Oh course I would not include Calif. freepers. I would assume that they would know how to survive and or get out of Dodge when the big one comes.
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When the big earthquake hits San Francisco, you will see just as many numb, dumb, confused looks on people’s faces as you saw with Katrina. They statement of the day will be, “I didn’t know that was going to happen. If I knew that was going to happen I NEVER would have lived here”.
It is pure denial, nothing else. I spent most of the last 12 years in San Francisco because I could not resist the urge, as a Caltrans engineer, to work on the area’s new bridges. I feel this is a golden age of bridge building for us, and I had to be a part of it.
I lived right in San Francisco and I was constantly thinking about the next big earthquake. I never felt comfortable living in San Francisco and knowing that local Armageddon could strike at any time without warning.
I used to sit in traffic jams on the Bay Bridge and think, if the quake hit right this instant, should I stay in my car, try to drive off if possible, or just run along the sidewalk and stand at one of the towers, which would be the safest place if any pieces of the deck broke free or if a cable broke (neither prospects likely, of course).
I am NOT looking forward to the big earthquake and I pray it does not come in my lifetime. I know too many people there to want to see them suffer through the aftermath.
At the same time, they live there by choice and have accepted the risk, even as they deny the risk or pretend it can’t happen. By being there, they have accepted the risk.
This I don’t want to see.