It is harrowing. And I'd like to hope that folks that live in Oregon are familiar with it. Living in California, we get public service announcements and outrea

It is harrowing. And I'd like to hope that folks that live in Oregon are familiar with it. Living in California, we get public service announcements and outreach about preparedness. The FEMA guidelines of 3 days supplies are a fine rule of thumb for a lot of disruptive scenarios. I personally feel a 2 week ability to "shelter in place" is about the best one can hope for. But all of those rely on the underlying detail that should some great disaster hit an area like Southern California, that there is a large amount of infrastructure and support outside of the area that can be marshaled and rallied to support those impacted by the event. Simply put, within 2 weeks, not only has the cavalry arrived, you're likely already on your way out to a safe area. Mind, I live in a earthquake zone. My singular true risk is uncontrolled fire. Modern, wood stick frame housing is very resilient and resistant in collapse in case of a large quake. It can condemn the house, but the house will not likely crush the occupants. But fire, well fire is fire. We, unfortunately, know far too much about the disaster potential for fire. So, my hope is that at worse the house gets broken, doesn't catch on fire, and someone will show up within 2 weeks helping me get to someplace else. Other than that, just gotta wing it. 2 weeks of random soup and beans from a can is not a hard thing to stock up. Water is a trick if you're not doing it consciously, but it's not up to the rafters with supplies if you do. Oregon, however, is just not so lucky. If they get their planned for monster earthquake, it's very likely help will not be able to arrive within 2 weeks. You're likely looking at a much more apocalyptic scenario rated at several months. If anything, you should prepare to start hiking out. The infrastructure impact seems to be very high in Oregon. Even nearby help may not be able to get to you, with the roads being in utter ruin. So all I can hope is that there is effective outreach to the folks in Oregon and some solid advice shared on how to potentially cope with these events should they happen. Because Oregon has different issues and the generic guidelines likely will not be successful in this case.