Juan De Fuca "Low Slip" Event - West Coast Monkies Check Your Preps

@Bandit99 That is a good question because most of our goods come in to ports in the PNW. A Natural disaster on the west coast would have a huge impact on the country as a whole.

The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest

 

Thanks, Motomom34, for posting the link.

That article is well-researched and thoroughly disturbing.
It's also a masterpiece of gentle understatement.

When the Big One hits (either as the Little Big One or the Biggest Big One) it will not just be an apocalyptic event--it will be a cosmic shopping cart slap full of full-scale apocalyptic events.

And they'll all hit the checkout stand at the same time.

The domino effect will carry disaster-level effects all the way to the East Coast. No place will be exempt.

Armageddon will take place on Wall Street as trillions are written off to the utter destruction of thousands of businesses. That will trigger a Crash that will beggar millions of people overnight, followed by a Greater Depression as thousands of nominally healthy business shut down for lack of parts and/or materials that used to come in from the West Coast. That's in addition to the thousands of business that are utterly destroyed in the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent fire storms.

The National Electric Gris will go down, and come back up in bits and pieces however fast it can. Much of the West & Northwest will stay dark because the damage will be inaccessible for repair.

Fuel disruptions = food disruptions. It takes trucks to supply farms with diesel and supermarkets with food. Everyplace the food supply is interrupted for more than three days will become a war zone.

And, even after reading (and, hopefully, understanding) the danger, most of the people in the Northwest will go right on doing as they have done before. The normal human response to a problem that has no real-world solution is to ignore it.

That's why people have farms on the slopes of active volcanoes. They don't have any better options. So they live with the danger, ignore it, and hope they say lucky long enough to die of old age.

Ultimately, I guess, we all get by on our personal ration of luck, leveraged as much as possible by well-made plans and careful prepping.

In the Game of Survival, the first player with forty-one great-grandchildren wins.

 

There will be plenty of fresh meat after it hits until it's not fresh any more.

 

Y'all speaking of the SE say "ALLIGATORS" like they are a bad thing. Post SHTF alligators to me are just another good food source. I keep waiting for one to walk across my property, or up to the door like you see on so many news stories. Actually the odds are pretty slim on that due to my high and dry location. But, I do not have to go far to find all I need. Or if I need to feed some.

 

I had to spend a week in Baltimore last month. Everyone! was explicit that I should not walk the <1 mile between the nice hotel and John Hopkins facility the wife was getting some work done at. Even a humongus black, ex-Ranger, Baltimore native cabbie said he wouldn't walk that. Hosp staff can have armed escort to their car, taxi pickup, or bus stop.
No CCW there, no blades > 3 inches, no mace/pepper spray allowed. Never felt so naked....

 

Like the feral hogs around here: a nice, rapidly reproducing food source with the added benefit of, corpus, err, garbage disposal.

 

I have heard it said that the longest bacon comes from the longest pig.

(Ummm, don't quote me on that. I'm a vegetarian. Supposedly.)

 

Yep! That's what was talking about. It will affect EVERYTHING. Personally, I don't think America will completely survive crisis because of our economic state and our enemies will take advantage of the catastrophe to gain as much political and power status as possible - meaning - our super power status goes into the toilet, among other things. Don't forget - we're broke and we're talking a hell'va lot of money that we don't have just for crisis management not even rebuilding. This event will change the world, that for certain...

@Motomom34 Thanks for finding the article. I should have looked for it myself since I reference it but, for some odd reason, I didn't do so. Thank you!

 

Port of Ensenada claims increasing share of West Coast shipping
Port of Ensenada claims increasing share of West Coast shipping | TECMA

There are other ports, large deep water ports, well south of Portlandia and Seattle...

 

Money quote
"Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”"

Sobering article. Thank you for finding and sharing.

 

I know all three of these are fiction, but all of them posit scenarios similar to what is being posted here. "Alas Babylon" , Pat Frank. "Lucifer's Hammer" Pournell/Niven ". And Turtledove's "Super Volcano" trilogy, Which IMHO had very disappointing ending. Maybe need to locate and re-read them again.

 

Lets clear something up here, OryGun does NOT receive large deepwater ships loaded with food stuffs, only "Coasters" loaded with build materials and basic goods, OryGun is an Export state, we ship massive amounts of grass crops, timber, and steel, as well as ore and agragtes amd gypsum! OryGyn has but one functioning deep water port, Astoria, upriver ports are not equipped to serve any thing larger then a Coaster, and the system is draft limited to 1 40 foot deep channel! The Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers was supposed to deepen the channel to 60 feet, but that takes a constant effort and the Gov will not supply the needed equipement!

Any way, China would stop getting 90 percent of its total lumber shippments, most of its grain, rice, steel, and agragates!
Orygun Could have a second deep water port, but has never put an effort toward doing so, Tillimook bay could almost rival San Francisco in capasity, and is a much more stable bay with out those YUGE tidal shifts!

 

Plus they have really really good cheese and ice cream!

 

Yea, you aint kidding! Tillimook Ice cream will likely be my Undoing! Cant get enough of it! Between that and Unpqua, im done for! Lol
I was just looking at todays U.S.C.G. river pilots charts, seems the Gov. cannot even maintain a 50 depth up river beyond the Toungue Point Coast Guard Station, and 40 feet all the way to Terminal 1 in Portland, wonder why, from T-6 all the way to T-4 should be a cake walk, and T-3 to T-1 would almost never need more then one pass per year! 60 feet is a bugger, and with the port of Astoria at capasity today of 36 freighters, and an additional 30 ships in transit, thats a lot of big reasons to demand action of the feds to get that channel to 60 feet, widened to 600 feet and kept there! Arseholes! And they wonder why its called the grave yard of the Pacific!

 

It's ok , oily for my taste ,
Im a heavy cheese eater .
Try Balladoor , Armstrong .
No oil on a grilled cheese samwich is seen !
Dry Cheddar
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I have a sneaking feeling that the powers that be believe in a catastrophe about to happen , believing in the Agenda 21, having a significant population in particularly sensitive areas to disaster , the greater loss of life, the fewer to govern. easier to manipulate .

 

I think the most important point of the article is that the lead vulcanologist for the state of Oregon's name is GOLDFINGER. Are you kidding? Yikes.

 

I've killed and ate my share of Gators. Easy pickings with a 14-0 hook and a rotten piece of chicken. Cutting the fat out of the meat is tedious but the hornback makes a great muddy boot scraper for a couple of years.

In the north I carry a hardhat, tool belt, duct knife, and roofing axe in the car.

 

Used to live in Japan and had a 6.5 one while I was there. Scary, but damage was limited as they've got a lot of experience building. Not sure you could build something for a 9.0. Folks who live in MO also need to pay attention. New Madrid hasn't cooked one off in awhile.