The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Do you think the Bay Area is prepared for a major disaster, such as a wildfire, earthquake, tropical storm, etc.?
Talk about it….
no
No. Nobody is EVER prepared for a major disaster.
Life throws curve balls. You might be more prepped then the next guy, but you can’t think of every contingency.
Of course not. The bay area is no different than state, federal government, or any other locality. Nothing is done until it becomes an untenable crisis. We’re not there yet.
They arent but I am.
The biggest disaster to the Bay Area is Gavin Newsom, and our Democrat leaders. Nobody can ever be prepared for the chaos, and destruction that have caused.
That was not the question you were asked and its best if we leave political matters out.
Gavin Newsom’s destruction is not moving as fast as an earthquake or a hurricane but end result will be the same amount of destruction.
@ Reality
Mega dittos!
Show us where it WASN’T asked.
I gotta agree – the California government is a disaster ……
OK…. Nicky B. is in charge now!
Answer the way she tells you to. Attention everybody….self appointed Liberal in charge now, she knows best so do as you’re told.
Gavin is natural. Gavin is a disaster. Gavin is a natural disaster.
@ ADDLEPATE
Mega Dittos !
@ Dawg
Mega dittos!
Absolutely not.
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“They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours.
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Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed.
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In 2006, citing the threat of avian flu, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a powerful set of medical weapons to deploy in the case of large-scale emergencies and natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and pandemics.”
latimes https://tinyurl.com/yc783cb7
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Pat Brown’s idiot kid, governor moonbeam scrapped the hospitals.
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Identifiable characteristics of DEM politicians, take 20 minutes to pass a mirror, preoccupation of how history will remember them, shallow thinkers prone to follow the leader knee jerk decisions which often make problems worse and have never found a problem they couldn’t throw many millions of taxpayer dollars at.
Mother nature always bats last so even good plans can fall apart. I have planned well but still might get kicked in the face.
I don’t really know. I lived here when we had the earthquake in 89. I had a townhouse in Foster City, and a business in San Bruno. I was at my business when the earthquake hit. I must have gotten to Foster City okay, because my daughter and I who were 9, went over to my Danish friends house in Foster City, where several of us sat glued to the radio. My exhusband worked in Alameda and lived in Foster City it took him hours to get to FC. My daughter was really worried, this was of course before cell phones.
Everytime there’s a big disaster someone wants to blame someone else if things go wrong. Of course when you have a Katrina, or huge fire or earthquake, something is bound to go wrong. People panic, unexpected things happen. Certainly mistakes are made and some could possible be avoided, some not. The best thing to do is try to stay calm and help out as much as possible. It is so easy to complain and blame, some of it is knee jerk, it is either the democrats or republicans. That serves very little purpose, instead all should try to do what they can in their situation. After things are settled down then it can be anylyzed what could have been done better, so next time that will be avoided. Natural disasters being what they are, there will always be something unpredictable.
Very well said ” The best thing to do is try to stay calm and help out as much as possible”. The blame games suck and we should look after ourselves first then take care of others if we can. Not being selfish but if you cannot take of yourself then you have nothing to give to others.
That’s the way I grew up. but it was a different time and a different country. I grew up in the fifties in rural Denmark. If a neighbor was sick or elderly, the neighbors would get together, one would maybe agree to fix lunch for the person, another would offer to bring over dinner, someone else would volunteer to do grocery shopping. My mother always said “I’m going to the store anyway, or I’m making dinner no reason I can’t make a little more and bring it to the person who needeed it. Everybody knew everybody.
@HANNE JEPPESEN..….Guess what?…It was just the same here in rural America back in the fifties.
Yes I’m sure it was. Actually when I came to the States in early 1967 I experiences some of that. I was an au pair in Westport Ct, which is and was quite affluent. However, neighbors knew each other. There were only a few places for young people to hang out, so you constantly ran into people you knew. I loved it. Draw back in rural Denmark when I was grwoing up, too much gossip, because everyone knew all the dirty laundry. And not everyone was tolerant of things different. I was teased for my clothes, because I dressed more city like.
yup…that is what good people do.
We don’t have a lot of water saved up but there is a lot of beer in the refrigerator. As long as the power stays on to keep it cold. The thing about disasters is you never know what they will be. The Bay Area is probably prepared for some of them but if an asteroid hits it’s all over.
I don’t drink beer (although Denmark is famous for some ot their beer, Carlsberg), but I have some nice California white wine on hand, most of the time.
