From: Ellen K. 

One thing I've been thinking about is whether I would have left upon
hearing the evacuation order.  I kinda hate to admit it but suppose it was
an earthquake warning if we could predict them, I probably would have
stocked up on water etc but said "This house withstood the Northridge
quake, it will withstand whatever's coming, I'm not leaving."

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:46:33 -0400, Richard B. 
wrote in message :

>On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:28:28 -0500, John Cuccia 
>wrote:
>
>>The other thing that strikes me is that we can't ever be fully
>>prepared for something like this.
>
>There is a lot of finger-pointing by many.  You are right, though, and
>every event, every hurricane is different.
>
>If The Big One hit CA tomorrow, would we be prepared?  Nope, no way.
>We know all about the dangers, but must we have everything at the
>ready to rebuild if/when it happens?  It's incredible some people
>think every contingency for every disaster must be ready to go at a
>moment's notice.  Not possible.
>
>What is possible is to mitigate the risks.  Rebuilding New Orleans,
>unless they do it to withstand a Cat5 storm, is foolish immho.
>
>- Richard

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