If you think it's bad in San Francisco, try living in the lower mainland of British Columbia. At least you guys have a military, Coast Guard and National Guard to help out in times of disaster. Here in Canada, we've neglected our military to the point that it's almost non-existent. Our Coast Guard is hopeless and we don't have anything like a National Guard. The only significant military presence in Canada is on the other side of the Rocky Mountains, so when the big one strikes here, we are truly on our own. Oh yea, I forgot to mention that we don't have any heavy air lift capability either.

The official plan is to actually truck troops and equipment across the Rockies to provide aid to British Columbia in the event of an earth quake. Nobody mentions what will happens if there's a blizzard in the mountains when the earth quake strikes BC.

Everyone out here knows that the first troops to arrive here won't be Canadian, they'll be American.