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Date: 2020-02-09 12:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] siliconshaman
I get the impression that, unless it happens 10 to 20 years from now, you can pretty much write the PNW off. Zero salvageable infrastructure and a death toll that adds up to a sizable percentage of the population with little to no chance of recovery economically or socially for decades, if at all.

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Date: 2020-02-09 02:49 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dewline
It'll scar the North American nations - Settler and Indigenous - for the next century at minimum, barring a series of miracles. As badly as the Trump Regime has done, or worse.

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Date: 2020-02-09 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hmm yeah.. they're both a disaster of about the same magnitude.

Although, if it happens anytime soon, given how fragile America is right now, it'll shatter the country I suspect. I mean, it would be hard to cope with that level of destruction and displacement of people at the best of times. The way things stand now, with the Spray-tan Don at the helm, I'd expect the rescue services and the economy to be very quickly overwhelmed, and Washington D.C to essentially abandon the West coast to their fate, with little or no help, the same as they did to Puerto Rico.

I'd imagine that wouldn't go down well, might be the final straw that breaks the camels back, or rather, the Union.

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Date: 2020-02-09 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] fianna9
>> But there's nothing to be done about it. You can't raise crops in a disaster area, especially with the waterlines all cut. If people expended maximum effort, they might save some of the perennials like grapevines and almond trees, but everything else is a total loss.

Given how much water and care almond trees require I'd write them off. They really shouldn't be grown in that part of California.

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Date: 2020-02-11 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] fianna9
I actually meant that I don't think the infrastructure will survive to maintain them. They are already part of the water crisis going on.

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Date: 2020-02-09 03:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mdlbear
See also, Full-Rip 9.0.

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Date: 2020-02-09 07:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] erulisse
I find it interesting (and promising) that a number of places along the coast seem to be working on or planning vertical evacuation solutions. I like this solution personally https://www.opb.org/news/article/tsunami-washington-long-beach-safe/ (it seems likely to be relatively easy to build and the flat space on top could also be used for civic functions or other things) but other places are using existing hills or building civic buildings/schools that are reinforced and have vertical evacuation space on top. While it's not a complete solution by any means, it does seem like one good place to start tackling what probably looks to many people like an impossible problem.

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Date: 2020-02-10 01:29 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kengr
I'll almost certainly be one of the casualties. I could muddle thru for a while on food. Water might be a problem. and I can handle many of my meds.

What will kill *me* will be the loss of power. I've got sleep apnea. so if the power goes, I don't sleep. I may pass out for varying periods, but I won't get any *rest*.

In at most, a few weeks, I'll be useless to myself or anybody else.

So unless I could miraculously get evacuated, I won't make it.

And I'm far from alone in having lack of power be a killer. Unlike some things, you can't really stockpile power. Solar cells would be about the only possibility, but even the small amount of power I'd need is horribly expensive. :-(

Still I can survive a lot of *other* disasters ok.

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