Ready for Disaster?

Hi Sharkles, There is only one problem with this idea, we never know when nature is going to throw something at us! Say if california experienced a major earthquake and half of it disapeared into the Pacific, what then? Then there is the danger of a huge earthquake under the ocean that could trigger a huge tsunami that had the potential to wipe out 25% of the pacific rim coastal areas or anywhere else for that matter? Spencer.

Yeh but as long as the supply chain for our favourite breakfast cereal remains intact...

Realistically it's a sensible article but it tends to overlook the human element in favour of the corporate... If there is a big natural disaster I don't mind feeling some ripple down ..it makes me feel connected to the rest of mankind. Obviously vital services and infrastructure need protecting....

I expect people in New Orleans were more concerned with getting away from danger, getting food and water and not being shot, rather than the supply chain for their local bloated corporation (whoops, a little bit of politics creeping in there )

An interesting idea, but in practice, it is unworkable.

It does not matter how much we prepare for a natural disaster.

We are living on an unstable planet, in the process of continual changes, some of which are violent and unexpected.

I know of no person or organisation which is able to prepare against every possible contingency.

So....it's a case of risk management, and because of computerised databases of stock lines, with the accounting branch now deciding how much, and which items should be kept in stock, the days of a particular Company having weeks or months of stock on hand, in case of a natural disaster or emergency are gone forever.

Many cities have only a few days of food in stock, some countries would run out of oil products if no deliveries arrived for even a few days.

The costs of compliance to cover every possible natural disaster, would prove too costly for almost everyone.

It's called "living on the edge".

Why only companies , natural disasters can destablise social life for years most of them working for companies , you loose tonnes of infrastructure , were it may take much time to re establish , I think japanese have a model built .

i have kept up to date with all thats going on in japan and find it amazing that so little back up facilities where available

in an earth quake zone and thus tsunami area you would have thought they would have put the back up generators well up the hill side

and why didn't they have emergency water storage high up thus negating the need for power to move it

why isn't the power from other nuke sites available ie site to site back up power links

as for the lack of site information haven't they heard of CCTV if there was CCTV covering all safety critical areas they could see whats happening thus supporting the information available from sensors

for a country thats supposed to be used to earth quakes they seem totally inept at emergency Planing

for all intents and purposes parts of Japan have gone back to the stone age for over a week now

I feel sorry for all hose injured or killed because of the tsunami which could have been predicted ie better protected buildings and better sea defences

and better planning for flooding ie hardened buildings high up the landscape with their own generators and independent heating positioned at strategic positions around the country

ps some of the casualties where caused because the population thought they were safe from tsunamis behind their sea defences and thus did not move when the alarm was raised

ALWAYS PLAN ON THE FOLLOWING ASSUMPTION

IF IT CAN GO WRONG IT WILL GO WRONG BETTER TO OVER ENGINEER WHILE ITS SAFE THEY TRY TO RECOVER AFTER THE EVENT