Perhaps they volcano surfed on the newly formed slopes.
Posted on 04/18/2019 1:04:46 PM PDT by Ezekiel
We can't stop hurricanes either, but just think of how many fewer people die from them now, compared to 100 - 200 years ago, despite many more people living in harm's way, today. This comes from understanding (study) and ability to get warnings out, have time to get people "out", etc.
Our understanding of volcanoes and earthquakes is likely at a stage similar to what we knew about hurricanes a hundred, maybe 200 years ago. So, we have a lot to learn. Once we do learn more, we'll still be powerless (or foolish) to stop or mitigate them, most likely, but we will know better how to save lives.
Agreed. Ask people in an active volcano / earthquake zone like the Philippines, about landslides...
Truth be told, that article is roundly-mocked in both public & private preparedness circles in the NW. I should know.
Here’s the deal: Libs on the left coast don’t care a damned thing about the people. Look to San Francisco’s controversies following the 1906 quake for clues.
Former Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber’s girlfriend and one-time ‘first lady’ of the state was fined today for misusing her position to land lucrative ‘green’ contracts.
The hypocrisy is rather stunning: Lib regional planners (all on the public pension dole) argue that Cascadia is cyclical, yet these same geniuses deny that climate has the same cycles.
All libs care about are their public-sponsored pensions and money. The so-called ‘studies’ are pork, no different than those on ‘climate change’.
The New Yorker article contains some fair details, but it’s a work of fiction if you consider one factor:
Tohoku was very similar to that which is forecast to hit the NW. Try to find evidence of widespread shaking damage inland from what they ‘scarecast’ to be the “big one” at 9.0.
The whole thing is one bad joke, particularly-considering that more people will die in the weeks after the quake (haves & have-nots) while the left coast states who proclaim to be “studying” to “make the states safer” do absolutely NOTHING to be self-sufficient while waiting for the oft-delayed FEMA aid...
Case-in-point: I was party to a session on emergency preparedness and drinking water. The only speakers presented by the city were a private company selling stuff to boil water for emergency purposes and the local utility’s fed-sponsored water trucks (i.e., get dependent upon government via your local utility).
More likely they surfed the successive tsunami waves and wound up on the summit of the Cascades... and its all downhill from there to Sandpoint.
Heck! If you want to save lives do this. Abolish cars and highways. Between 30 and 40 thousand lives are lost per year in car accidents, or abolish abortion. 800 thousand lives would be save a year, every year.
A monster hurricane could really straighten out the weather in the Gulf of Mexico. And a tsunami could really clean up the beaches in New Jersey.
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Well, we DO work & study & spend a lot trying to reduce auto deaths. Without those efforts, we’d easily be up around 100k / yr, IMO.
Reducing abortion though... that needs even more work to get more people on board our train.
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