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The Big One could leave 250,000-400,000 quake refugees in California. Where will they go?
L A Times ^ | Jun 03, 2018 | 6:00 AM | Rong-Gong Lin II and Sarah Parvini

Posted on 06/04/2018 11:36:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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.

Arizona recently took a major step in dealing with this question. Officials in May launched a full-scale exercise that simulated a mass exodus of 400,000 evacuees from Southern California. The drill gave emergency workers a chance to consider how they would respond to the many elements of the disaster: providing food and shelter, helping unaccompanied minors, assisting in family reunification, and dealing with the transportation and resource hurdles

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: berkeley; california; earthquake; fremont; hayward; haywardfault; kenhudnut; oakland; sanandreasfault; sanfrancisco; sodomandgomorrah
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To: BenLurkin

Grant phishing. “Send Us money”


41 posted on 06/04/2018 11:57:53 AM PDT by Dawggie
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42 posted on 06/04/2018 11:58:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: BenLurkin

Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Send them all to MEXICO!


43 posted on 06/04/2018 11:59:15 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: BenLurkin

Into the Pacific???


44 posted on 06/04/2018 11:59:31 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>>Most states aren’t going to want them so it will take a lot of “rulings” by the activist Feral “judges” that force the states to take these “unaccompanied minor refugees”.<<

During the depression the Governor of California sent Highway Patrol to the California border to keep others out.

SCOTUS ruled it cant be done.

Any LEGAL resident from any state can go anywhere in the USA unfettered.


45 posted on 06/04/2018 12:00:10 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: BenLurkin
FEMA can set up tent cities on federal land (1,000s of acre's available). NG can run it...

Deport all illegals back to their home country...

Problem solved....

46 posted on 06/04/2018 12:00:56 PM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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To: BenLurkin

I lived in the Los Angeles area for 40 years before moving to NC 3 years ago. In all that time, only Loma Prieta (San Francisco;1989) and Northridge (Los Angeles; 1994) caused a lot off-road deaths and significant property damage. The “big one” might happen someday, but there have been only three 7.4 to 7.9 quakes in California in the past 146 years. Only one, the 1906 San Francisco quake, took hundreds to thousands of lives. So I would not recommend worrying about California quake refugees. Worry instead about the political earthquake that turned California’s state government bona fide communist.


47 posted on 06/04/2018 12:01:10 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: BenLurkin

They can go live with Jerry Brown, Maxine Waters, Gavin Newsom, Dianne Feinstein, Xavier Becera, and other liberal hacks trying to make California into a third-world Marxist country.


48 posted on 06/04/2018 12:01:14 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: BenLurkin

“Where will they go?”
Surfing!


49 posted on 06/04/2018 12:01:14 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: BenLurkin

Hi BenLurkin. Thanks for posting this.

I just “escaped” San Diego after being there for a weekend. I’ve gone to SD the first weekend of June for a few years. There have always been a number of homeless living in tent cities, but this year there was a considerable number of homeless sleeping on streets and doorways in the downtown area. A cab driver told me that there had been a hepatitis outbreak in a major tent city and all “residents” were evicted and all their clothing and belongings were burned. So they started sleeping on the sidewalks.

I’ve even considered taking my sleeping bag next year for my trip and save the hotel cost.

All this to say, how is California going to subsidize the homeless if the Big One occurs. Can’t the displaced citizens start living on the streets. Okay, enough of my sarcasm. I hope your day is fabulous, my FRiend.

Gwjack


50 posted on 06/04/2018 12:03:00 PM PDT by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: BenLurkin
Lets see, in a big event which creates thousands of refugees, they suggest sending people east into the Arizona desert?

Man, who's the jack ball that came up with that one?


51 posted on 06/04/2018 12:10:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BenLurkin

Nonsense....
I was there in the ‘89 quake.
Fireplaces collapsed, poorly reinforced concrete failed, power was lost for 3-5 days....
90% of the Bay Area was back working in a week.
Yes it took 6-12 months to get everything back working (Santa Cruz took the longest) but at most 1000 were homeless for a period of time.


52 posted on 06/04/2018 12:10:47 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Where? Into and under the Pacific Ocean, according to Edgar Cayce. Hope it happens on Oscar night. Thanks BenLurkin.

53 posted on 06/04/2018 12:11:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Red Badger

Not if we pull our 9.0 card out first.


54 posted on 06/04/2018 12:17:47 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: BenLurkin

They dealt it, they can smell it


55 posted on 06/04/2018 12:19:17 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorableo)
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To: Cold Heart

.223 or 5.62 ............................................


56 posted on 06/04/2018 12:19:28 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: jetson

bttt


57 posted on 06/04/2018 12:20:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: dragnet2

Maybe one of the California hating Freepers.


58 posted on 06/04/2018 12:22:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t send ‘em here, please!


59 posted on 06/04/2018 12:24:38 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: BenLurkin

I think we can disregard those individuals turned into pillars of salt.


60 posted on 06/04/2018 12:29:19 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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