72 hours? Maybe if you're in the middle of butt-fuck-nowhere Saskatchewan with prairie all around and roads. If the big one hits Vancouver there's not help getting in for a month and then likely only in Vancouver-proper. We have two airports that can handle big planes, and the one in Richmond will be a seaport after an earthquake. Maybe Abbotsford will be OK, but I'm not sure what it's built on. Roads? Through the mountains? Yeah, they'll be covered in multiple land slides. Help from the South? The US will be busy with Seattle. Army? Nope, none in BC, not reg force anyway. The Navy is on Vancouver Island. And let's be honest, we don't have enough soldiers to do anything in a metropolitan area the size of Vancouver. 72 hours? more like 72 days.
72 hours? Maybe if you're in the middle of butt-fuck-nowhere Saskatchewan with prairie all around and roads. If the big one hits Vancouver there's not help getting in for a month and then likely only in Vancouver-proper. We have two airports that can handle big planes, and the one in Richmond will be a seaport after an earthquake. Maybe Abbotsford will be OK, but I'm not sure what it's built on. Roads? Through the mountains? Yeah, they'll be covered in multiple land slides. Help from the South? The US will be busy with Seattle. Army? Nope, none in BC, not reg force anyway. The Navy is on Vancouver Island. And let's be honest, we don't have enough soldiers to do anything in a metropolitan area the size of Vancouver. 72 hours? more like 72 days.