In case you haven’t noticed the incidence of major earthquakes is growing at an alarming rate.  First let me clarify what I mean by “major”  earthquakes because if you’ve ever been in any kind of ‘quake, be it “major” or “minor” you’ld probably remember it as at least a little scary if not totally piss-your- drawers frightening.

Earthquakes are referenced by numbers ranging from 0 to infinity, 0 being not noticeable and the largest ever measured at 9.5 being “Oh My GAWD, it swallowed the Lincoln!”  This scale was invented by a fellow named Dr. Charles Richter and by some accounts his mother gave birth during a Led Zepplin concert and it affected his whole life.

To get the train of thought back on track, there have been many more ‘quakes of larger or higher magnitude than ever before in  our history, just recently.  It looks like the numbers are even a little ridiculous there are so many.

(data gathered from the USGS and then averaged over time)

It looks like we could even double the number of ‘quakes in all of the magnitudes by the end of the year.  Now, are you beginning to get a little scared?

After a major earthquake, magnitude 7 and above, the amount of casualties and property damage is always horrifying.  We all saw what happened in Chile early in the year and in Haiti just a little while ago.  Because of the breakdown in communications, transportation, and basic human services there is total chaos everywhere .

So many people without water and food and without any aid for days if not weeks will naturally resort to anything to survive. Looting and robbing for food and water is common place sometimes even by the local officials.  Maybe that should be especially by local officials!

After the disaster the survivors have to not only deal with thirst and starvation but because of the lack of potable water, the staggering amount of corpses in all stages of putrefaction, and lack of sanitation facilities, sickness and disease starts to run rampant through the remaining population.

We have all seen this on the T.V. and the videos on YouTube and everywhere else, so I’m not going to include them here.  But just think for a moment,  if the ‘quakes are occurring more frequently and with more intensity, when will they start affecting you, personally?

Maybe they already have and you’re reading this from a hospital bed, but any person with half a brain (this should include a good share of my loyal fans) should be able to put two and two together and see that it is getting worse out there.  The matter of survival is not just something made up to sell dehydrated food and flashlight batteries, it is very real and happening right now!

You can scoff and shake your head when hearing someone talk about being prepared for emergencies. You don’t have time to think about that. You can just ignore them because nothing like that could ever happen to YOU.

You can just let all the facts and bitter truths about our precarious hold on life here on planet Earth go in one ear and out the other, but when the day comes, the day when all hell breaks loose around you, the day when you don’t have the faintest clue what to do to stay alive, my friends, family and I will be sitting comfortably in our secure, comfort zones waiting for time to rid us of all the idiots that wouldn’t listen.

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