Posted on 01/20/2016 11:15:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
As military helicopters ferry search and rescue teams over the Pacific Northwest, below them are scenes of devastation from a giant earthquake that could strike the region at any time.
Tsunami waters surge through coastal communities. Buildings, bridges and roads lie in ruins. Fires burn out of control. Survivors are stranded on rooftops, cling to floating debris or are trapped inside wrecked buildings.
Seismologists say a full rupture of a 650-mile-long offshore fault running from Northern California to British Columbia and an ensuing tsunami could come in our lifetime, and emergency management officials are busy preparing for the worst.
Federal, state and military officials have been working together to draft plans to be followed when the "Big One" happens. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
Tsunamis. Nasty things — and people in any areas which might have one have to be ready for them.
“Come Lord Jesus” nicely covers death and destruction on Americans also FWIW....and next time He comes, it will be to wage war....white horse/sword and all that.
No, but at least I know a scenario is.
“I still don’t like waiting under a freeway overpass for a red light...”
A few minutes after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake (7.1) I found myself in exactly that situation. Rushing home with my kids, I got stuck in a line of traffic trying to cross under an overpass.
Looking up, I saw the traffic on top was also stopped. People were out of their cars, yelling and pointing to my right, at something going on in traffic ahead of them. They were also apparently trying to get the cars behind them to back up.
I looked to my right to see what they were pointing at, following the trajectory of the overpass, and I could not believe what I was seeing.
The 880 freeway, about two blocks further on, had collapsed into a rubble sandwich.
The portion of overpass with traffic jammed and panicked people trying to get traffic to back up, was now threatening to topple in domino fashion.
And I was under it.
Some folks, over and under, continued honking and trying to get traffic to back up. Not me.
I jumped curbs, drove on wrong side of street, U turned, got stuck among other drivers doing the same thing. Then grabbed the kids out the car and RAN.
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