anymore crazy I will be down there.
Save me a barbecued steak.
I will come with my own guns and ammo, but I am usually buying more.

 

[Jessie]

I didn't think something like "Prepping" was even allowed in California.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Would anyone really miss California if it fell off in the ocean lock stock and barrel?

I've lived in different parts of America. There are few places I consider as great as the Bay Area where I grew up.

A great deal of my misspent youth was riding bikes and partying on Mt Diablo, or boating, fishing and skiing. Within hours you're at the most beautiful coastline on Earth, the Redwoods up north or Sierras to the east.

I understand there's been great change over the years, and not for the best. Regardless, that part of the country is still like paradise.

 

[Absalom]

When the big one happens up here in the Pacific NW, a full-fracture 9.2 to 9.5 Cascadia Subduction blow-out, I'll probably die. And it will happen. We're 316 years into a 243-year cycle. The plates are moving, the pressure is building, and when it pops, the whole region will drop six feet and move a hundred feet back to the West in about four minutes of shaking. Because of inertia, most buildings, roads, and bridges won't move as fast; the result will be obvious. That's not some predictive model, but simple physics.

I'm old enough to take my chances. At least until it happens, I'm safe here from all the stuff that threatens people in "safe" areas of America every year. No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no Mississippi washing my trailer away, no blizzards consisting of more than a few snowflakes, very few presidential candidates .....

 

[chaparrito]

The complacency of Californios in this regard has always baffled me. They build their houses on wildfire burnt hillsides and then wail and beat their chests when the mudslides come. No wonder they're so hedonistic. Every single day could quite literally be their last.

 

[RobertJ.]

I live with a view of the Pacific, and I don't spend much time worrying about it!

Yes, we know it's going to happen. Most here (I would hope) have a plan for when it does. I have a tsunami grab-and-go bag in my house, and one in my car. Not that those will be of much help in the event of a really big one.

You could spend your time worrying about it, and then get hit by a truck tomorrow!

 

[wbraswell]

There are people who left the Arklatex because of tornadoes, and moved to California. There are more major hurricanes hit the gulf coast than major quakes in CA. Not many folks giving up their beach houses down there. Like is full of risks, that's why it's called living.

 

[bushmaster1313]

You need to think of priorities first. The most important component of your grab and go bag is a bottle opener.

This is because, after the Big One hits, it will be near impossible to find cold beer in screw top glass bottles.

 

[Bkreutz]

When the big one happens up here in the Pacific NW, a full-fracture 9.2 to 9.5 Cascadia Subduction blow-out, I'll probably die. And it will happen. We're 316 years into a 243-year cycle. The plates are moving, the pressure is building, and when it pops, the whole region will drop six feet and move a hundred feet back to the West in about four minutes of shaking. Because of inertia, most buildings, roads, and bridges won't move as fast; the result will be obvious. That's not some predictive model, but simple physics.

I'm old enough to take my chances. At least until it happens, I'm safe here from all the stuff that threatens people in "safe" areas of America every year. No hurricanes, no tornadoes, no Mississippi washing my trailer away, no blizzards consisting of more than a few snowflakes, very few presidential candidates .....

I'm of the same mind, but added to the earthquake and tsunami factors is the volcanic one. I figure if any of them (or combination) I couldn't get away from here fast enough (think Seattle traffic). so I figure I'll just bend over and kiss my ..... (you get the idea). I've lived (for short periods of time) in parts of the country where tornadoes, hurricanes, triple digit heat, and 6 month snow season, you can have that. I do have to agree that some of the best scenery in the world is in CA, too bad they had to ruin it with a population.

 

[JayC_783]

With the powder keg of fault lines that Japan sits on, and California waiting for its "big one," I picture Japan and California meeting each other someday somewhere in the middle of the Pacific. They'll be like, "Howdy." "Konnichiwa."

 

[JJEH]

So....where do we bug out to?

The S&W Forum HQ. It's a humongous, partial under-, partial above ground structure with everything mankind can desire... housing, clean air, clean food, comfort, electricity, several bathrooms, massage parlors, barber shops, bars, arcades, casinos, walk-in gun vault... you name it, the big Gorilla and his posse have it

 

[Ron M.]

I've lived in different parts of America. There are few places I consider as great as the Bay Area where I grew up.

A great deal of my misspent youth was riding bikes and partying on Mt Diablo, or boating, fishing and skiing. Within hours you're at the most beautiful coastline on Earth, the Redwoods up north or Sierras to the east.

I understand there's been great change over the years, and not for the best. Regardless, that part of the country is still like paradise.

I live in Paradise, CA, at 1500 feet elevation. Agree that CA has some of the most beautiful scenery once you clear the big cities. Kids remained in the SF Bay Area...lived through the 1989 shaker in San Jose, didn't even knock the dust off the old 36 inch Trinitron television, though some parts of the state, like Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, got whacked pretty good. I remember the tsunami that hit the Santa Cruz harbor a few years back, many knew it was coming, but left their boats docked. Many went down into the drink. Ya can't fix stupid.

 

[BearBio]

When the Northridge Quake hit, we were camping on a friend's ranch in Parkfield, literally yards from the San Andreas. Never felt a thing. He came down for a cup of coffee and told us my brother had called looking for us. We called and were the last ones to check in. Local (Central Valley Radio) news had L.A. in flames, rioting, etc. We loaded up our guns and headed home via Bakersfield, Mojave, Sam Bernardino. As we went across the San Gabriel Valley, people were out playing golf, traffic was normal. Only damage in our apartment (near the Rose Bowl) was one of my elk heads fell and cracked the nose.

Living 50 years in SoCal before moving to the NW (where we still have earthquakes AND volcanoes), I don't worry. (ps: I started grad school at Cal State Northridge the next year).

You wanna worry: If Rainier goes like St Helens did, they estimate Seattle has 20 minutes to evacuate before the lahars (mud flows) hit. We have tsunami evacuation routes all over the "wet" (west) side of the mountains.

Gotta live somewhere!

 

[the ringo kid]

I remember a cartoon in magazine showing two well dressed men walking down the street passing a guy holding a sign that says:

"The world ends today."

One of the men said to the other:

"You know.... one of these days he will be right."

I'm still waiting for the earth to end because of Y2K.

 

[the ringo kid]

Aaahh, but when the prediction comes true...My co-worker on the night shift in Los Angeles during the Northridge earthquake in 94, walked out after the shaking stopped and never returned. Didn't say a word, give notice, or leave a forwarding address for his last paycheck.

Geraldo Rivera made a report about that, then collected his last paycheck. Sadly, that was the last time he made a report of serious substance.

 

[sipowicz]

I'm not to worried since I now carry an extra speed strip.

 

[model70hunter]

There is a 100% correlation between global climate change and the lack of major seismic action along thd San Andreas fault.

Ergo, limiting our carbon footprint would lead directly to a major earthquake in Southern California.

Don't doubt me. I took a statistics class in graduate school and I know my stuff.

They've taken the lead out of gas and bullets, what's the hold up?

 

[model70hunter]

I've lived in different parts of America. There are few places I consider as great as the Bay Area where I grew up.

A great deal of my misspent youth was riding bikes and partying on Mt Diablo, or boating, fishing and skiing. Within hours you're at the most beautiful coastline on Earth, the Redwoods up north or Sierras to the east.

I understand there's been great change over the years, and not for the best. Regardless, that part of the country is still like paradise.

I lived in San Jose for a year and have visited most of the places you mention. It is wonderful. Shame the politicians don't outlaw politicians.