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BonesMS:

--- Quote from: teartracks on August 24, 2011, 05:50:18 PM ---


You're right Bones.  In the face of the danger you were in (and many others when disasters occur)  fear follows and it's okay.  I'm glad you're doing well. 

tt


--- End quote ---

Thanks, TT.

Ironically, I haven't felt any aftershocks in my home area.....yet.  Hard to predict.

Bones

bearwithme:
Hope all is well Hops. Earthquakes are crazy things but I've learned to embrace them and to be prepared.  I'm from Los Angeles.  So I'm Earthquake trained and the only thing they do now is surprise me.  They don't really bother me all that much.  I grew up during all the bad ones and my house has been through all of them as well:  Whittier Narrows, Northridge, Sylmar, and more!! And it is still standing solid, as am I.  Shaken but standing.

I think earthquakes are worse for those who don't experience them that often.  They do less damage and cause less deaths (statistically speaking) than hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms and floods.  Only because of the latter disasters being so prevalent around the globe.  Also, Los Angeles has been retrofitted beyond retrofitted.  Every major city should follow suit.

I've learned to be friends with earthquakes by keeping this in mind:

Rule No. 1:  They do not crescendo.
Rule No. 2:  They do not crescendo.
Rule No. 3:  They do not crescendo.
Rule No. 3:  When you first feel one, remember Rules 1 through 3 and stay away from large shelves and windows, regardless: don't run outside.

The 8.7 (or was is 8.5?) in San Francisco in the late 80's was bad.  Most lives were saved because people knew it started out bad and reacted.  The Nimitz Freeway collapsed during the world series and killed so many people.  That is the worst part, that a double-decker freeway was allowed to be built in th midst of serious fault activity and was could not take the jolt of a quake larger than 7.5 (or something like that).

No matter where you live, people have their beef with natural disasters.  I'll take earthquakes over hurricanes and tornadoes, floods and ice storms...but that's just me...


Bear.

sKePTiKal:
Yah - for me, the frightening thing about earthquakes is there isn't an early warning system. Nothing at all to signal an immanent change in our basic environment. (sort of like Nmoms...)

On the other hand - 24/7 weather channel - even if one is disciplined enough to only pay attention to the information, still exposes one to the doomsday sensationalism; the conveyance of emotions - fear, panic, it's the end of the world... this time I'm fighting it off. One can't make decent decisions from that place, because one is mostly reacting... instead of assessing and choosing... [that "one" being moi]. From what I've seen of Isabelle, some years ago - there was absolutely more damage on the mainland from tornados spawned by the 'cane... than there was wind damage on OBX. We're not vulnerable to flood surge - at least not in the history of FEMA (which isn't saying much). The risks seem lower, by sitting tight, knowing my situation and the tools at hand, versus all the unknowns of hitting the road.

This morning's job is to calculate how much propane the generator will burn an hour... and call the propane company. Check in with my neighbors... see who is staying; going. Then I'm going to be first in line, when my favorite beach rd drive-in opens up and I'm going to help him clean out his fridge/coolers of fresh fish... or whatever he has left. They'll board up by the end of the day and lift everything at least 4 ft off the floor.

BONES: not sure which suburb you're in, but I hope you're at least on the second floor!! The path of this storm is going to bring you more problems ...

Hopalong:
thanks, PR...
I do not feel panicked or frightened.

I just didn't LIKE it and it felt scary. Proportionately scary.
We were all very lucky here, though.

Don't like hurricanes, either...but I love a good thunderstorm

xo
Hops

Hopalong:
Hi Bear,
Meant to thank you for your post, as well.
Good for you for being shaken but not stirred!

I worked in Northern California and have cousins in Pasadena, and as
much as I love that amazing state, I honestly would probably not want to live
there.

Stories and histories of quakes just have a primitive terror, even
when rationally, you're certainly right about the relative risks.

I'm a triple Taurus... :D  Something about the earth moving under my feet...
Not that I know anything else or care about astrology, but given
my passion for dirt, and mountains, somehow made sense to me!

We did run outside at my workplace, maybe that was foolish. But it's an old, one-story
building. I usually think that the folks in the street are perhaps in greater danger from
shattered glass and other large things falling on them.

At any rate, my body took me out the door (I was sitting beside an open
door to the outside at the moment, enjoying the open air) before my brain
got involved!

Hugs and hope you're well, too--
Hops
to fall....

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