thank you...
Posted on 06/03/2018 8:43:58 AM PDT by EdnaMode
When a catastrophic earthquake hits California, buildings will topple and potentially hundreds could be killed.
But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a home.
Officials are grappling with where all these quake refugees would go.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 400,000 could be displaced in a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Hayward fault, which directly runs underneath cities like Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward and Fremont, said Ken Hudnut, the U.S. Geological Survey’s science advisor for risk reduction. And it’s possible that more than 250,000 people in Southern California could be forced out of their homes after a major earthquake on the San Andreas fault, Hudnut said.
Not everyone will need to stay in public shelters — many will stay with relatives, friends and hotels. Still, more than 175,000 people may have no other choice than stay at a public shelter in Southern California, which could be could be challenged with acute shortages of food, water and medicine, according to ShakeOut, a USGS report simulating a major Southern California earthquake.
And in the Bay Area, so many buildings built under minimal codes could be so damaged many may be forced to move away “for at least several months, and possibly permanently” due to the region’s housing shortage, according to a separate USGS report on a hypothetical Northern California earthquake, called HayWired.
“So many people will be displaced they won’t be able to stay within the metro area,” Keith Porter, a University of Colorado Boulder professor and chief engineer of the USGS earthquake reports, said of a major Bay Area earthquake. “So they’ll move away, just like they moved away from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.”
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Yep.
But a really big one in the LA area could easily lead to a million or many more refugees. The government-dependent bad characters would scatter to states with the best welfare or to those with the best criminal opportunities.
I would. But they’re not flaming liberals.
Canada, Mexico, or just get on a boat and head to wherever. Leftist Californians have already ruined too many previously good states.
Right wing Californians are welcome anywhere in the USA.
Zuckerbergs acreage in Kauai could handle thousands. They could use his bathrooms.
The cost of recovery from a significant earthquake in Los Angeles or San Francisco creating a million refugees could exceed a trillion dollars. California and the progressive left will demand the federal government assume the cost. This might be the tipping point forcing the federal government into bankruptcy. If a Democrat government is in power at the time, there will certainly be huge increases in taxes.
thank you...
Yep, back to Mexico
Back to whatever Sewer they crawled out of.
+1. Great minds and all.
Don't fall for the ruse. Its just a tactic so as not to trigger the normies.
No, because they aren’t criminals.
They can even have color TVs and evaporative coolers.
... but they’ll have to buy their own underwear.
Good thinking. I’d bet his big mansion could hold at least a thousand illegals. And the pool could serve as an emergency toilet. Gotta be diverse and tolerant and COEXIST.
But... won't it capsize?
Except the US paid Mexico for all those territories including Texas which they conveniently forget.
My first thought.....and put ICE on all CA borders to keep them there...Moonbeam can chant an incantation to Gaia or something...
A couple of hand grenades would break up that little fiesta.
They can risk it. Lol
No housing available in Idaho. Try Portland or Seattle.
I hear there is some very affordable land near the Lelani Estates neighborhood. Once the new eruptions stop and the lava cools, that is.
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