Natural Disasters Strike Poly People!

[Lancer]

Not yet, but I'm thinking we should prepare. I'm not talking about sticking a few gallons of fresh water in the cellar next to our emergency spam, no! That's boring. I'm talking about determining who will likely get screwed by what event so that the rest of us can point and laug...I mean mourn your passing or pray for your amazing survival. Each event having a personel list associated so that we who are out of harms way can know who among us are in jeopardy.

I'm going to start with La Palma, and the colapse of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, in a day or two. Everyonew on the East Coast near the ocean could potentially be affected.

I'm just making this thread as a heads up, and also a place where you can list a potential natural disaster near you.

I also live on the Oregon Coast, so I'll start with the Cascadia Subduction Zone slippage, a Tsunami and massive earthquake that could strike the Pac Northwest, the Tsunami spreading across the Pacific.

List your disaster here.

[ZEE]

seriously WTF is wrong with you for making a thread like this anyways?

[Starchild]

As far as I can tell, the most likely natural diseaster to strike me living in Brighton is running out of locally sourced, organically grown artisan pesto. I'm stocking up just in case.

[Tattila the Hun]

A big blizzard might do me in, or a rowing pack of polar bears. Asteroids are a possibility, also.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
A big blizzard might do me in, or a rowing pack of polar bears. Asteroids are a possibility, also.

Don’t forget comets! And the Earth’s magnetic field might go bye-bye at any moment.

[Lancer]

Very valid point AAHZ, I look at the thread title and Yikes! Not good. My idea was to make a resource we could turn to in a natural disaster to see who was in danger and do what we could. But, really stupid title. Haven't slept well in a week, don't know why.

[Qilue]

Originally posted by Heraclitus


Don’t forget comets! And the Earth’s magnetic field might go bye-bye at any moment.

http://armageddononline.tripod.com/

Another interesting page. The relevant part is the 'Perigee' column.

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?great_comets

For perspective
837/Mar/21 39 837/Feb/28 0.58 837/Apr/11 0.03 837/Apr/11 -3 1P/Halley, 3

On this orbit, Comet Halley passed within 4.5 million Km of earth. The moon's orbit is about 384,000 Km.

Comet impacts on the earth are possible and frequent with the occasional big one. However most are either too small and will burn up in the atmosphere, or are just too big to handle.

The reality is that if a 10Km+ comet had a 90% chance of impact, the only survivors would likely be a small percentage of the rich and powerful who would probably wipe themselves out in the shelters squabbling over leadership.

[Zkribbler]

The Elysian Earthquake Fault runs through the heart of L.A. and passes about 2 blocks from my work. But it has never destroyed Los Angeles, and the city's been here for more than 200 years so I'm pretty safe.

[Sirotnikov]

There's a major earthquake in Israel once every 80-90 years. The last one was about 80 years ago...

My house is old, cracked and poorly built out of very cheap concrete.

Speaking of which, we had several small tremors within a single week, late in November. That is pretty bad.

[Aeson]

My ISP could go down.

[VetLegion]

There's a nuclear powerplant in Slovenia, 20 km or so upriver from me. If anything happens to it, I'll know quickly.

[-Jrabbit]

Evil, Godless tornadoes.

[Kuciwalker]

Not a natural disaster, but I'm sure more than a few nuclear weapons are targeted near my house.

[Bkeela]

Bird Flu or some other pandemic is the biggest threat for Australia I reckon.

[ZEE]

ok ok i will play...