> I agree it would help for individuals to have emergency kits and some training. You have it reversed. FEMA is the help. You and your neighbors are the first

> I agree it would help for individuals to have emergency kits and some training. You have it reversed. FEMA is the help. You and your neighbors are the first line of response in any real emergency. In the event of a tsunami hitting the Pacific Northwest, it's expected that many communities may be unreachable for a week or longer. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big... "In the Pacific Northwest, the area of impact will cover some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people. When the next full-margin rupture happens, that region will suffer the worst natural disaster in the history of North America, outside of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed upward of a hundred thousand people. By comparison, roughly three thousand people died in San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake. Almost two thousand died in Hurricane Katrina. Almost three hundred died in Hurricane Sandy. fema projects that nearly thirteen thousand people will die in the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Another twenty-seven thousand will be injured, and the agency expects that it will need to provide shelter for a million displaced people, and food and water for another two and a half million." No federal response will ever be capable of effectively responding to such a disaster without serious local support.