This article keeps coming back up. I know so many people in Oregon who freaked out about this and started prepping go-bags and family emergency plans. Yet nobody really thinks about it much now. Such is human nature.
A while back on this forum I explained how I have my truck camper fully fueled, stocked with water, foo, and propane. Its electrical system is solar charged but it also has a built-in generator. It’s in this “ready mode” as an emergency shelter for my family. We don’t get much warning with an earthquake.
I was ridiculed by a few folks who seemed to suggest I was a paranoid prepper. But this article and its message have never left my mind.
The older I get, the more I get more interested in the tidal flows of information
It's both misunderstood and understood.
Ex. Given a 9 year old article, we jump from "so many people freaked out" to "nobody cares about it now." --- nobody cares is easy falsified --- but then we confirm it and attribute it to "human nature". (which much like astrology, people will fill in that gap with any time they perceived others as not-caring about something they care about it)
But, we also recognize the article is reposted and on the front page again, indicating it is novel to a large subset of people. Despite the fact it has been posted no less than 25 times.
I was in a second floor bedroom in an old creaky wooden house for the "Spring Break Quake" in Salem, Oregon in 1993. The whole house rocked back and forth and I got out of bed to see if there had been an explosion. Its spooky how people expect things of relatively low probability to just be zero. I turned on a radio and the DJ had interrupted the song to explain that an earthquake had occurred. The Willamette valley has lots of brick buildings that aren't really prepared for what's going to happen.
> Then it ticked past the sixty-second mark, making it longer than the others that week. The shaking intensified.
That last sentence struck a chord. It's crazy being in the most violent event of your life, and then it gets more intense, like it dropped a gear and floored it.
10/10 would recommend experiencing a massive quake, if it were not for the small matter of widespread destruction in your city. Of course several months and 10000 aftershocks later, they're not as much fun.
This article keeps coming back up. I know so many people in Oregon who freaked out about this and started prepping go-bags and family emergency plans. Yet nobody really thinks about it much now. Such is human nature.
A while back on this forum I explained how I have my truck camper fully fueled, stocked with water, foo, and propane. Its electrical system is solar charged but it also has a built-in generator. It’s in this “ready mode” as an emergency shelter for my family. We don’t get much warning with an earthquake.
I was ridiculed by a few folks who seemed to suggest I was a paranoid prepper. But this article and its message have never left my mind.
You might consider adding a starlink mini in your emergency kit, if not already. As terrestrial communications would be affected in the area.
The older I get, the more I get more interested in the tidal flows of information
It's both misunderstood and understood.
Ex. Given a 9 year old article, we jump from "so many people freaked out" to "nobody cares about it now." --- nobody cares is easy falsified --- but then we confirm it and attribute it to "human nature". (which much like astrology, people will fill in that gap with any time they perceived others as not-caring about something they care about it)
But, we also recognize the article is reposted and on the front page again, indicating it is novel to a large subset of people. Despite the fact it has been posted no less than 25 times.
I was in a second floor bedroom in an old creaky wooden house for the "Spring Break Quake" in Salem, Oregon in 1993. The whole house rocked back and forth and I got out of bed to see if there had been an explosion. Its spooky how people expect things of relatively low probability to just be zero. I turned on a radio and the DJ had interrupted the song to explain that an earthquake had occurred. The Willamette valley has lots of brick buildings that aren't really prepared for what's going to happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Scotts_Mills_earthquake
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160 (2015 — 275 comments)
> Then it ticked past the sixty-second mark, making it longer than the others that week. The shaking intensified.
That last sentence struck a chord. It's crazy being in the most violent event of your life, and then it gets more intense, like it dropped a gear and floored it.
10/10 would recommend experiencing a massive quake, if it were not for the small matter of widespread destruction in your city. Of course several months and 10000 aftershocks later, they're not as much fun.
Here's the FEMA estimate and plan:
https://mil.wa.gov/asset/62bc6bf87b6dc
https://archive.is/2roYZ
https://pnsn.org/blog/2015/10/30/don-t-be-scared-be-prepared...