>While the future of the West Coast’s earthquake early warning system is in peril from President Trump’s proposed budget cuts... >A scattering of buildings are now equipped with audible alarms that will give occupants an advance warning ranging from seconds to more than a minute before the shaking from a major earthquake begins. >There are even buildings wired to prevent people from being trapped in elevators after an earthquake. The system is set up to trigger elevators to stop at the nearest floor for occupants to escape as an announcement is simultaneously broadcast: “Earthquake! Earthquake! Earthquake! Drop, cover and hold on!” >[...] >Yet the rapid progress could all unravel if President Trump’s budget is approved. The Department of the Interior is proposing no funding for the system this year and “would end USGS efforts to implement the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system, suspending internal efforts and eliminating external funding to partners” such as Caltech, UC Berkeley, the University of Oregon and the University of Washington. >Seismologist Lucy Jones, who formerly worked for the USGS, said she imagines that such a decision would cripple the ShakeAlert program. >Ending federal involvement in the system would prompt scientists to leave the project, Jones said. The early warning program needs dozens of researchers continually improving the software, monitoring and operating the system, and installing and repairing seismic sensors, she said. >“We are on the cusp of it really making a difference here in Southern California,” Jones said in an interview. Without the USGS’ leadership, “it would have to start over from a very basic level.”
What, exactly, is the benefit in cutting this? It can save tons of lives and damage to property. Does Trump want to increase the injuries, deaths, and damages done by earthquakes?
California needs to fucking burn and I say this as a Socal local.
Brandon Mitchell
>earthquake What are the chances it can happen and what are the chances you can escape if it happens? If really big earthquake happens like every 100 to 200 years then can they pinpoint the exact location where it will happen, else it's pointless to run away, since it will affect a lot anyway and you might be close to epicenter or not.
Colton Price
Why does it matter when everyone here is too cheap to retrofit anyways?
Grayson Garcia
Sounds good to me. I hope he cuts all funding to CA
Isaac Baker
>What, exactly, is the benefit in cutting this? See: >Does Trump want to increase the injuries, deaths, and damages done by earthquakes?
Fuck California
Isaiah Cooper
good
california should pay for it themselves instead of being welfare queens like always. Also don't cite the BS statistics because they don't take into account things like "high state tax rebates" and military stationing.
Nicholas Cooper
...
Justin Bailey
They can increase their taxes and fund it themselves those selfish cunts.
Jeremiah Robinson
>implying trump read and studied any effects on his proposed budget cuts alarms? no that stupid food for the poor? nah healthcare? why am i paying for that more guns to israel? sounds like big money
Colton Hughes
OP I see no problem with this. In fact, after all of the protests and left leaning faggots in that state who voted for Hillary, the state deserves it. Fuck off California and fall into the ocean.
Robert Richardson
It's stupid to put alarms in every building. Just set up your cell phone networks to issue warnings. That elevator thing is a good idea though. I wish we had that.
Luis James
waste of money, we've spent billions upon billions over the last 50 years retrofitting existing buildings and totally over-engineering all new buildings. in fact theres a building in LA that has a slide that goes form the 60th floor to the 50th, its made of glass see bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36630113 you could be in that thing during a 9.0 quake and you would hardly notice anything happening. so do I think gaining ~1minute which is really really unlikely to be that long but for arguments sake lets be overly generous and say theres a 10 min warning. it doesn't matter it would only cause mass panic, likely leading to more people dying from being trampled than from dying from something earthquake related. so yes as a native califag, who still lives in the Bay Area I can say this is a HORRENDOUS waste of my tax dollars and should be shitcanned last year. fuck off and kys shill
Wyatt Adams
Lets see these fags think themselves out of this one.
>The largest Earthquake in a whole century is supposed to take place in just a few years
Jaxon Sullivan
Fuck California.
t. Californian
Joshua Young
Trump culling California.
A bad thing.
OP, pls.
Oliver Hill
Early detection is a meme t. geology major
Cooper Butler
And nothing of value would be lost.
