NorthWest Kayak Anglers
Kayak Fishing => For Safety's Sake => Topic started by: pmmpete on February 24, 2019, 06:16:23 PM
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If you haven't read the article on the predicted Cascadia Fault earthquake in the July 20, 2015, New Yorker magazine, read it now. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one?fbclid=IwAR1pGAuJxY_y64kVsv4dVxYVDiNsRNNI0as-ZAwUVepsQ22GC7Ac0D3e1iY. If you have read that article, read it again. The bottom line is that the Cascadia Subduction fault will eventually cause a really really big earthquake and tsunami in the area near the coast in the Pacific Northwest, probably sooner rather than later, and if you live in that area and survive the earthquake and tsunami, everything will suck for a considerable period of time thereafter. My takeaway from the article: If you live in the area near the coast in the Pacific Northwest, move away from that area. You could stay in the area covered by the Northwest Kayak Angler's Forum, but move away from the coast region.
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Been reading old magazines in the out house again, Pete?
I'd think you're more in danger there with the possible mega eruption of Yellowstone than we are with a mega quake...either way, the western US is definitely over due for a major natural disaster if we're to believe the doomsayers.
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Don’t live in the tsunami zone. Prepare for being without meaningful outside aid for a month or more. Food, water, medicine, and enough guns and ammunition to protect it. Know your neighbors and any pertinent skills they may have, especially medical. Join the local CERT.
Never leaving the coast though.
Google “Carrington Event” if you want something more fun to worry about, doesn’t matter where you live really and just as likely as a CSZ event.
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If you live in Portland, you know. I'm willing to bet it's the same with Seattle and most places throughout the I-5 corridor. If you live on the OR or WA coast, the idea is even more inescapable. The sirens are tested on a regular basis. There are constant fights going on in local communities all over the potential damage zones pertaining to construction that was built without a seismic care. Personally, I'd give lots of my own money, on top of taxes, to get projects like early warning systems moving along or seismic retrofits for schools and bridges.
My house has a closet stocked with emergency food. I have lots of jugs of treated water out in my shed and water purifier systems for the creek near our house. The frame of my house is bolted to the foundation and I have a seismic shut-off for my gas line. Each vehicle has an emergency kit in case were not at home when it hits. We have plans for what to do when it hits, depending on where we are. We know where the nearest Red Cross check-in site is. I know which bridges will make it, and which ones won't so when I have to make the trek home from work I know which path to take.
When I go out to the coast to fish, I know where the nearest high-ground is. And if I'm out on the ocean, I'm prepared to pedal West as fast as I can and know that if I make it, I may have to spend the night out on my kayak because the debris field along the coast may be too dangerous to navigate.
I know my neighbors. I know which ones I'll need to check on and which ones I'll steer clear of. All this, and I don't feel like the real "preppers" of the area.
I love this place - I'm not leaving. We know. It's kinda like what happens when you tell the entire city of New Orleans that they need to move because their city is literally sinking into the Gulf.
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Doesn't matter what it is. Just do your best to be prepared. If it's not a tsunami it's a quake, fire, eruption, tornado or hurricane. No matter where you live it's the same thing. The only reason why we( steph, Cassidy and I) along with the horses, dogs and a cat didnt die this last summer in the substation fire was we were prepared. Though we lost some barns and other out buildings there house and my kayak shed survived because we prepped. We deal with fires all the time here in eastern oregon. We help fight them all summer long.wheat field and rangeland fires arnt scary. It's when those fires are deliberately set by a arsonist and 40-50mph winds. Nothing will put the fear of god in you faster than flames 30 or 40ft high in waist high wheat moving upwards of 30mph over ground.
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Been reading old magazines in the out house again, Pete?
I read that article when it first came out, but my brother-in-law sent it to me again today. He's a geologist who lives in Eagle River, Alaska, which is a suburb of Anchorage. They just experienced a big quake a couple of months ago, followed by a lot of aftershocks, so he may be thinking about earthquake issues a lot.
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I'm practicing my eating vegan skills so if all the meat with legs die in the disaster, its Birch bark and moss sammiches. ;D
If the area isn't completely destroyed there is always UberEats to deliver my food and water to me. :banjo:
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I'm just going to have Amazon deliver Hello-Fresh by drone to my home :occasion14:
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Been reading old magazines in the out house again, Pete?
I read that article when it first came out, but my brother-in-law sent it to me again today. He's a geologist who lives in Eagle River, Alaska, which is a suburb of Anchorage. They just experienced a big quake a couple of months ago, followed by a lot of aftershocks, so he may be thinking about earthquake issues a lot.
K and I have a friend who grew up in Naknek and is the step daughter of Windy Windell the former Bush pilot. He's in an old folks home there in that part of Anchorage and she kept tight tabs on his old butt during the aftershocks and such.Funny he kept telling her it wasn't as bad as the big one that hit Anchorage in the early 60's so not to worry.
Trying to do what rawkfish wrote about. If you have depression era parents or grand parents, pay attention to how the set up their pantries and learn how to can/ jar and preserve.
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I prepare for the worst but hope for the best. Shit happens. There's nowhere I'd rather be than where I'm at. The State of the Jefferson has all I need.
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I prepare for the worst but hope for the best. Shit happens. There's nowhere I'd rather be than where I'm at. The State of the Jefferson has all I need.
I hope you ain’t referring to your governing body >:D!
I’m the guy who carries enough supply’s on a one day hunting trip for 2 to allow 2-3 people to survive for 7 days :banjo:
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I prepare for the worst but hope for the best. Shit happens. There's nowhere I'd rather be than where I'm at. The State of the Jefferson has all I need.
I hope you ain’t referring to your governing body >:D!
I’m the guy who carries enough supply’s on a one day hunting trip for 2 to allow 2-3 people to survive for 7 days :banjo:
“The State of Jefferson” is itself a loaded reference to the governing bodies in Sacramento and Salem.