[BuffaloJack]

The lefty alarmists really do like doing the Chicken Little, don’t they.

[mumblypeg]

Having been through a little weather event called Hurricane Katrina, I now actually believe that advance preparation—which we did not have prior to that event— is a verrrry good idea.
But I would add the caveat, that, while government can and should coordinate **some** services, particularly dissemination of information, families can and should prepare to be self-sufficient, rather than relying wholly on the government.
Preppers call this ‘having a bug-out plan.’

[Steve_Seattle]

"The lefty alarmists really do like doing the Chicken Little, don’t they."

There WILL be a massive earthquake here someday, as has happened in the past. It could happen in five minutes or a hundred years, but it will happen. Many millions of years ago, the shore of the Pacific Ocean was near the present-day Washington/Idaho border, and the tectonic plates keep shifting.

But as a practical matter, apart from the occasional emergency exercise, people go on as if it will never happen. People build houses and skyscrapers and visit the beach, betting on the hundred-years-from-now instead of the five-minutes-from-now scenario.

In my lifetime I've lived though about half-a-dozen tangible earthquakes, and a couple were just below the threshold where significant damage would occur.