Leo White
Surely all the mexicans will help pay for it.
John Allen
Learn to swim
Brandon Garcia
>Earthquake! Earthquake! I'd be shitting my pants. Also, I mostly see the alarm as providing a few seconds more than a minute of time. Sure, you can get out or something but 5-10 seconds might not do shit for dumbasses that panic and stay put.
Justin Ross
Trump is trying hard to reverse the demographic decline by killing shitlibs and mexicans.
Jaxson Cooper
>spend money on frivolous shit >complain trump doesnt give you enough money
Levi Bell
>What, exactly, is the benefit in cutting this? They (drumpf and his nwo masters) want to maximize the casualties when the "event" happens.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Lived here in Ca my whole only had two quakes that fucking mattered. Typical leftist spendthrift bullshit. Fix the fucking roads.
Ryder Morris
Better question is why can't California with all of their taxes afford this for itself? Why should the tax dollars from people in other states who experience earthquakes, yet do not have this system in place, pay for it? Should Californians pay for states with heavy snowfall to have sturdier roofs so they dont collapse? If the "Big One" hits California there is not a damn thing this early warning system will do but let people know their shit is about to be pushed in. The federal government cannot pay for everything and states along with their inhabitants need to start providing for their own without sucking on the teat of the feds.
Ethan Ortiz
Your only saying that because of the high ass amount of wet backs California has
Dylan Brown
What exactly is the reason that California, one of the largest economic giants in the world much less in this country, is so fucking poor it can't afford to have its own earthquake early detection and warning systems?
Easton Evans
Good, fuck California.
Xavier Lopez
You can't detect earthquakes early. It was earlier this decade when Italy tried to prosecute several seismologists for not being able to predict an earthquake that would end up killing like 50 people.
It's worthless to fund something that doesn't work. He should also defund Affirmative Action programs.
Aiden Miller
It has supposed to take place in a few years for decades now. The (((Big One))) is nothing more than a scare tactic to get companies to purchase more useless shit like earthquake alarms. No amount of technology will be able to save the state if it ever decides to hit.
Christian Collins
Because paying one undergrad geologist about 7.50$ an hour to stare at a fucking seismograph and hit a big red button to set off a few fucking sirens across a state is a bigger waste of money than they are willing to admit
Jacob Diaz
>implying the great communist state of California would spend the money required to maintain these systems on actual maintenance and not giving illegal spics an easier life on the backs of tax payers
Brandon Evans
They are announcing the death of your country. California will sink beneath the ocean after the nukes drop. They mean business.
Camden Morris
>earthquakes happen in California >implying saving the lives of Californians is a good thing
Kill yourself
Eli Campbell
>in California so the fuck what?
Brandon Walker
Why the fuck are federal dollars going toward that? Let the Good Ship Overspend sail off into the fucking Pacific already.
Luis Evans
>They >Fall of the worst part of the country is somehow significant in any way other than the rest of the country improving. Fucking beaner logic right their folks
Nicholas Perez
second this motion
Nicholas Gonzalez
>a bloo bloo muh federal funding >meanwhile let's pass a healthcare bill that costs 3x our revenue Fuck california
Isaiah Martin
Central Valley here. Perfectly fine with this, and if Trump proposed nuking Sacramento and the bay area that would be even better.
The warning system is absolutely worthless.
Bentley Hill
Fucking sperm on a bird? Sort yourself out, partner
Chase Gomez
Why does the federal government has to pay for a Cali-based system? Let Californians pay for it.
Samuel Price
I don't think Jerry Brown will actually sign that one into effect, although it wouldn't surprise me because afterall what's another 105 billion dollars a year :^)
Nathaniel Walker
40 million people, huge industries, and one of the largest economies in the world? Why would you want that?
Jayden Wilson
except your food.
enjoy importing everything in tin cans from Brazil and Germany from now on
Hudson Jones
>Talks about california >posts beautiful white women in a cornfield Ive been there and you damn well what im talking about.
