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 […]
Oh, great. "California Earthquake Could Be the Next Katrina":
…In Los Angeles, all but one of 8,700 unreinforced masonry buildings — considered the most likely to collapse in a major quake — have been retrofitted or demolished. The state spent billions after the 1994 Northridge quake to retrofit more than 2,100 freeway overpasses, reporting this week […]
On Sep. 2, KFI AM 640 Los Angeles hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou conducted an interview with Karen E. Armes, who's the Acting Regional Director for FEMA's Region IX (covering CA, HI, AZ, NV, Guam, and American Samoa).
The audio is linked from here, and this is a direct link.
As with other John and Ken […]
