# I hope I survive the day! (If not, I love you!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 1999, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219 "1999-12-21T10:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/1 "1999-12-21T10:11:00Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/2 "1999-12-21T16:41:00Z")
::supplies of checking bottled water, flashlight batteries, and cheap romance novels:: Okay, I’m ready! -Melin ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/3 "1999-12-21T16:44:00Z")
Yaaaah it’s happening! Ooops, sorry. Too many bean burritos last night. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/4 "1999-12-21T16:49:00Z")
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.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/5 "1999-12-21T17:14:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/6 "1999-12-21T17:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t have any supplies, but I’ve got neighbors with supplies that I can murder if I need to. 😉 \Oh shit, now he knows where I live!\ * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/7 "1999-12-21T17:31:00Z")
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. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/8 "1999-12-21T17:34:00Z")
They have been predicting that a major earthquake would hit Calif since the 40’s and it would slide into the ocean… What is a big earthquake by this person anyway? 5? 7? There are dozens of small ones everyday in California. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/9 "1999-12-22T06:24:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/10 "1999-12-22T06:35:00Z")
I grew up in California. Only 7 miles deep? That’s too deep for hip waders, that much is certain. \ [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/Grin.gif](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/Grin.gif) \ * * * I once lost my corkscrew and had to live on food and water for several days -W.C. Fields [http://members.tripod.com/~Bob\_Baloo/index.htm](http://members.tripod.com/~Bob_Baloo/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/11 "1999-12-22T06:58:00Z")
We could never be so lucky as to have California sink into the ocean. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/12 "1999-12-21T21:01:00Z")
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. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/13 "1999-12-21T21:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. -Melin And you wouldn’t be able to say “Only in California” with a raised eyebrow and a knowing look anymore, either. Nyeah. * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/14 "1999-12-21T21:21:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/15 "1999-12-21T21:54:00Z")
It’s 1:58 pm PST, and I’m still alive. No major earthquakes up here in the Bay Area yet…how’s it going down in SoCal? * * * ~Kyla “You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.” ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/16 "1999-12-21T21:54:00Z")
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.) Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/17 "1999-12-21T21:56:00Z")
I’m in L.A., Kyla, and not a rumble. If he’s right, it’s blind luck. I love the news. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/18 "1999-12-21T22:27:00Z")
Melin, I also take potshots at AL, and about any other state. There are just a large number of posters from CA here. You guys think we Georgians are a bunch of hicks and we think y’all are a bunch of weirdos. I have family and friends in CA, so I would not want it to go under. It was just a joke. Make some about GA, go ahead it will make you feel better. Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/19 "1999-12-21T22:43:00Z")
We don’t need to make any jokes about GA. They already have some. The Atlanta Braves. ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 1999, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219/20 "1999-12-21T22:54:00Z")
That’s real funny. It would be funnier if you said the Atlanta Falcons. The Braves at least have won their division every year for the past few years. This from a person in Chicago. The land of the loser Cubs and the loser Sox. Jeffery [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-i-survive-the-day-if-not-i-love-you/12219.md?page=2)