One of today’s top news was about these small but constant earthquake tremors that keep shaking. Our earthquake experts, “are not sure what it means”.the San Andreas fault has had over 2000 quakes in the last eight years. Now, they are getting more frequent, slower and deeper. specialists from Northern California, speculate, “could be relieving pressure” slowly, or “it could be an indication of something” big about to happen. Evening news said, “this kind of tremor occurred in 2004 before” that big earthquake.
The thought that comes naturally, is “what would I do as if this the “The Big One”? But then it passes, immediately. I live in Southern California and many of us think we are immune to the effects of an earthquake. But since I created an Online Storage Service, just for situations such as a massive earthquake, I had to consider more serious scenarios than the big one is coming. Okay.
First off, if something drastic was to happen, and one of my first options would be to get in the car and drive. Especially, if my roof fell down around me, or was condemned with all of my documents trapped inside. Another concern after big shaker, is a tsunami which might soon follow bringing a flood to my front door (my house could get washed down even if it survived the shaker). And again, my personal possessions, paper documents and hard drives would make no difference to me if I weren’t alive to use them.
There would be a mass exodus from the city, on a scale larger (and more chaotic) than what happened in Florida last year, or the damage worse than Hurricane Katrina.
Normally, an earthquake, comes and goes extremely fast. The damage is done within seconds, and then we evaluate the damage. Rarely has anyone encountered a quake, large enough to cause the foundation of the house to drop the roof, to the ground.
But it is predicted, will be a time when people will be crawling out of their houses to survive. An 8.0 to 9.0 earthquake would do it, even a 3.5 if it continued for more than, I’m guessing five minutes. We Californians rarely think of something so massive as the 8.0 quake.
People outside of earthquake country probably imagine earthquakes like we see in the movies striking any day. We southern Californians are used to 3.5 to a 5.0, which are rare and scary, but they’ll come and go within seconds. Earthquakes are so common in California, they happen all the time, we just don’t feel them, 1’s & 2.0ect…), I believe our largest one was a 6 or 7.5, which goes to show you how concern I am, I don’t even remember exactly. I am so complacent that I look at earthquakes the same as thunderstorms, kind of cool.
Every part of the world has problems as well as some that we share. This earthquake thing is one of those situations; where you have to say, why worry about it. “Not much I can do”, until the big one comes. It’s like waiting for tornado or accident or even the next life. What can you do but be careful & prepared? But when it comes to Mother Nature we can never tell the size of her wrath?
I imagined being in situations of the natural disasters such as an earthquake, which I expect it’s going to come soon. Hopefully it’ll be small and pass with very little damage. This time if it’s big, people on the East Coast will shake their head and thank God that they don’t live here. Just like I shake my head and pray for those that live in; hurricanes paths, tornado Alley or live in areas where the four seasons, especially winter around airplanes in close schools.
News Flash !! More crazy news Today. El Niño caused Hail storms in Maryland when it was 100° outside. Prediction 2010 with Texas to Carolina: wetter / North America: Minnesota to Washington/ mild / southern western states California to Texas: wetter.
Wishful thinking!?!?! We need the rain, (just like last years prediction), this unusual summer weather; they predict an El Niño winter. Which means the weather worldwide will be unusual again. Last winter, we were lucky if we (So.Cal.) had seven days of rain. When on the East Coast they had winter days, you’d think it was summer time. We can’t beat Mother Nature!!! We can only prepare!!! Which is what I was thinking while I was creating Regret To Inform, LLC. To help people rebuild their lives after a devastating event.
The news was my inspiration for the continual work on a ways to improve my
Online Message Storage Service.
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Benefiting the people that will be reported in the news, which hardly changes: always with victims; soldiers, celebrities, travelers, communities, countries, child and senior neglect, we are all victims-in-wait, but that’s life, lead poisoning, airborne disease, bee disappearing, food shortage… some are man-made, some by Mother Nature. The news has always fueled my desire to Help Mankind. Along with constant prayer these motivations resulted in something unique as, Regret To Inform, LLC.
Do you have an emergency plan? Do you have a backup plan?
Think! What you would do if you lost…? What information can you put on a computer kept safe a thousand of miles away? It’s a choice! Just like stocking up on fresh water and emergency food. Which brings to mind something I need to do, I think I’ll refill some empty water containers.