Jace Bailey
It's all natural super bird vitality shampoo, Tex.
Jack Richardson
That's funny considering >I live in the South and have both the land to grow my own vegetables to sustain myself and also >The ability to hunt and raise my own meat Not all of us grew up in pampered ass subdivision some of us actually have the means to take care of our selves and actively do so. So no you enjoy your Brazilian and German canned goods faggot I'll be eating as fresh and local as it fucking gets
Cameron Brown
>Typical leftist spendthrift bullshit. Fix the fucking roads. Fucking this. Or buy me a new car. "Biggest state economy in the US" my ass. If you can't fund this you can't Calexit, corrupt Sacramento retards. Fug I hate California. t. yet another Bay Area user
p.s. this shit would never be for anybody but the rich yuppie shitbags anyway
Brandon Lee
No, burn in fucking hell. The only people I feel bad about are those of you California who haven't abdicated your values and see the filth readily surrounding you. Get out while you still can, I feel for you few.
Good. We need something to curb the Mexican invasion.
Nathan Martin
Not OP but I know all too well.
Christopher Murphy
appreciate it. We're working on our own personal calexit asap
Leo Gutierrez
"Salinas"
Jackson Fisher
I believe that's the point. I just wonder what the moments were that lead up to that photo? Get bored, walk outside, cum on bird?
Benjamin Wood
Fuck California. The entire state could sink into the ocean and America would only stand to gain. The state is full of nothing but worthless, welfare grubbing immigrants, non-English speakers, safe space universities, shithead libtards, antifa rats, treasonous celebrities and enough prison funding to solve the rapefugee """crisis""" It can be buried in the sea and democrats would never win another election again. A massive earthquake destroying California would be the surest sign of God's existence I would ever witness.
Angel Foster
> Lucy Jones
Lol get back in the kitchen you dumb slut
Nolan Baker
all i want to know is if you can set one of these earthquake detectors off with a subwoofer, and if so, how big do you have to go?
David Garcia
As opposed to old California which was just Cuban migrants from Florida, Richer Jews, The white bimbos looking for old rich Jew dick money, and all the drug dealers the world would ever need
Luke Allen
Amen
Juan Harris
>tfw Hollywoodfag I don't even care anymore just let me die already
Nathan Reed
Where will all the class act(not pedophile) characters actors go?! New York?
Angel Rivera
TRUMP used EARTHQUAKE on COMMIES ... it's SUPER EFFECTIVE
Noah Gonzalez
Here's hoping
Brody Bennett
Fuck off. Real New York is already full and dealing with the enigma that is NYC.
Austin Martin
>What, exactly, is the benefit in cutting this? More dead commies.
Landon Nguyen
Just saying last time I was there I went to Times Square again, this time it was filled with foreign characters at night begging for money if they they pose for a picture. Pretending to be Mickey, Superman, whatever the fuck. I blame the naked cowboy on that shit.
Cooper Sanders
As I said, real New York. Not NYC. Or Albany for that matter. Come upstate next time, not apologizing for them. Not sorry.
Cameron Ortiz
If Commiefornia's economy is as great as the libs say it is then they can fund it themselves
Aaron Lewis
No, I was actually shocked at the change of the area that I knew. I'm sure you know more about in inner workings, but as a person who use to visit, just the outside(mainstream) of it was fucked just within a few years. It was exactly like the Hollywood pedophiles in costumes begging for money.
Tyler Morales
Good. Fuck that state. Hope it becomes rubble.
Benjamin Collins
Poor people should starve. Don't breed em if you can't feed em.
Robert Cook
>What, exactly, is the benefit in cutting this? Killing Californians for free is like a dream.
Ian Fisher
>40 million people No, it's 40 million Californians. Completely different.
Eli Cox
>but as a person who use to visit, just the outside(mainstream) of it was fucked just within a few years. Agreed. It came on fast and even I are still dealing with the shock of it all. I limit my visits accordingly to this day. I just get pissed because we get a bad rap because of the degenecry they try to push up north.
