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Rent a storage unit.
The problem as I see it for you city dwellers is going to be the difficulty of trying to isolate yourself, the rapid spread of the disease due to the concentration of the population and international points of entry, the loss of services (no electricity, water, sewer, or even trash disposal), spread of secondary illnesses after the failure of services, inability to acquire food, potable water, etc. (or to live off the land, unless you like gutterwater, rat, and potentially infected pigeons), numerous criminal gangs who will come take what they want or burn your building down if you are too much trouble, the difficulty of evacuating should you decide to do so due to saturated transportation nodes, fuel limitations, breakdown of mass transit, roving criminal elements, scavenging drug addicts who have lost their primary supply source (who do you think was responsible for the attacks and attempts on hospitals after Katrina?), dispersal of the remainder of the city population, etc. This is compounded by the fact that you live in a known extreme danger area from seismic disturbances.
Do you REALLY have to live there? I am sure that it is beautiful, and very trendy, but there is a price to be paid for that.
If you decide to continue living there, you better have a really good plan to evacuate at first notice, ahead of the disease and human wave, and to relocate to an area where you have better odds.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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