P.S. I think the Carlsberg beer that is available in Denmark can not be sold in the US, due to it’s high alcohol content, we call it Elephant beer.
Well I’m made of sterner stuff than that!
If absolutely left with no other choice I can & will drink warm beer.
Breakfast at Chico State, warm beer and cold day old combination pizza.
Weekend drinking started on Thursday and ended on Tuesday.
It’s not enough to be prepared yourself. Local Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) can help neighbors help each other to deal with a disaster situation. Major disasters will always overwhelm all levels of government, so, for a while, we’ll have to deal with the effects of the disaster on our own on a very local level. Organizations such as Red Cross, The Salvation Army, and others provide assistance in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Consider joining CERT or one of these other groups.
People are the ones that need to be prepared for a major disaster. Have water supply, food supply, medicine, for at least 10 days. For humans and animals. Make sure you have a source of energy to cook on and boil water if needed. Like a charcoal bbq. Always keep a bottle of whiskey on hand for treating shock, and rubbing alcohol for treating wounds. Bandages, or clean old sheets are really important as well. Be ready to help those who have those needs as well.
Mother Nature is not to be f*cked with … Billy G … F*ckerberg … Newscum and the lot of them have been up ti no good for too long … be careful she bite. Things have a way of balancing out … this time it ain’t gonna be pretty … me thinks
Are you kidding? We already are; just look around!
Not even close…. but I think I’m almost as prepared as I can be… btw we have a natural (unnatural??) disaster we’re dealing with now….. Newsom, Bonta & Becton
I have medical trauma bags, MREs, water purification, tools, ballistic vests and helmets and more guns, and ammo than I will ever need in a lifetime. I also have solar panels, batteries and vicious dogs. I would like to start raising chickens, and maybe a vegetable garden. Not enough space to do that right now.
I read a very interesting book that was written by someone that survived the Civil War in the Balkans. That’s pretty much the closest thing to what would happen here if SHTF ever occurred. I think the way this society is going, it’s a very distinct possibility. Just imagine if they didn’t pay welfare for a month? They would be looting in all of the nice neighborhoods.
It’s shocking, how many people are completely dependent on the government for everything. Money, food, housing, healthcare. They have no sense of self sufficiency. If society goes bad, they are going to be the ones that are really in trouble. Become self-sufficient. Don’t depend on anybody.
I’m all for self reliance, but we don’t live in a vaccum, we are dependent on others. Some might be dependent on the government for everything as you state, however that is not the majority. Some might be working and can provide there own food, and housing, but might get healthcare through the government, if they don’t make enough money. We are all dependent on someone else for our healthcare, either the government or a private health care provicer, which most of the time means big business, not sure that is any better than the government, and unfortunately the way the health care business is run in this country, many are at vim of an insurance company, they end up making medical decisions instead of a a healthcare provider.
People need to be prepared to take care of themselves for a month without government support.
I know that seems like a lot of time.
Depending on the severity of the disaster, infrastructure could take a month or longer to be rebuilt. Food and medicine will be needed the most. Protection from the elements and criminals will be important too.
To prepare, I imagine I wake up to find myself living 200 years ago alone in the wilderness.
What do I need to survive?
That’s how to start the list.
I would say in general, the BA is mostly prepared, for the macro part anyway. I think gavvy is prepared to jump in and make nice speeches, and I expect he would have some activities planned that would help, but I would not put much faith in him (nor should I to be
honest). I read above how many individuals here believe they are prepared, and I see no reason to think otherwise. I personally feel I am prepared for most contingencies, but I know of a few situations where I am not prepared to manage effectively.
I know kung foo
@MARTINEZMIKE……So did Carl but can you sing about it?….….
https://youtu.be/bmfudW7rbG0
I had a discussion with my best pal who is a fireman. He said that in the event of a major disastor, our flat out no joke number one concern is water. If we cant get it, we go look for it.
If there is an interuption to the water supply of urban Oakland berkeley etc, they will migrate to the reservoirs – if those are fouled theyll move further into yup you guessed it: coco county and trivalley areas.
Best be armed.
Here is a brand new report from the Pew Research Center on gun ownership in America that identifies the percentages of gun owners and their reasons for owning firearms, their political affiliations, race, education, etc. Very revealing.
https://tinyurl.com/mu29v6pu
Keep your ammo dry, and your guns close. You never know what might happen.