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To: nickcarraway
Phelps said he recommends having an emergency preparedness kit ready with 2 weeks worth of supplies.

Liberal Preppers....oh the irony.

6 posted on 07/17/2015 3:17:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Well, two weeks is better than nothing I guess. Maybe a better plan would be to every month for the next year you add a week’s worth of supplies to the preps.

“The New Yorker’s article also cites an Oregon safety policy group that estimates it could take up to 3 months after the quake to restore electricity. It could take another 6 months to fix major highways in the region and a year for sewer services to get back up to speed.”

6 months? Major highways? That means supplies will still be distributed 6 months later.

Seattle - Portland - Vancouver, B.C. used to have a mutual aid response thing going on. Until they learned of the Cascadia Fault which could devastate all three cities. Now Seattle will be served from the east. There is a large airfield used by Boeing at Moses Lake, about a three hour drive from Seattle. The mountain pass highways would probably be knocked out. So the plan is to fly supplies into Moses Lake, and then helicopter them to Seattle.

There might be an option of driving supplies two hours west of Moses lake and then using the choppers.

Anyway - two weeks supplies is not enough. Heck - many years ago a heavy snow/ice storm knocked out the power and the gas and stores for 10 days where I lived (Seattle suburb). Granted, the water still ran and the natural gas (water heater) still worked thank goodness.


7 posted on 07/17/2015 3:29:37 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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