# Obsolete Advice (For things that still exist) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 1, 2024, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsolete-advice-for-things-that-still-exist/1006548 "2024-09-01T06:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 43
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsolete-advice-for-things-that-still-exist/1006548/43 "2024-09-01T17:32:49Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Sounds a lot like the Sumatra earthquake on december 26th 2004. His was the Alaska one. > [@The day the trees touched the ground 3/27/1964](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-day-the-trees-touched-the-ground-3-27-1964/981725): > > Today is the 59th anniversary of the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964, which took place on Good Friday of that year. We had just sat down to dinner when we heard a rumble. My mother said “Earthquake!” My stepfather said “Oh, bullshit.” The rumble grew to a roar and some great hand reached down from the heavens, picked our house up, slammed it to the ground, and began shaking it like a terrier with a rat. As my parents for some reason tried to hold the kitchen cabinet doors closed, I bolted for … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obsolete-advice-for-things-that-still-exist/1006548)._