San Francisco is My Home

31
Oct

Earthquake!

Author: kris, Category: News

Remember that time that I was so cavalier about earthquakes? Well, we had a 5.6 last night and I am not laughing now.

Actually, now I am laughing, but at the time not so much. That sucker was long. My thought process was: What’s going on? Is this an earthquake? No. Wait, is it? No. I mean, it’s still going on though. No. Okay, yes. Doorway!

Then I stood in the doorway for a while and watch the lamp rattle and thought about the pictures of what happened to some of the buildings in the Loma Prieta quake and hoped my apartment wouldn’t fall down.

It didn’t. And none of my neighbors even came out into the hall afterwards, in a building full of people who flock out into the hall at any excuse: power outage, solicitor in the building, decorating parties, friendly chats. (Seriously, guys: it would have killed you to step out into the hall and reassure me a little?) So I figured everything was fine, and it was, even though today’s Chron is naturally full of dire predictions. (”Sure, it’s fine this time…but what about next time?“) I guess you’ve got to fill your 500 words somehow, even if your headline pretty much tells the whole story.

I am still unafraid of the tiny shocks and rolls we normally get. But a 5.6 is, well, unsettling. Ah well, at least it gave me something to blog about today.