FEMA preparing for major event on the New Madrid?

[999]

Why would FEMA buy 140,000,000 meals for 7,000,000 survivors if they didn't know something was up?

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=eaea338540a0aea155a48a650a077352&tab=core&_cview=0

[Mizar]

Yep, noticed that everyone awake in that area should be going shopping for groceries this week.
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[slim2none]

If nothing else, this makes me question the quantity, as that would be two meals daily for 7 million peeps  for a period of ten days.

Lots more people in the NMSZ area, I'm gonna guess roughly 5 times that or 35 million people (all depending on how large an area is included in the count, and of course increased severity of a quake/quakes would make the numbers/area larger). 

I've read recently that Mountain House was being hit big time for purchases by 'a government agency' not long ago, limiting their onhand stock for a while.  Maybe this is to be a supplement to the Mountain house purchase?

And as to the ten day supply - the 3 huge quakes that hit in 1811-12 were stretched over a 7 week period, so a 10 day supply of anything is optimistic at best IMO.

In fairness, I don't think FEMA or any other organization could adequately prepare for all needs in event of a huge quake, much less a series of such.

Let's hope individuals are prepared/preparing on their own as Mizar suggested.

[cobalt]

"Great Central U.S. Shake Out"


http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/157159-white-house-readies-us-shake-out-to-prepare-citizens-for-earthquakes

[slim2none]

What luck!  A 3.3 mag quake showing up in Western Kentucky, just-in-time for the exercises!

11/04/22  16:41:49  37.15N  85.02W 4.9  3.3M   WESTERN KENTUCKY

Go figger

 

[cobalt]

The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut

Today, April 28, 2011 at 10:15 a.m. CDT

http://www.shakeout.org/centralus/