Retrofit

Not everything has to be an amazing exceptional indicator that reveals the arrival of the Crisis with  undeniable importance and absolute precision . Sometimes it's enough to simply be a solution to a problem that has been put off for too long.

It was fully twenty years ago that the Northridge Earthquake struck, killing 57, of which 16 were at the Northridge Meadows apartment.  The building's first floor was flattened when supports couldn't handle the stress from the quakes.  It would be reasonable to think that options for preventing anything like that from happening again would be an immediate goal. That was back in the Third Turning, though: Weak institutions often meant that people were expected to handle problems without pressure or input from the government.

Fortunately, there haven't been any similarly deadly earthquakes in the last twenty years.  There has been no rush to do anything...until now. During the Fourth Turning, there is real support for fixing problems like this. The city is, now,  going to push toward requirements to retrofit similar buildings, so this can't possibly happen again.