Will our congress spend money on preparing for a tsunami or

[ej510]

will it do twice the damage of Japan because of politics? That is the question.

[FSogol]

1. You know the answer.

This country is in reverse.

[ej510]

3. It's disgusting to ignore our infrastructure problems. The fact most

politicians do not care. When we are hit with a major tsunami and earthquake and yes I mean when. Death tolls will be high. IT may take months to restore energy, and water. We are setting ourselves up for something record breaking in this nation. I am talking death totals in the thousands and damage in the hundreds of billions. Why are we so Gawd Damn hard headed.

[FSogol]

5. Plus even if you did not care, they still create local jobs. So shortsighted.

:shrug:

[liberal N proud]

2. They will send aid - only if it allows them to bleed Social Security further

If it gives them more rhetoric to kill the funding for existing programs, they will send lots of dollars to Japan.

[ej510]

4. Sadly I believe you are correct.

[PufPuf23]

6. There are already tsunami plans coordinated under FEMA in recent years.

Try a google search of "Del Norte" Plan Tsunami - plenty of links about the planning process, the Plan, agencies, etc.

Del Norte is the farthest northwest county of Califonria.

Crescent City is the county seat and was essentially destroyed by a tsunami in 1964.

Crescent City is also probably the small city of highest tsunami risk on the west coast USA.

[ej510]

7. Spending money to rebuild levies and other projects to limit the damage.

[PufPuf23]

8. If you took my suggestion to google, you would have learned much effort

has occurred in the last decade (even under Bush) in an area of high tsunami risk.

The use of science and having plans and public safety drills is progressive.

Look at this LBN thread about Crescent City. In 1964 as a result of the large Alaskan earthquake, downtown Crescent City was destroyed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4765867

There was a nuke plant on Humboldt Bay that was closed in 1983 because of earthquake risk and earliest commercial nuke power technology. All fuel and waste has been removed and the plant is scheduled to re-open on natural gas in 2013 or 2014.

I saw on another thread that you are not that scientifically literate re: plate tectonics.

[ej510]

9. And you ignored my post.