Yeah, yeah, I know I am a little late getting to the party on this one. It happened yesterday right?
As many of you know I am taking the California State Bar so I have not been blogging with frequency. I promise that will change soon and the suburban preparedness movement will be back on schedule.
A couple important things to note about the So. Cal tremor; there were water disruptions and gas lines broken. This was a mild quake folks, they can get MUCH LARGER. 5.4 is NUTHIN!!!
If you live in an earthquake prone zone you better be prepared on ALL FRONTS. Expect water supply problems, expect extended power outages and expect food shortages as main road ways are damaged and the trucks can’t get in or out. I believe that if water mains are damaged they will be the most difficult to repair. Most power companies have crews trained to restore power quickly, but water mains don’t burst everyday!! Oh yeah… AND THEY ARE UNDERGROUND! That might make it a LITTLE bit tougher!
Tomorrow is my last day of the bar but then I am off for a little vacation (I deserve it!!!) Expect the normal post to start up again around mid August. Hey, if Rangerman can take time off then why can’t I?
FYI, I got interviewed for the Details magazine article on suburban prepping. I was glad to be able to provide some positive (hopefully) press for our movement. If more suburbanites are prepared then we will have more people to band together with and the chances of our survival increase.
-SP
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[...] California Earthquake « Suburban Preparedness and Suburban Survival As many of you know I am taking the California State Bar so I have not been blogging with frequency. I promise that will change soon and the suburban preparedness movement will be back on schedule. [...]
Good luck on the Bar and thanks for posting something, I was about to give up on ya!
Kidding.
I check in regularly.
Hey, I’ll see your earthquake on Day 1 Essays of the bar, and raise you Electricity shut off in the middle of Day 3, PTB! Can you believe it? It happened after 30 minutes of writing the PT exam. I waited for an hour to see if the electricity was going to come back on and then had to submit my exam as is! If the electricity was turned back on w/in the hour then they were going to give me an additional 5 minutes to finish! Imagine waiting an hour and then being expected to remember all the facts & the case law for the Memo on supression of evidence? I think I ultimately got the best outcome but it is a little scary to think what is going to happen now! Anyway, I wish you luck and fun during the next 4 months….know you are in good company. hahahaha
Good luck on your exam, study hard. One thing not mentioned in your post is that a strong earthquake will certainly spark fires. We (Californians) just finished putting out 1100 fires caused by a simple lighting storm. Think what will happen when an earthquake ruptures gas lines and there is not enough water pressure (from broken water mains) to run fire hoses, and trucks cannot get into burning neighborhoods because the roads are buckled. Won’t that be fun to deal with
. San Francisco had to level blocks of buildings in the 1906 earthquake as a fire break because the water lines stopped working.
HELLO, ELLO ELlo ello!
Any one here?, ere, ere, ere.
It’s awful quiet around here.
It’s Friday, August 8th, I figured I would check in to see what yer up to,.
Waiting for an update, see ya soon I hope.
loocking for members for are survivalist group we have a tracker suvivalist group we have survival training my e-mail is blackbelt51@aol.com