Ran a few errands in town and then went to the Ferndale Police headquarters for a meeting on communications for the upcoming Ski-to-Sea race and for the Cascadia Rising event planned for next year.
Cascadia Rising is a four-day simulation of what would happen in the event of a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake off our coast. Looking at the geological record, these have happened regularly every 200 to 300 years and the last one was in 1700 - we are seriously overdue for a big one. We are looking at a complete crash of infrastructure, serious damage to Seattle, Portland and Victoria and Vancouver, BC. There is planning in place for some counties to deal with an event of this scope but it has never been put to the test. Our county would coordinate with an emergency center in Spokane, WA - far to the East and out of harms way. The only issue is that communications will be down - forget cell service for at least a week or more. Amateur Radio is posed to fill the gap so they are recruiting local hams to participate. This will be interesting to say the least...
Early bedtime tonight as I will be doing the store shopping run tomorrow - the person who normally does this is working with the POS system at the store and their time is better spent doing that. Meeting up with Lulu for lunch at the Welding Rodeo and then back home again.
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