About a week ago, I saw a guy on MSNBC predicting that there would be a major earthquake on the 21st. He was, apparently, some sort of geologist. Well, I believe everything anyone who claims to be a geologist says, so he must be right. The guy was very vague on which fault this eathquake would take place, or where it would be centered, except to say that it would be in California, so of course it must be nearby me. Isn’t hysteria fun?
If there’s electricity after the quake, I’ll update you on my status.
~Kyla
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
My supplies are all ready (of course, they’re at home and I’m at work). If it hits, it’s been nice knowing y’all! If it doesn’t, I want you all to know that the high in the Bay Area today will be in the low 70s…
Neener neener neener!
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” I Spy Ty.
Woo Hoo! Been waiting for this one for a while! Bring it on!!! This should be good for a couple days off work, right? I don’t have any supplies, but I’ve got neighbors with supplies that I can murder if I need to.
“Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.”
-Tao Te Ching
In the 70s? Poor thing We’re finally getting real winter weather YEAH!!! It might snow tonight ::::boing boing boing:::: <—me hopping around, all excited.
Didn’t Cecil state in one of his column that California would never sink into the ocean? California is 7 miles deep, while the ocean is 3, or something like that.
Jeffrey, not directed at you personally, but I do get tired, after a while, of the potshots at California (not that I don’t make them myself, of course . . . .)
If California slipped into the ocean tomorrow, the rest of the United States would suffer economic depression and possible famine, at least in the short term.
ok, so I’ve got some co-workers who have been commenting on the nice weather and saying, “This is earthquake weather”. I’ve always thought that “earthquake weather” was such a pile of shit. Even given the lunar tidal force on tectonic shift, the moon’s effect on our weather here, other than tides, is really almost negligible. IMHO of course Any defenders of this “eathquake weather”
“Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.”
-Tao Te Ching
I hadn’t heard of this prediction, but anyone who claims to be able to predict a major earthquake within 24 hours is bullshitting. Unless, of course, he said, “There will be earthquakes in California on the 21st,” – there will be, of course, many of them – and the newspeople took it out of context to try to stir up a little panic. That’s what they do, after all.
Earthquake weather is nonsense. The worst EQ in L.A. recently, the '94 Northridge quake, took place on a chilly January morning. (For those who don’t know, many people believe that unseasonably warm, dry weather is “earthquake weather.” They are wrong.)
We’re finally getting real winter weather YEAH!!! It might snow tonight ::::boing boing boing:::: <—me hopping around, all excited.