Los Angeles Lying In Wait For Doom

LOS ANGELES – Cleanup crews and workers from two electric companies are still hard at work restoring power to Los Angeles residents and removing falling trees and other debris left behind by tornado like winds three days ago.

The day after the fierce windstorms left a small portion of Los Angeles looking like a warzone and leaving some 250,000 homes and businesses without electricity, the local electric companies promised they would have power restored within 48 hours.

96 hours later, the cleanup is still not completed and power has only been restored to a fraction of those who have had to content for the past three days living by candlelight and watching their items in the refrigerator go bad.

For years now scientists have warned Southern California and in particularly Los Angeles about a major disaster being inevitable. They even have a name for it. ‘The Big One’ those experts call it.

I for one hope this will never happen. In part because the image of Los Angeles being totally destroyed is a thought I can’t comprehend. And in part a massive disaster in Los Angeles would put the city in total doom.

Just looking at what transpired from the “small” wind disaster that just happened in Los Angeles and that only affected a small part of the city, already we (the city) are unable to adequately, quickly and proficiently deal with it.

Can you imagine an entire city of more than 10 million people with more than 10 million cars, no freeways, no electricity, streets blocked off by trees, no running water, toppled buildings, injured, leaking gas lines … the list is endless really, can you imagine that?

There is no way on this beautiful earth that anyone will be able to do anything to make the situation livable quickly, were a disaster of that magnitude to ever strike Los Angeles.

Should such disaster ever happen, it will be every Los Angelino for himself. During that time Los Angeles really will become ‘survival of the fittest’.

In 1994 Los Angeles was exposed for just a short while to what the city would be like during a real disaster when parts of freeway bridges were destroyed during the Northridge Quake.

Although most of the city was left intact by the powerful shaker, the collapse of just a few bridges was enough to send Los Angeles in a frenzy. Local streets were suddenly a chaos of none-moving cars, angry drivers and tooting horns.

No matter what side street you took trying to avoid the ‘traffic jam’, you were out of luck, for each street was packed with cars.

Imagine what would happen on a grand scale? Pure and utter chaos that’s what.

Experts warn time and again that Los Angelinos should have emergency kits handy in anticipation of the big one. That’s a noble, sentimental statement and nothing more.

In order to make it through a large scale disaster in Los Angeles, if you are lucky to survive it, you are basically forced to have a backpack filled with survival essentials strapped on your shoulders all the time anywhere you go.

If not, just considering that people in Los Angeles are always on the go and chances are good you won’t be near your ‘first aid kit’ when disaster strikes, now what?

The strong winds that wrecked havoc in parts of Los Angeles just a few days ago should serve as a reminder that you best be prepared to ‘survive’ on you own, however you do it.

A harsh reality that I don’t think has really hit home with many Los Angelinos who are fooling themselves in thinking the ‘Big One’ will never come and if it does they’ll be ready … sad reality is, they won’t be.

And neither will Los Angeles!

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