Burrito West Blog

With the disaster in Japan on everyone's minds, I can tell you people in Vancouver are giving some thought to earthquake-preparedness finally. It's a bit of a silver lining in all the terribleness, that it's making folks in BC think about what we will do when our big earthquake hits. Fortunately for us in Vancouver, we're not at risk of tsunami, which seems to be what caused most of the damage in Japan. Though on the flip side, our airport is about 10cm above sea level in an area that expected to basically liquify (everyone assumes that Richmond will be underwater completely, given the city was built on a flood plain of a river delta next to the ocean - so, don't move to Richmond), which seems like a problem when it comes to getting relief supplies to/from Vancouver. I'm not sure what the plan is to deal with that, perhaps bring everything in by float plane?

Anyway, Peter and I have had our disaster kit packed and ready for a few years now, though this does remind me to go replace some of the foodstuffs and maybe add to our water supply. Funny how easily we as humans can forget/ignore the dangerous conditions we live in, when we see no signs of it in our day-to-day life. Kind of like how we fail to change our behaviours to try to avert climate change feedback loops.