The San Andreas Fault is an earthquake-producing formation that runs for 750 miles through California, producing often devastating shocks.
Does Virginia's form of local government have its own systemic San Andreas Fault, quietly waiting for a cataclysmic reckoning at some future date?
That was the primary question tackled by a panel of local government authorities speaking Friday at a Virginia Bar Association conference.
The meeting took place was in Williamsburg, where Virginia's system of local government had its colonial roots.