Last month’s earthquake near Gloucester and Marblehead has once again raised the issue of how vulnerable New England is to a repeat occurrence. Here are a couple of facts for you to consider:
• Believe it or not, the Northeast US is earthquake country – while it does not have the high frequency of earthquakes of California, the Northeast has experienced damaging earthquakes in the past and they will occur again in the future.
• The Northeast has a long history of earthquakes. From when the Pilgrims felt their first earthquake in 1638 up through a pair of damaging earthquakes (magnitude) that occurred in 1940 near Ossipee, NH. And since 1975 moderate size earthquakes have occurred in Central New Brunswick, central NH, northern NY State and Quebec.
There is nothing as frustrating as the delays caused by equipment failure. They always seem to occur at the most inopportune times –usually in the middle of a big project. Throw out your deadlines. Throw out your schedule. Call the subcontractors that were supposed to start tomorrow, and tell them to sit tight for a week. Everything is on hold until you can get that equipment back up and running. While there is no way around random equipment failure, it is a lot easier to handle when you have the insurance to help cover the costs.
