“Regional planners project that the refineries ringing northern Contra Costa County could erupt, wildfires could rip through the lush Marin forestlands, and Delta levees could crumble, flooding every town from Rio Vista to Sacramento,” writes The San Francisco Chronicle.

“Hospitals and morgues would be so overwhelmed with up to 6,000 dead and 30,000 injured that the dead would have to be stacked into refrigerator trucks to turn morgues into makeshift clinics for the living.”