Hikermor

The LACK of awareness in LA is stupendous.
I just had a conversation a couple of days ago with a young lady (with an advanced education). I pointed out to her the DIRE necessity to have enough water for a couple of weeks, and an ample pile of granola bars and cans of tuna fish. Nothing exotic. The bare bones necessities. Fortunately, she did get the point.

But the last time I did a survey of my building (I work in LA), FEW people had enough water for more than 2-days consumption. This LACK of preparedness is inexcusable. But it is real and very common in Los Angeles. There is going to be a lot of suffering when a good sized quake comes along. IF we are lucky, we will get a mag 6-7 quake in the LA area. That will do enough damage that people will be shocked into readiness again.

Some cities near LA have got NO CHANCE when the Big One hits. The whole Palm Springs area will be toast. The same thing goes for Desert Hot Springs, Banning, Beaumont, the Morongo Casino, Phelan, Pearblossom, LittleRock, Palmdale, Lake Hughes, and Frazier Park. All these places will be complete write-offs after the Big One hits - they are sitting almost directly on the fault line. In the "old days" there were not many people out there. But now, the bedroom communities have had an exploding population because of real estate prices.

People should never have been allowed to build in these places. But what can you say ... GREED rules!

Pete