Nolan Mitchell
HAHAHA YO ARE THE IDIOT WITH SMALL SKULL YOU ARE CALI STINK DOG YOU LAUGH MY ASSHOLEHAHA HAHAHAHAHAH DEADBEAT CALIFAG 2014 CALIFORNIA STEAL WEST US CLAY GIVE IT BACK YOU MUST GIVE BACK OUR RIGHTFUL CLAY TEXAS+ARIZONA+COLORADO+UTAH=FUCK YO UCALIFORNIA WHERE IS THE CLAY earthquake will kill 400 californian cities FUCK YOU CALIFORNIA YO ARE THE SHIT STATE YOU LIVE IN THE YUPPIE ZOO ANIMALS. HAHAHAHAHHAHA DEAR CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR, I SHIT FROM THE HIGHEST CHIMNEY TO YOUR MOUTH. YOU ARE THE GAY GOVERNER.NO FUNDING FOR YOU! I WILL DIE FOR WEST AMERICA. I DO NOT FEAR THE LIBERAL YUPPIE WIZARD. I WILL NOT AFRAID fuck los anglese fuck sacromento a n sandjoser fuck you too san dieago, califaggot ass...FALL INTO OCEAN texas has wisdom of the falcon. california have dimwit of donkey ass GO BACK TO YUPPIE SHITHOLE....HAHAHAHAHAHHA FUCK U CALIFORNIA
Noah Collins
You know what? i live in Calif and the fucking liberal assholes would rather spend over 5 BILLION DOLLARS on a bullet train that we neither NEED OR WANT. Its already MILLIONS OVER BUDGET and not a SINGLE TRACK has been laid. 5 billion dollars for bullshit...so I figure Calif can go fuck itself. Fuck off with your Drumpf bullshit please. Thanks.
Chase Nguyen
We can just be a separate state, the american economy can suffer without us.
>hur durr, then we'll attack you to force us to rejoin then why did you want us to leave in the first place?
Hopefully we don't become a part of Mexico or Canada.
Colton Ward
>early detection
So like never? Because why should the rest of the US fund the Californian problem? That should be out of your own state budget.
Asher Ross
So what you are saying is 8 years?
Isaac Long
How ? Aren't these system mostly automated stations with a few people looking at the graphs ?
Andrew Price
>be me >lifetime California resident >see this >realize that nothing of value would be lost
Joshua Gonzalez
>then why did you want us to leave in the first place? So we can attack you.
Ayden Scott
Ironic thing is, if they'd get rid of illegals, there would be enough money for them to fund their systems
Lincoln Smith
>earthquake early warning system i wonder who's behind this imaginary system
Liam Williams
I thought californians wanted to leave the Union. They aren't expecting Trump to keep giving them money for their earthquake detection systems when they leave, are they?
Josiah Ortiz
>food for the poor? nah lol what do you mean? oh you are one of those that buid the story of trump ending wheels on meals right? You know that thing that is mostly paid by donations and that after trump cut stuff from it the donations basically increased tenfold.
Benjamin Davis
even if you did attack us, we'd get support from other countries, and other gay liberal states would want to leave and all that hippie shit will start over again
so either way you are fucked faggot I bet you're from some worthless state that makes offshore Chinese products, fail
Jace Thompson
Getting rid of illegals (and frankly, the majority of LEGAL shitskins too) would solve a hell of a lot of the societal problems that liberals complain about.
Aiden Stewart
Socal deserves the biggest, most destructive earthquake ever.
>"lets build a giant city in a desert!"
Fuck commiefornia. (Norcal is co
Luis Powell
CA can use the Paris Agreement funds they played towards this.
Daniel Miller
oh no not Commiefornia. 2 days ago i found out $1180 had been stolen from my debit card. When i traced he payments they all come from Cali. I dont even live in your country and somehow you manage to fuck me.
