I can only say this now, since there wasn't much damage done and there was no loss of life (as far as I know at least) but someone asked me in a previous blog entry if the Mobile Home was on a fault line.
Apparently the answer is, if it's not ON one, it is NEAR one!
I talked to my dad this afternoon, and he told me that they had experienced an earthquake on Thursday evening! It was only a 4.5 or so, but it's epicenter was in San Bernadino which is near Loma Linda.
Even though he'd lived in CA when he was younger (late high-school/college) this was his first earthquake. He said it felt like an explosion or a large crash.
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Ugh. Some one thinks I want to hear their rap music. They're sitting out in the parking lot with their windows open and car stereo loud.
It would be nice to have some kind of electronics scrambler to point at vehicles of people who insist on sharing their version of music with the world. *evil laugh*
(Someone must have said something, the decibels moved down a couple notches -though I can still hear it.)
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Today was a no spend day.
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E asked me if I'd like to take over opening the gym on Monday mornings. I told him that I had made a promise to myself not to do more than one morning a week (unless an emergency.) That my exercise routine just suffered too much when I did the extra shifts. He was understanding. -- The extra $13/wk sure would be nice, but my workout days are already reduced to just Monday to Th - not worth $13/wk to lose another morning.
Uh Oh! Earthquake!
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I remember a LOT of earthquakes in the 80s (Bay Area) but it has way leveled off since the Loma Prieta quake. Can't say how it is in Southern Cali...
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Sorry about that! I couldn't remember for sure and then I got a call . . . so wanted to get my post finished, so didn't look back at my previous entry.
That was a good question.
MonkeyMama,
Heh. How near is near? I'd say anywhere close enough to where you fell even a small shake is quite near enough!
Before I got my first teaching job in CA, I *swore* I would NEVER live in CA. The reason? Earthquakes - especially 'The Big One'. It was just too funny that of three job offers I got, two of them were in CA - so much for the NEVER part.
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Here in DFW we get tornadoes sometimes. It can be kind of scary hearing the sirens going off. Fortunately I've not had any tornadoes touch down anywhere that affected me directly. (Knock on wood.)
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