Those Who Believe and Those Who Don't (3)

The talks with the Japanese side ended that day.

I told them what would happen, what would collapse, and where problems would arise.

The countermeasures were up to them to figure out.

Natural disasters, unlike terrorist attacks, can’t be prevented.

So they had to assume it would happen and do everything they could to minimize the damage.

If the earthquake were a year or so away, they could at least reinforce the buildings, but it was happening next week.

To minimize the damage, they needed to choose evacuation sites.

And shut off the gas in places where explosions would occur.

Drain the fuel from gas stations that would explode and redirect it elsewhere.

That was about it, aside from moving hazardous materials to safer locations and evacuating hospital patients...