7.8 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!!!
 

Is everyone ok?

Drill? :)

There was an earthquake ?

Didja fall out of bed?

Just watching the simulations made me nauseated.

Ooops, sorry. I was doing some aerobics.

Next time, I'll wait until after I've lost a few pounds. ;)

I'm of course reminded of the total cellphone and internet service interruption I experience for over an hour when we had that tiny earthquake a couple of months ago.


So I don't need no simulation for The Big One. I know all about it. WE'RE FUCT.

I was in the shower.

Text messaging and twitter worked great for me.

Wow, Palm Springs is TOAST. I imagine their drills today must involve rubble clearing and emergency morgue procedures.

You guys... -sigh-

I got freaked out. Not funny. Not. Funny. I do think we would have felt it or people would be crying/freaking out/calling what happened... we have a number of So Cal'ers in this building.

I do think that this scale of disaster preparedness is absolutely necessary, esp. for So Cal, and I applaud the effort.

I appologize to the non-Southern Californians. :blush:

I think I felt it too...

yeah, the guy on the news this morning was saying "if we actually have one during this drill, we'll either look like total geniuses or complete idiots"

Visible DP mojo.

I confess, I knew about the simulation, but when I read the thread title, I thought "Oh man! NPR has failed me!" :blush:

OH! So that's why my closet collapsed.

ALex and I were watching tv when the Emergency Alert thingy happened. They were saying to please drill if you were watching it, by taking cover, etc. We looked around our living room and were like, well, we're fvcked. Hehe. Of course, we're also a single door away from the outside here, and that's our nearest doorway, so I guess we'd have run outside.

I hope not to be in my closet when the big one hits.

You're not: we already know you are a lesbian by the way you dressed at last year's Camp Swank.

Says the man who has dressed in drag SEVERAL times.

THREE

And cross-dressers are usually not gay.

Not that I am a cross-dresser. All three of those times (the only times I have dressed as such) were for absurdity.

Whereas you were dressed in actual lesbian regalia!

Now we know what your pet name for Chris is...

...besides, sex in the closet is bad. Ask George Michael.

Damn, slept thru another one...

According to the scenario Palm Springs is in ruins.

I thought for him it was public restrooms?

So... I went on in cruelness and emailed the title to J. Without opening his email and clicking the link, he reports the news to his co-worker, whose son and boyfriend both live in So Cal.

Ummm... Yeah, I got a call from an unhappy J.

<-- so mean!

No worries.

It was just that big bean burrito I had for lunch.

Nothing to worry about!

Everyone can go about their regular business.....

Sorry....

:blush:

And to think I mojoed you in sympathy! :eek:

You know, George Michael is a Greek Cypriot - he's rather dark and hairy, or so a man in London told me. Also a Greek Cypriot - fond of older hairy men.

Sure, it was just a drill last time next time you might not be so lucky. Disaster might be closer than you think and you can blame the Salton sea.

Nothing says grant money like disaster on an epic scale.

I hate it when people drudge up these old threads and I read it thinking it's new......

I love digging up old threads so that people reading them think they are new.

Well, we did have an earthquake at 9:51 this morning...

2.3? That's not an earthquake. That's a friendly hello.

That's about the equivalent of a geological fart.

If we had a 7.8 you'd know.

But that reminds me, I need to redo my emergency kit.

We should all use this as a good reminder to make sure emergency supplies are readily available for your family and your pets.

One of my neighbors is a emergency preparedness fanatic. They have the generator (plus propane to run it), food stores - MRE's, blankets, etc.

Too bad I have the one thing they deemed not necessary. A gun.

It's called Karma will come back to bite you. lol just kidding....

So on the news today they were discussing the quake clusters that have been happening in the IE.

They reported there was "between a 1-in-100 and a 1-in-20 chance" of a major quake in the next few days.

Never seen them give numbers even that specific before, but it's still a very low probability.

To keep you guys busy until the big one hits, here is a webcam of a LIVE volcano that's looking pretty cool today...

Mt. Redoubt in Alaska.

This is not the news I wanted to hear just before I come down there! I remember there being at least two earthquakes when we there 4-5 years ago. I didn't really enjoy them!

What is the IE?

"Inland Empire" - Riverside and San Bernardino.

It's a bit confusing when we're down there and hear that term used. (Usually during the weather report). We're the heart of the Inland Empire up here as well.

Also known as that place east of LA that smells bad that you have to pass through to get to Vegas.

Parts of which are sometimes referred to as "The 909"

Which is no longer an accurate moniker as half of the IE is now the 951 area code.

Here in the federal government, the less accurate a moniker is, the better we like it!