I prefer earthquakes. First off they aren’t a yearly season, and most earthquakes are a minor annoyance. Sure they show up unannounced, and you could get one that will wipe your house out
Hope it doesn’t take long. My parents place in cape corral didn’t have power for month when Ian hit FT Myers.
Earthquakes that do this damage happen how often?
Been there, done that. The weather is great!Ok I wanna come back to Southern California
Earthquake. At least all my shit is in a Pyle and not strewn all over the country side. Man I feel for them. It’s pretty amaizing how much they are building low lying areas. It may not flood ever but the onetime it does holyshit. They have built houses right next to riverbed in Fillmore. And now in Oxnard too. El nino is gonna fuck some shit up out here.
Honest question if that was the case last time why would they not have a generator for future events?
They bought the house about a year prior to Ian hitting (they don’t live there full time). Now he has some plug deal on the meter that he can plug his generator into if it happens again.
You live on a lake…go for a boat ride and catch some fish….ain’t shit else to do…right?
Fuck arresting them. Send them down the river with some weight to see what kinda damage has been done. The lowest of the low.
Thank god for Joe. He sure knows his shit.
RD owns all the MREs. Maybe he should share?
Ive lived on the San Andreas fault for my 45 years on this earth. Am I prepaird for the big one? Not hardly. Im sure most of those people have lived through many hurricanes and think nothing will happen.
That’s a good excuse. But what about the people that don’t have that excuse. Having food spoil in your fridge just because the power went out is wild to me. I have over $3000 worth of meat in my freezer relying entirely on the power company to keep my invest and food source safe is crazy to me.
So why make the choice to not be prepared?
I usually ask myself this when events like this happen. People build on cliffs, or in forests, and nature sneaks up on them. This appears to be quite different though. Storms like this are pretty unheard of in the hardest hit areas. Some of these places have heavy snow storms, but not sustained winds and massive flooding. People in SoCal are prepared for earthquakes, and the Floridians are prepared for hurricanes, but neither are prepared for blizzards. Everyone prepares most heavily for what the most common threat is. The problem is, we can't prepare for everything.
I'm assuming you're scolding yourself for this oversight when solutions are readily available and been discussed on RDP ad nauseum ??
One is nevery fully prepared. Could your family live in your home for months with no power and with the food you have? Probaly not. Im like most have 4 cases of water and stuffed freezers and pantry and plenty of ammo as well as a 5th wheel to live in. We can easily last a couple weeks. But If somthing big happened we would be jumping in the truck that has 100 gallons of fuel and making home some where else.. Most people in cali or arizona dont prepare. People in Florida and hurricane coasts do prepare but are never prepaired for the extreme. Building codes are built for preparedness of hurricanes Most people in hurricane zones have all ready have back up generators due to when hurricanes roll though it usually knocks out power for days. But how do people prepare for floods? The biggest thing you can do in a catastrophe is hopefully get up and leave.
Besides water only have 20 gallons on hand but I know where to access plenty about a mile away. We have food for 6 people 3 months easy. We have been using up some of our canned stuff to fight food prices or we could go longer. I have a 2 generators and 40 gallons of fuel. Fire wood, and a shit load of propane.
Wrightwood?
No down the the hill. All the new homes off the 15 and Glen Helen. Not sure what you call this area. Devore/San Bernardino/fontana.
I beg to differ on the blizzard. Last year they said we (in the San Berdo Mountains) were going to get a blizzard, at least several days prior. We stocked up on food, and fuel for the generator and snow blower and rode it out. I snow plowed my driveway (and to some extent my driveway area where it meets the Street) twice a day as well as cleared doors and windows, and at the end of the storm I would have been fine if the County had not ignored the forecast (they didn’t have equipment capable of plowing large amounts of snow off county maintained roads).
You were prepared for the situation, and a situation that is a fairly common issue in higher elevations. What if, instead of 12-15 inches of snow, your same area received 12-15 inches of rain? Different situation entirely when it comes to preparation. If you have all the gear, but your house is ripped from it's foundation, what then? Many of these people were told the hurricane would take a different path. Many more had been through other storms, but none like this. I'm more prepared than most, but I have no illusions that I am prepared for everything. If some biblical type flood washed my home away, none of that matters in the end.
Rosena Ranch?
Yes.
YoPengo moved to Tucson a while ago.
Correct, the big one could have intense shaking for 3-4 minutes. The '64 Alaskan quake shook for 5-6 minutes.
