This will make an interesting thing to survive one day

chrisaloia said:
Memphis doesn't have tons of large sky scappers. I am sure some water supplies would get cut off, but what other kinds of castatrophic things can we expect? .
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A "Mad Max" scenario from the population, especially before the National Guard arrives.
 
johnny reb said:
In California we are always waiting for "The Big One". Every time I see a major earthquake in some part of the world, I rush around and make sure the shelves in the pantry are all stocked, we have plenty of candles, and camp stove fuel, ammo, Then sit back and wait. Am I paranoid? Maybe.
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Can't be too paranoid about "The Big One".
Especially since, in geological terms,we are fucking overdue for it!
 
I believe the reaction of the population would be as varied as the people affected. What would happen in Chicago would be different than in Memphis. And the reactions in Jackson Tennesee would be different than Saint Louis. The vast majority of the area affected is still mostly rural and small town farming communities. Bocephus was right. Country boys will survive.

The main North - South supply corridor is the Interstate highway which follows the West Bank of the Missisippi. It would be toast. As would navigation on the Missisippi River for quite some time. Just clearing the debris from the highway and railroad bridges would take the efforts of the Navy and Coast Guard working continuously for quite a while. Quite a few major international airports would be closed to all but short field military type aircraft for a few years.

I grew up right on the New Madrid Fault and earthquakes were a fact of life. National Guard? There aren't enough of them to control the Missisippi River Basin. FEMA? Homeland Security? Well, I'm sure they've had some sort of a plan in place for many years, but just imagine New Orleans time a thousand. Ten thousand. When? It does not shake on any predictable schedule. I understand that the next big quake will make the 1811/12 quake look minor in intensity.

http://www.showme.net/~fkeller/quake/maps.htm

Codger

PS- if you never heard of this before and think I and others are crying wolf, check this out:

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Maps/90-36.html

Almost 30 quakes of 1.0 or greater in the last 30 days. Had one today, in fact. 109 in the past six months.
 
Very informative stuff there, Codger.

Do you have any activity maps for MN, WI, ND, SD?
 
I'm quite glad to have finally moved out of Los Angeles a year ago. I used to live right on the top of the Puente Hills fault line, an active and overdue fault line.

I'm now in San Diego, away from any high-risk earthquake faults, but I still have to worry about earthquakes, because it's probably the first major city LA will flee for refuge when the Big One occurs.

When preparing for disasters, you also have to look at the cities around you. Refugee influx and subsequent civil unrest is quite a disaster on its own.
 
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