In Chet Snow's book, Mass Dreams of the Future, he writes this about the conditions he saw after the pole shift. Prior to that he had been in Arizona, where their community had to abandon their log cabin and live in tents because of the constant earth movements.
There are several thousand people living in this valley (north of Edmonton, Alberta). There are only a few really permanent structures and these are of a geodesic dome design. .Most everyone lives in lightweight collapsible buildings just one story tall. They're made of plastic or synthetic fabric stretched around aluminum or wooden poles, depending on how big they are. Sort of like Mongolian yurts. The domes are covered with an aluminum-foil metallic skin. There were still quite serious earth movements, nothing like what we experienced in the Southwest, to be sure, but still enough that most people feel better about living in these yurt-like collapsible structures, which can fall down without doing appreciable damage.
Offered by Milly.