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Originally Posted by Far-L
I have two good reasons.
One, when the big earthquake hit California, I was in a place called Santa Cruz very close to the epicenter. It is a coastal town with really only one highway going in and out of it. That, plus many other roads around it were destroyed. That meant a run on grocery stores and basic necessities became scarce fast. That coupled with the fact that people were dying under rubble and people were upset more could not be done faster to save or find them meant agitation set in very quickly.
That meant the threat of violence set in very quickly. Society was upended and you would be amazed how fast even a town of mellow affluent old hippies and young surfers and university students becomes so feral. Ready to fight. Ready to rape. Ready to kill. Humanity can be more beastly than any beast. Think of what went down during Katrina, much of which is still not published.
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I was in California for Loma Prieta too. We went without power for four days. It's amazing how quickly everything in your fridge goes bad with no power. We had no phones either of course. No power also means no restaurants and no stores - we couldn't even leave the area because there was no place to get gas... You could only go as far as your gas tank allowed.
I lived in an apartment back then. We all had a big BBQ and cooked up what little meat we had. The next few days it was all canned goods.
But no one walked around threatening people. I find it hard to believe it was any different in freaking Santa Cruz.