You’ve leased or purchased a wide open mobile building from a local mobile / modular brokerage and need to install some offices to get your staff working and your project on track. You basically have two options: build your own stick built walls to your design or have a third party install a modular wall …
THINGS WE PREPARE FOR: Camping. Retirement. Traveling. THINGS WE DON’T PREPARE FOR: Earthquakes Why is that? Could it be the classic syndromes of: “out of sight, out of mind”; “That can’t happen here!”; or, “If it’s going to be so big, we won’t survive anyway, so why prepare?” I think this is one of the …
March 26, 2011. 2:46 PM local time. Location is 62 miles off the northern shore of the Island of Honshu, Japan, and nineteen miles beneath the earth’s surface. The tension between the massive Pacific Plate and the colossal North American plate (this is not a typo – see the Tectonic Plate Map here) is at its breaking …
Scientists, geologists, politicians, and just about every one else in between have been highly focused on the Cascadia Subduction Zone for the past several years – and rightly so. It poses a tremendous risk to the well being of the Pacific Northwest. But lurking right beneath our own feet here in the Portland area, are …
Raise your hands…. who here has (consciously) been through an earthquake. Okay, one that really shook the place – not one that is reported two days later and you say, “oh, yeah”, but one that you know you’re in an earthquake. Things are popping, shaking, and rattling. Okay, so quite a few of you. One …
With the recent release of the hit blockbuster movie, San Andreas, there has been some discussion in the media about the reality of the movie and if any of it could actually happen. Since its release on May 29th, news outlets around the country have been interviewing geologists and seismic experts to get to the …
Seems that this is a question for the ages as known history’s first broaching of this question came up after a significant earthquake in Greece in the year 373 BC. Folk lore and written history both indicate that rats, weasels, snakes, and centipedes all made tracks for the proverbial hills several days before an earthquake …
It’s more than just a rhetorical question, it’s one that a lot of folks are probably wondering. Why front three or four thousand bucks, or more, to have some strangers work on your home; work, that may or may not have any beneficial purpose in our lifetime? Think about it. You’re going to write a …
In 2012, impressed by similar emergency preparedness / response programs he had seen in the Seattle area, former Portland mayor, Sam Adams, implemented the BEECN Program in the Portland area, part of PBEM – Portland Bureau of Emergency Management. What does BEECN stand for? Basic Earthquake Emergency Communication Node – pronounced, BEACON.
If there’s anything that I’ve learned living in the PNW for the last forty two years, it’s that no matter how prepared you think you are, it’s never really quite good enough. Camping in mid summer, only to find evening temps can drop to close to freezing. Snow falling in the mountains as late as …
