In fact, Doughton barely scratches the surface of what region-wide resilience planning will likely entail or the obstacles it could encounter from businesses, not to mention politicians and an electorate incapable of thinking long term. There are discussions of why our building codes are shit, home retrofits, having emergency plans, and isn't it nice that state planners are coming up with integrated disaster plans and some of our infrastructure is ready for the Big One? But we know all that. But sadly, on the larger political implications of living atop a seismic time bomb, Doughton offers no novel insights. Here Doughton regales readers with tales of a Puget Sound tsunami and more drowned forests, victims of Seattle's fault. She very vividly describes why Seattle and the resonant basin it rests on is one of the last places you want to be when Cascadia or the city's own fault ruptures.
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