I’ll take my chances with the ‘quakes.
You get no warning, but all that means is you don’t spend days and days anxiously watching updates to a storm track on the weather channel, and wondering how bad it’s gonna get.
With the shakers it’s just — BAM!! You rock and roll for a minute or two; stuff falls down, other stuff breaks, and then it’s over, and you’re either dead, or you’re not.
Our biggest problem with disasters here in California, is that the gun laws have made this place a Paradise for post-disaster looters.
You won’t see much of that in Texas; folks down there know that looting is a great way to get shot dead.
Not so California.
Looters out here get props from the Libs for “stickin’ it to da man.” They make folk heroes out of ‘em.
Central Utah was where I grew up, so I am familiar with quakes. We have them here (Vegas) and I’ve lived through several of them in CA. Thankfully, I moved back to Vegas six months before the Northridge quake, or I probably would have been killed. Most of the fatalities from building collapse took place in the apartment complex across the street from CSUN...the epicenter.
The entire apartment complex collapsed on itself.
And there is something wrong with cowards in the government who don’t want us to protect our homes. I lived through the Rodney King Riots, too, but I had a .357 revolver as an equalizer. And I was in the Crenshaw District.