A hurricane is a pathetic joke compared to a megathrust earthquake. Plus you have at least some notice - if you're willing to do an all-nighter (and possibly sleep in your car) even if you plan poorly and you're in the Keys/South Florida, you can still probably get to relative safety.Bitches should be proud to be associated with the strongest force of nature known to man, not much higher a compliment, is there?
Most of that footage of traffic is what it looks like when everyone plans to get on the road during comfy daylight hours. I left for Alabama at 9pm and while the backwoods of Southern GA/AL were hilariously busy for that time of night, everyone was still going 5-10 over. Or in the case of the myriad Florida plates parked in front of lit-up local smokies, county Sheriffs, state police, and highway patrol, 10-15 over.
You live along one of those rivers coming down off Mt. Rainier, and there's a real one, you're fucking dead. You aren't outrunning a lahar. You're in SF when "The Big One" hits, you don't get a week to board your sh!t up, collect your magic boar and your daddy's watch that he wore in his ass until he got dysentery. You're lucky if you're close enough to the door to get outside, and if you're not at home, your sh!t might be on fire before you can even see it, if 1906 or whenever is any indication.
You live in tornado country and you don't have something below ground, and you get hit by a real one, it's over. You and everything else going 200-300mph are getting turned into microparticles. They'll find your driver's license and it'll look like someone fed it through a broken dot-matrix printer loaded with pink ink.
I'm going with strongest force of nature known to man is black hole or, in the context of Earth, Chicxulub-sized sh!t inbound. I'm talking small mountain ranges getting tubed.
