2012 – The 11 Worst Places For Your Family To Be

If the Sumerian Nibiru Prophecy, Nostradamus’ Doomsday, or any of the other End of the World scenarios others predict could happen in the 2012 Doomsday actually come to pass, you’d better make sure that you and your family are as far away as possible from the following places on 21 December 2012.

A City
On 21 December 2012 you and your family should not be in a large city, and particularly not in a tall building. For one thing, in a strong earthquake tall buildings have a tendency to fall over, but even if they remain standing they are really just concrete coffins.
If you are in a city affected by any of the likely 2012 scenarios it will be struck with virtually immediate loss of power, water, gas and land-based telecommunications. Cellular networks are also vulnerable, and even if they survive the initial event they won’t continue to operate forever.

What’s more storage of survival items in sufficient quantities is difficult in apartments where it’s often hard enough trying to find a place for the vacuum cleaner. Experience has shown that even in the most civilised cities the breakdown of law and order will also be very fast in cities. Within hours of the Great New York Power Outage, and the Rodney King riots in LA mob rule was the order of the day in large parts of the two of the most modern cities on Earth. Desperate (unprepared) survivors, alone and in groups, will comb the streets and buildings in search of food, water and weapons – and in this situation a family group, especially one which has young children is extremely vulnerable. Even if you manage to survive the disaster in your apartment or office, sooner or later you will need to come out in search of food and water – and they’ll be waiting. Or you’ll need to defend yourself against them when they come to your place.

The suburbs are only slightly safer. You and your neighbours could band together for safety in numbers, and houses are more likely to come through an earthquake in better shape than high-rise buildings. On the other hand, they are more at risk if there are floods, hurricanes or magma showers. And houses are a lot harder to defend than a high-rise building, where you can at least block the stairs, and shut the gates (the elevators won’t be working).

But sooner or later the same problems will come up. You’ll to get need water and food from somewhere – but the pipes will be dry and the supermarket will have been cleaned out days before. And maybe you’ll find that your neighbours aren’t so friendly anymore either – especially when their kids start dying of thirst and they know you’ve still got a nice little supply in the basement.


Coastal Areas
A lot of the scenarios we talk about feature flooding and tsunami. Coastlines will the first hit, and will be hit hardest. Your escape options towards safer areas inland are also likely to be severely affected by the millions of other people fleeing in the same direction at the same time.


Geothermal Areas
Anywhere where volcanic activity happens (or has ever happened before) before should be avoided like the plague. A number of possible cataclysmic events could trigger the re-eruption of existing volcanoes or create new ones, anywhere magma zones are present. Most Geological Survey maps clearly indicate volcanic areas. Stay out! So it would be advisable to be well clear of Yellowstone National Park, Valles Calders, New Mexico and Long Valley in California. Both places are simmering super-volcanoes, ready to blow. Dormant Super volcanoes also exist in Russia, New Zealand and Indonesia.You should also be wary of places where there are natural hot springs, even if there doesn’t seem to be a volcano around the place. Hot springs are heated by magma close to the surface, and could easily become a new volcanic vent.


Deserts and Arid Areas
Water is clearly the major problem here, for two reasons:

• Lack of water for drinking and agriculture


• Flash flooding which occurs along dry river beds and salt pans (which were all once lakes!). Deserts tend to have sands and soils which do not absorb rainfall.Don't go anywhere near a desert if you can help it.

Along Disaster Escape Routes from cities
Desperate people fleeing the loss of their own homes and loved ones do not respect private property, and will take what they need. You can try and defend what’s yours, but the odds will never be in your favour.

Areas which do not support agriculture, hunting and fishing
In the long-term your survival depends on living off the land. If you are in a barren place this is impossible and you will not live much beyond the last of your stores.

Fault Lines
Earthquakes happen along fault lines, which are the boundary lines of tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust. NEO impact, and planetary alignment are just two scenarios which could create massive quakes along multiple fault lines simultaneously. The Pacific Rim aka ‘The Ring of Fire’ is a giant chain of linked fault zones, peppered by volcanoes, ringing the entire Pacific Ocean. LA and San Francisco are both on massive fault zones, which suggests that neither of them will be smart places to be in December 2012. What’s more, as we know, earthquakes on the seafloor often create Tsunamis - making the low lying parts of islands in the Pacific risky places to be as well.


Pacific Islands
Most mountainous Pacific Islands including the Hawaiian Chain, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, Guam, Okinawa, Taiwan, are volcanic in origin. Any event which triggers massive earthquakes and Tsunamis could easily trigger volcanic eruptions too. On islands, even large ones, there will be no place to run, no place to hide.


River Valleys
Valleys were carved out by running water, and when you get rain you get more water. Large open river valleys can resemble plains like the Mississippi, but will still flood very rapidly if there’s enough rainfall. The entire Mississippi/Missouri basin could become the greatest of all the Great Lakes, and will be very difficult to escape from unless you have a boat or an aircraft.In the hills, river valleys are much narrower and steeper sided. And because of the difficulty in moving through mountainous terrain it’s very tempting to stay low and follow the rivers. But that’s probably a very bad idea in December 2012, because you could be washed away by a flash flood or buried by a mudslide without warning. So if you have to traverse mountain areas, be sure to stay on the ridgelines. By the way in winter Avalanches are also a hazard in this type of terrain. Also rapid global cooling brought on by a number of possible scenarios could mean that places that haven’t seen snow since the last ice age could get an unexpected dump of fresh powder. So in summary, be very careful of the mountains.


Unstable Hill Country
You should avoid steep, cut-up looking hill country which doesn’t have a good covering of large, well established trees. This type of landscape is the product of soft rock, deep but loose soils and frequent rainfall. Mudslides are common in this type of terrain, because of the weakness of the soil and can be massive, with whole hillsides collapsing. Often you’ll encounter this type of country in the foothills of large mountain chains, which create rainfall by trapping clouds against their high peaks and ridges. Which means this type of country is very prone to flash flooding, as small landslides create dams upstream. Water builds up behind the dams until the pressure gets too great for the soil to bear, and then it’s suddenly released in a massive wall of water moving down the valley at 90 mph. Over the years, particularly in Central and South America and China where terrain like this is very widespread, mudslides and flash floods have killed millions of people as whole towns and cities were swallowed up or washed away without warning.


Near a Nuclear Power Plant
One word – Chernobyl. Any of the massive disasters of the kind we’re expecting in 2012 could destroy a nuclear power plant, causing an explosive meltdown or destroying the protective casing around the reactor. Either way the result would be a release of high-intensity radioactivity into the atmosphere. The radiation would kill all living things nearby and the fall-out would affect an area of thousands of square mile. It would also be wise to steer well clear of factories producing toxic material. Destruction of these facilities will render wide areas uninhabitable, and would make local groundwater and river water downstream undrinkable for years.

The good news is that there are still plenty of other places that could be safe havens in the event of a 2012 cataclysm.Check out my other articles about the safest places to be in the USA, Europe and the rest of the world.

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