No, it's not a new McDonald's menu item. Dubbed the Great ShakeOut, at 10 AM on Thursday, November 13, 2008, five million people across the state will participate in one huge simulated 7.8 magnitude earthquake drill. Such activities, normally reserved for police, fire and emergency room staffers, are including even office workers because of the large-scale destruction that might occur in such an event. MORE>>What are your plans in the event of a devastating quake hitting the Inland Area in your lifetime? Would you be able to communicate with family if cell phones no longer work? What if major roads and bridges are destroyed, do you have a meeting point planned? Is there water, food and camping equipment, enough to last for three days, stored in your garage? With a portion of the San Andreas Fault running across the base of the mountains above Highland, it's borderline suicidal not to have some kind of plan in place should disaster strike. The recent fires of 2003 and last year should be a warning to all of us. I love to hear from others what kind of plans they have.
This is a great time for all of us to get our emergency preparedness acts together so we don't have to depend on public resources, which will no doubt be overwhelmed, in such a catastrophe.
image: (from 1994 Northridge Quake) The Washington Times
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