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LAT: SoCal "Not Ready for Disaster"

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The Los Angeles Times has a six-screener about disaster preparedness or lack of same in southern California. Feel free to provide the most scary facts in comments. Here's one from the first screen:

Detailed plans to deal with a massive emergency - one that displaces more than 300,000 people - have not been developed since the end of the Cold War, said Stephen Sellers, head of Southern California operations for the state Office of Emergency Services.

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