[Cold Heart]

March is disaster preparedness month. Our local concern includes the 9.0+ mega thrust eathquake. Lots of bad things are expected for us on the coast. Power, water roads all out for very long time. 1-2 years to restore drinking water.

[A Navy Vet]

"Safety officials recommend all residents have an emergency kit that includes a battery or hand crank radio, whistle and food and water to sustain themselves for several days."

"Several days"? If the San Andreas does its thing, you're going to need more than "several days". The potential for long-term disruption of supplies is a reality. Plus, no mention of self-defense when the "takers" start looting local inner-city stores shelves and go bare. Guess where they will head? This is my Prepping scenario.

Anyone who doesn't remember the LEOs backing out of the Rodney King riots weren't paying attention, and that was just because of a verdict. Imagine the confusion and desperation if the water lines, gas lines, power lines, food distribution lines and major trucking routes are broken. Not to mention the further destruction by the rioters when Uncle Nanny can't re-supply quickly enough. It will make Katrina and Storm Sandy look like inconveniences.

[DCBryan1]

What they really mean to say:

"Thanks to liberals and the government, citizens have been disarmed and pose little threat to us when the food and water run out! They will be whining and begging for a place under big government's wing like Hurricane Sandy victims and they will have to relinquish those arcane so-called constitutional rights"

[Celtic Conservative]

What if the"big one" happens while they are practicing for the "big one"? would it screw things up so badly it would take longer to get it sorted out? I seem to recall that the day Doolittles raiders attacked Tokyo they had just concluded an air raid drill so that when the American planes came overhead nobody thought anything of it and it totally screwed up their response to the raid. Just a quirky thought.

CC

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Jeff Chandler]

[US Navy Vet]

I HOPE that the “Big One” slides LA and San Fruitcisco into the Pacific.

[Gritty]

If they're smart, they'll be stocking up and planning for a whole lot more than "several days" of inconvenience waited on by helpful first responders, accompanied with their own handy whistles, a battery radio, a few bottles of Evian water and cans of cold ravioli with Ritz crackers, followed up by a street party to eat up all the left over FEMA goodies...

A Failure of Civility

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yeah, that whistle will do really well against intruders. /sarc