Truth be told, that article is roundly-mocked in both public & private preparedness circles in the NW. I should know.
Here’s the deal: Libs on the left coast don’t care a damned thing about the people. Look to San Francisco’s controversies following the 1906 quake for clues.
Former Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber’s girlfriend and one-time ‘first lady’ of the state was fined today for misusing her position to land lucrative ‘green’ contracts.
The hypocrisy is rather stunning: Lib regional planners (all on the public pension dole) argue that Cascadia is cyclical, yet these same geniuses deny that climate has the same cycles.
All libs care about are their public-sponsored pensions and money. The so-called ‘studies’ are pork, no different than those on ‘climate change’.
The New Yorker article contains some fair details, but it’s a work of fiction if you consider one factor:
Tohoku was very similar to that which is forecast to hit the NW. Try to find evidence of widespread shaking damage inland from what they ‘scarecast’ to be the “big one” at 9.0.
The whole thing is one bad joke, particularly-considering that more people will die in the weeks after the quake (haves & have-nots) while the left coast states who proclaim to be “studying” to “make the states safer” do absolutely NOTHING to be self-sufficient while waiting for the oft-delayed FEMA aid...
Case-in-point: I was party to a session on emergency preparedness and drinking water. The only speakers presented by the city were a private company selling stuff to boil water for emergency purposes and the local utility’s fed-sponsored water trucks (i.e., get dependent upon government via your local utility).