[SmithL]

Nobody is sufficiently prepared for when the New Madrid goes again.

[dirtboy]

Nobody is sufficiently prepared for when the New Madrid goes again.

Yeah, but you can be prepared to hold your own until outside help reaches you.

After all, an earthquake doesn't give you 48 hours of warning that it's coming.

[Nov3]

NO one can be prepared but King Willie definitely is watching Nagin. The Belzs and Folgelmans would order King Wille to do the same thing. The "redevelopment" would no doubt be funded out of my and others pockets. Of course everybody's gun would have to be seized.

My wife and I are developing a bugout plan.

[cpanter]

Maybe this is what Bredeson has been doing the last couple of days? Designing a tent city. His press sec. said she couldn't even contact him right now.

Oh wait. Now I remember, he never gave his position on the 1/2 cent sales tax increase and some meida folks were trying to find him to get his position. Hmmm... His press sec said she couldn't even get him on the phone. I'd hate to see what would happen if there was an earthquake.

[George W. Bush]

Hopefully, the Blanco Massacre will cause the other governors to take their responsibilities in disaster response far more seriously.

I expect we'll see a lot of worst-case scenarios enacted as dry-run tests of states' emergency response.

[Verginius Rufus]

This creates a quandary. What should we spend our time worrying about--the New Madrid fault having a major earthquake, Yellowstone NP suddenly erupting as a super-volcano, or an asteroid hitting the earth?

[MplsSteve]

I agree.

The devastation that a New Madrid-style earthquake could do would be felt far beyond the Mississippi Valley.

I believe I once read that the force of the quake caused church bells in Boston to ring. Maybe it was an old wives tale - but I recall that's what I had read.