Nuclear fall out

In California, folks are getting a bit edgy about Japan’s problems. Doesn’t this disaster just cry out for countries to shut down nuclear and search for better ways of energy?

Haha no kidding. I just commented on this topic on another post, but it’s in all of the blogs and news sites that I read! I can’t blame people for being alarmed. If you read the news articles, the San Andreas fault will rupture completely, a giant tsunami will hit us, and our nuclear power plants will fail. And this can happen any day now. It’s quite comforting, really. I even found a site that will tell you whether or not you’re in fatality range if something happens to a nuclear power plant. (If I’m in my apartment, I’m only in injury range. But I don’t have to go far to be in fatality range.)

My dad once mapped out where the safest place in the U.S. to live would be (he watches a lot of disaster movies). I think he somehow came up with Vermont.

I can not imagine why he picked Vermont. The next time you talk with him ask him how he came to that conclusion.

That is interesting, Vermont. Would love to hear more about your dads mapping…..sounds really cool!
We are also close to the San Andreas fault here.

LOL Vermont? I’m curious, too, about that. The truth is that even states that don’t think of themselves as being earthquake endangered often are. There are faults all over the place and if one decides to rumble, watch out.

I’ll have to ask him. If I remember right, he looked at various fault lines and natural disasters and tried to figure out which ones we were more likely to survive and what areas would be hit the worst.

oceangypsy–We’re practically neighbors then Big fault line, sure, but same general region.

Orry Main: I think that it’s worse for the states that don’t feel like they are earthquake endangered. As someone who grew up in California, I can react to an earthquake without thinking about it (I’m sure that oceangypsy can too). A big one would be bad, but our buildings are relatively safe, and most of us know what to do. Now my friends in the Pacific Northwest (where I went to college), aren’t nearly as prepared, and they’re at the risk for a big earthquake in the near future. I know people from the region who have never felt an earthquake. I can see more panic and more buildings collapsing there than if the same earthquake hit California.

As much as I hate to say it, considering the devastation that happened there, Haiti is a good example of why it is so important to be prepared. I know they didn’t have the resources to devote to it, but when it comes down to it, their earthquake had a significantly smaller magnitude than the one that happened in Japan. But while the buildings in Japan were built to withstand an earthquake, the ones in Haiti weren’t.

Allgreen, I am in central Cali. Unless it is a big earthquake, they really do not phase me much. Grew up here also, experienced some fairly good ones.

It’s even where you are. I remember going to LA once when there was a little quake. I was with a friend, also from CA but in an area where they need nothing ever. She was so unnerved. I couldn’t help it – I laughed. It was just little building sway … lol

That’s true, they don’t really phase me. If they happen in the middle of the night, I usually don’t bother to get out of bed

The biggest earthquake I can remember happened when I was about 5. I was more concerned about the fact that my morning cartoons were canceled than the earthquake itself.

Fires, on the other hand, terrify me.

LOL gotta watch those cartoons. It sounds like Japan is getting some control back on their nuclear problem. I sure hope so. It’s affecting their food supply now.

It was very important to my five-year-old self! And they had good cartoons on back then too

I’m glad that they’re getting some control back. I feel so bad for everyone in Japan. That’s not good about their food supply!

Not just food supply, water is also highly contaminated. I am wondering what this does to our already polluted oceans.

Yeah I heard about the water supply. Also stuff like contaminated milk is highly dangerous apparently.