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This is Earthquake Country, Los Angeles Can’t Afford to Not be Prepared Details
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Neighborhood Council Emergency Preparedness Alliance, we ve tried to educate ourselves about what is needed to withstand the post-earthquake two-to-three-week interval in which the region would be without electric power, flowing water, and readily available police and fire service. Note that the fire department is now advising people to have food and water stored that would last at least two weeks.
The reason for this advice is not at all complicated. A major rupture on the San Andreas Fault would destroy the California Aqueduct as it passes over the fault. It would simultaneously destroy the freeways where they cross the fault, thereby separating the greater Los Angeles area from distribution warehouses.
GELFAND’S WORLD The ouster of Liz Cheney from her position in the House Republican hierarchy could be the start of a chain reaction.
One clue is that 100 former officials Republicans all are now threatening to form a third party unless other Republicans come to their senses over the Trump claims of election stealing.
It s not too much of a stretch to suggest that if even ten or fifteen percent of Republicans leave the party to support opposition candidates, this would open the doors wide for Democratic victories in states where the two parties are fairly close.
They don t even have to be swing states in the traditional sense of a state that sometimes goes one way and sometimes goes the other. They just have to be states where Republicans win by five or ten percent routinely. For Democrats, losing by five percent in the past suddenly becomes winning by two percent in the future.
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When you go by that definition, the numbers are astonishing.
Just counting the mass killings that made the national news, we had a run of 31 dead in the 30 day period running from March 16 to April 15. On the average, one a day, every day.
The gun lobby and its apologists have a lot to answer for. let s ask one more time: What number of mass shooting victims is an acceptable number to you, and is there any number that will finally be too high? We need to ask these questions because at the moment, just in these first 4 months of 2021, we ve already had 150 mass shootings 50 of them just in the last 34 days. This must be acceptable to the pro-gun faction, because we haven t heard anything to the contrary from them.