The Big One

[ysabetwordsmith]

 I found another interesting article about The Big One.

Comments

[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.

[mdlbear]

See also, Full-Rip 9.0.

[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.

[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.