Oregon Needs To Be More Like Japan

[Mulboyne]

Register-Guard: Legends and lessons: Japan teaches its history with disasters and taps its technological prowess to prepare for the next big one
...Japan is widely regarded as the best-prepared country for tsunamis and earthquakes in the world, with a vigilance that combines the reflections of the past with the technology of today - at a cost of billions of dollars...When geologists and emergency managers in Oregon consider the peril that faces our own coast, they frequently point east. As geologist George Priest puts it, "We need to be like the Japanese."...It's daunting to think that people in the United States could ever "be like the Japanese" in preparing for earthquakes and tsunamis. But there are lessons to learn from this ancient country...more...

[Charles]

The hell with that, Oregon needs to be more like the USA.

[GuyJean]

The hell with that, Oregon needs to be more like the USA.

No thanks. I'll take my euthanasia and medicinal marijuana over the Christian Exodus anyday..

Don't know what the Nuke Israel site's about as it's blocked by my company.. Is that an Oregon based movement?

GJ

[Charles]

Don't know what the Nuke Israel site's about as it's blocked by my company.. Is that an Oregon based movement?

Portland neonazis.

[GuyJean]

Don't know what the Nuke Israel site's about as it's blocked by my company.. Is that an Oregon based movement?

Portland neonazis.

All five of them? North-eastern Oregon is the home of the cracker-land.. Most of Portland is ganja smokin' youthin-Asians.

GJ

[den4]

hmmm....when I was still a gaijin in japan, my contacts kept telling me that Japan's superior earthquake disaster preparations were so good that when a big jishin like the one that hit San Francisco came, they would have no problems...then Kobe came yup....they were prepared all right