On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:55 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I know. I'm trying not to belittle what could be serious for some, and >> anyone experiencing their first quake can be in mild shock/panic. LA >> would panic if he had certain weather patterns that people on the east >> coast or midwest would consider tame. Everything is relative. >> > > Looks like the damage is not too bad back east, which is great. Saw this in > a story on Reuters: "'East Coasters freak out, West Coasters roll their > eyes', read one headline accompanying a story about Twitter reactions on > the Hollywood website The Wrap.com." That is pretty much the reaction I saw > from almost everyone I ran into today out here. Relatives from back there > called to freak a bit about how books were knocked off their shelves - we > try to be sympathetic, but the truth is when you have lived through shakes > that knocked cars off of freeway overpasses and bridges, it is not easy. > Actually, what we saw today is pretty much what you see every time there is > an earthquake out here, with visitors freaking out during their first, its > just that this is the first time in a long time newbies all got one at the > same time. > > And, as Kevin knows, LA can panic when the temp drops below 50 degrees, so > its not a macho thing. > > > And, when you close a freeway for two days. :P
Well, there was a bit of building damage, including pretty bad damage to the National Cathedral. (Yeah, what happens with buildings built before the thought of an unstable earth was a major factor in architecture...) http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/08/what-really-happened-national-cathedral-quake/41644/ The damage probably is worse the closer you are to the epicenter. Here, all it did was make my dad wonder if there was some construction going on... (ironically, he lived in California for two years, but *here* he feels his first ever earthquake). -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
