Spots Unknown » Quake http://spotsunknown.com Forgotten places, histories, and events of San Francisco Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:13:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ‘We’ are the First Responders in an Earthquake http://spotsunknown.com/we-are-the-first-responders-in-an-earthquake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-are-the-first-responders-in-an-earthquake http://spotsunknown.com/we-are-the-first-responders-in-an-earthquake/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:11:42 +0000 Jeff Diehl http://spotsunknown.com/?p=1756 We are the First Responders in an Earthquake, San Francisco

A great post on MissionLoc@l today reveals a brutal and likely scenario:

“We’ve done the calculations based on Loma Prieta,” the instructor says, an image of a large fireball on the screen behind him. “In a major earthquake with just winds of 10 miles per hour, we’ll see 71 large fires, 40 major rescue operations. We’ll need 273 engines.

“We don’t have those,” he says, flatly. “So where are we going to get the help?”

That would be the folks themselves - those of us who live in the affected neighborhoods.

If this article doesn't make you want to take NERT or CERT training, it will probably at least make you think again about how to take care of yourself in the case of an untimely shake.

And let's face it, it seems like everywhere but Northern California has been hit lately, so our number is due to come up soon.

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Way to sympathize, guys!

It is recommended that people donate money, not stuff. The above pic is perhaps the best possible demonstration of why.

Aside from all that, though: ew.

(Spotted @)

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Something about the empty space in front of San Francisco's oldest building, pictured above in 1881 according to the caption on Flickr, draws me in. It was made of adobe. The brick-construction Gothic Revival replacement next to it crumbled in the '06 quake:

Mission Dolores Replacement Church Destroyed

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These fine fellows look like they're feeling on top of the world in their well-stocked glass shop at 18 Sutter Street, San Francisco. The year? You guessed it: 1905.

As the story goes, the business didn't survive the quake of '06 and the family relocated to Los Angeles. Ironically, I'm sure there was a tremendous demand for their product as the rebuilding commenced.

(Spotted @ the Flickr stream of bcgreeneiv)

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