Earthquakes
The earthquakes today rocked the building where I work pretty hard. From what people tell me, Santa Monica is some pretty loose soil or something, and if the Big One hits while I’m at work, it’s going to be bad.
I am going to make an emergency kit this weekend.
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Have you heard about this?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10117.htm
“In early 2001, at the start of Mr Bush’s presidency, his Government’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) warned that a hurricane hitting New Orleans would be the deadliest of the three most likely catastrophes facing America; the others were a massive San Francisco earthquake and, prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York.”
2 out of 3 so far…very ominous…I googled to find this article because we talked about it at work. The only difference was that my coworkers seemed to hear different things about the location of the earthquake in the quote above…some said it was a “California Earthquake” (which could mean just about anywhere) and some said it was a “Los Angeles Earthquake.” None had said a SF one as the article seems to specify.
Just remember that you are much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much more likely to die from a car accident or heart disease then you are from an earthquake.
That said, it can’t hurt to have supplies lying around.
I’m just never going to worry about an earthquake. If it hits, it hits.