START PREPARING FOR AN SF QUAKE NOW!!!

I know I said I wanted to take things apart before offering any suggestions, but I had to sound the alarm before anyone else did.

This from Slate: “A FEMA study in early 2001 pegged a hurricane in New Orleans as one of the three biggest catastrophes that might strike the United States (the others were an earthquake in San Francisco and a terrorist attack in New York).” [emphasis mine]

Look, a terrorist attack in New York… check. Hurricane in New Orleans… check. Earthquake in San Francisco… oh pish posh, that’ll never happen. “It’s not a question of if but when” is the same thing they say about a meteor; it’s a bunch of alarmist rubbish. *ahem* Don’t let the fucking mythocrats tell you otherwise. We need to start preparing now.

We need a comprehensive disaster relief plan. If our water system is destroyed in an earthquake, how are we going to put out fires? If our highways are destroyed, how can we evacuate people? What happens if our bridges fail? What will happen to oil prices? San Francisco is an important port, just like New Orleans; what will happen to the economy? If our cops can’t keep order, how will we get the military in? We need a Plan B if Plan A fails. We need Plan C’s and Plan D’s, and so forth.

We need to urge Mayor Newsom to start launching an investigation NOW. If you want thousands of lives to be saved, we need to start planning NOW.

The federal level stuff, now that’s the stuff I need to pick apart before I can issue suggestions.

This city planning needs to be done NOW. We need some type of letter campaign.