A 100-Year-Old Emergency Water Supply Put Out A Fire In SF This Week

A 100-Year-Old Emergency Water Supply Put Out A Fire In SF This Week

The five-alarm fire that destroyed a San Francisco apartment building this week put the city’s municipal water supply to the test: When water pressure began to dwindle, firefighters tapped an emergency system that was built below the city—all the way back in 1913.

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Another Reason For California To Be Scared Shitless: Earthquake Storms

Another Reason For California To Be Scared Shitless: Earthquake Storms

Worrying about the Big One is so passé. What you should really be worried about are the Big ONES. Yep: chances are, it won’t be a single large earthquake that takes California out, it will be multiple, large earthquakes. Or perhaps you’d prefer to use the official Sharknado-esque term: "earthquake storms."

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