An earthquake as devastating as the one that hit Turkey and Syria this month has been forecast to hit Southern California for decades. What can we do to prepare?
TimesOC newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 23.
My name is
John Canalis, an assistant managing editor with the Los Angeles Times. I’m filling in today for your regular newsletter author,
David Carrillo Peñaloza, who is enjoying a well-deserved break.
Despite some political leaders’ aversion to mandating masks and placing limits on businesses, Orange County fared decently throughout the earlier days of the pandemic at least relative to its harder-hit and more-populous neighbor, Los Angeles County.
That is no longer the case.
O.C. is firmly entrenched in the hazardous purple tier on the state’s colored-coded, four-tier scale. This sobering headline says it all: