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Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

Another earthquake just shook the San Fernando Valley. 3.5, out of Chatsworth.

I am not moving to that Valley. And I am buying my 72 hour emergency kit next week.

Posted by Loren (Member # 9539) on :

I had a really funny rejoinder to the topic title that I have decided to self-censor on the grounds that it was mildly inappropriate.

So instead, I'll just say that we're glad you're okay, Sara. [Smile]

Posted by brojack17 (Member # 9189) on :

I'll repeat what I have said about natural disasters before. I do not want to live where there are earthquakes. I live in "Tornado Alley" and would take that any day over an earthquake. I can hide from a tornado. You can run from Hurricanes and go to higher ground in a flood.

Earthquakes scare me.

Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :

Chatsworth, huh?

Probably just my dad turning over in his grave again. [Eek!]

I can think of several things that have happened just recently that would make him do that.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

3.5? Piffle. A 3.5 doesn't usually do anything worth noticing, even at the epicenter.

Chicken. [Wink]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I didn't feel it at all this time.

And yeah, I barely even wake up for a 3.5. I definitely don't bother to get out of bed.

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

Hey, I was bread to battle hurricanes, not tectonic dance parties!

My roommate was actually in the valley and didn't feel a thing. I felt it though!!!!!!!!!

I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey. Just say no to drugs. [Razz]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

You were bread? Who's on drugs now? [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Not drugs, yeast. [Wink]

And I know I'm taller (not to mention heavier) than you, porce, but "turkey" is just mean. *lower lip wobble*

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

It was a reference to a Partnership for a Drug Free America commericial! I quote those things pretty much all the time.
"I learned it from watching you, dad, I learned it from watching YOU." That particular quote was from the one with the older kid always trying to get the younger kid to smoke a joint, and he kept calling him chicken. And thus the witty and courageous response.

Bred? Oh.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

Hawaii just had a 5.3 a couple of days ago. It made one of my mom's vases jump off a shelf, but no one was hurt that I know of.

They're also having minor hurricane issues. It was just downgraded to a tropical storm though, and the worst of it should miss the island. Dodged two bullets, I guess.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Earthquakes AND hurricanes?

Now that's just mean. Who did what to Mama Nature? [Wink]

Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :

72 hour kit

Makes a great present!

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

Wow - sure seem to be lots of earthquakes this week...

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

I've felt a pair of 3.4s in the last month - both of which had an epicenter less than 5 miles away. A little rumble and you're done.

I'd much rather have the slight chance that a serious earthquake will occur than a yearly Death Storm season. A whole season, every year, when you expect the wind to destroy huge areas! How anyone thinks that's a good deal, I don't know.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by MightyCow:
I'd much rather have the slight chance that a serious earthquake will occur than a yearly Death Storm season. A whole season, every year, when you expect the wind to destroy huge areas! How anyone thinks that's a good deal, I don't know.

Exactly! I've lived in SoCal for over 25 years. In that time, there have been two earthquakes of note, and only one that did serious widespread damage. (Even that one did not harm me or my family directly, but I do know people whose homes were damaged irreparably by it.)

In that same time period, HOW many huge hurricanes have there been in say, Florida? And the devastation the bad ones wreak is many times worse than even the really bad quake here. (So far, anyway. I realize that we may still get a bigger quake, but they've been downgrading the likelihood of that the last few years, IIRC.)

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

Yeah, but a hurricane's not gonna make my state fall off into the ocean. Good luck with that. [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

When an earthquake makes any state fall into the ocean, I'll know I'm in the middle of a B-movie.

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

All the worlds a B-movie, and I'm the director's cousin's friend's little brother who go a bit part with no lines.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Then why are you still talking?

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

Sick burn!

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Yeah, I grew up in earthquake country and it doesn't phase me much. For one thing, you can be, to my mind, more prepared for it-- they build most buildings (that are up to code, in CA) to be earthquake safe-ish now. Everyone has cabinet locks and bolts large items of furniture to the walls (well, everyone who thinks about it, which is most of the people I know.) You can be aware of what major fault lines you live near and what damage has been in similar housing in the area in the past and plan accordingly.

I was terrified of lightning storms and wind when we lived in Dallas. They were like no lightning or wind I had ever been in, and although I knew statistically my chance of a tornado in the middle of a city, or being struck by lightning in a building with lightning rods, was very slim, it still terrified me. *shudder*

I think we're always less afraid of the natural disaster we grow up with.

(Now, fire and mudslides are the things to REALLY be afraid of in CA-- but again, if you stay away from certain areas you can at least avoid the mudslides...)

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by rivka:
3.5? Piffle.

My Grandma said "piffle" a lot! I don't think I've heard that in years.

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

It makes me think of the Berenstain Bears books. Papa Bear used to say it all the time.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

It's a great word. I use it IRL too. [Big Grin]