Originally Posted By: Pete
I've got mixed feelings. One part of me says ... "let's get this thing over and done with". Another part says ... "You know that L. A. is not even remotely ready for the real thing". They aren't.

I'm not sure if there's an anniversary this week (not 1906, that's in April IIRC) but I've seen three different TV episodes on California earthquakes this week. All of them equally depressing, whether it's about a major quake in LA, in the the San Francisco Bay Area, or even in the Sacramento area.

Funny, there were two different Sacramento disaster episodes I saw this week--first an earthquake that breaches the levee system in the delta, flooding the city, farmland, and cutting off central and southern California from the California Aquaduct. The other one was also about the levee system there, but this time, it's just an unusually wet winter that eventually overtops or washes away the levees.

From what one of the shows mentioned, FEMA ranks Sacramento as the second most catastrophic urban flooding scenario after New Orleans. Well, we know the NOLA prediction came true...