4.5 on the Richter, centered in Chatsworth, pictures fell from walls in that area. Nothing at all, really. But the EF2 tornado (winds 111-135 mph) in Brooklyn & Staten Island, NY, that's something.
Finally! After 4 or 5 tries. Blogspot let me get into the comments... Hey, I slept thru the whole quake (thank Allah for the wonderful meds I'm on), but my fellow patients at the hosp. were pretty excited about it. I kept saying, "What earthquake? What earthquake?". Ah, it brings to mind the happy days of the '94 Northridge quake when both of us were living on Franklin Ave. and the world was our oyster.... or at least things weren't as shitty as they are now. And I didn't realize that I'd be unemployed 7 months hence with NO unemployment or income of any kind. P.
Actually, they don't use the Richter scale any more, as it is too inaccurate in the measurement of high-magnitude quakes. Notice that they just say "magnitude" without specifying a scale. P.
The Editor Responds: Y'know, we thought the once-popular Richter Scale had been replaced w/ something else, but as we weren't sure, we stuck w/ the tried & true. And we'll bet that had we been asleep, we might not have noticed the tremors either. In our nihilistic way, we hope for another BIG ONE, to scare people away & drive down property values, as happened in '94.
Dude, the "big one" in '94 was just a coda to the real catastrophe of the early 90s, the collapse of the aerospace industry, which had been driving the economy of southern Calif. since WWII. Last Friday, as I was driving out to Frye's to get an ethernet card (fucking DSL wouldn't work without it), I passed row after row of the ticky-tackiest of suburban houses on Hollywood Way that were little more than barracks, erected for Lockheed workers in the 40s and 50s. That's the story of the southern Calif. economy- years ago, plenty of cheap if shitty housing for good union workers at Lockheed and its ilk, now they could never be purchased by people of our social class, even if we had well-paying jobs. This whole city is a shithole, and an expensive one at that. There's really no place in LA for people like us, the rancid detritus of the middle class. P.
Which is exactly why Just Another Blog™ is hoping for the total destruction of the area by any force of nature that can do the job. Then the looting, shooting & wailing starts!!
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Finally! After 4 or 5 tries. Blogspot let me get into the comments... Hey, I slept thru the whole quake (thank Allah for the wonderful meds I'm on), but my fellow patients at the hosp. were pretty excited about it. I kept saying, "What earthquake? What earthquake?". Ah, it brings to mind the happy days of the '94 Northridge quake when both of us were living on Franklin Ave. and the world was our oyster.... or at least things weren't as shitty as they are now. And I didn't realize that I'd be unemployed 7 months hence with NO unemployment or income of any kind.
P.
Actually, they don't use the Richter scale any more, as it is too inaccurate in the measurement of high-magnitude quakes. Notice that they just say "magnitude" without specifying a scale.
P.
The Editor Responds:
Y'know, we thought the once-popular Richter Scale had been replaced w/ something else, but as we weren't sure, we stuck w/ the tried & true. And we'll bet that had we been asleep, we might not have noticed the tremors either. In our nihilistic way, we hope for another BIG ONE, to scare people away & drive down property values, as happened in '94.
Dude, the "big one" in '94 was just a coda to the real catastrophe of the early 90s, the collapse of the aerospace industry, which had been driving the economy of southern Calif. since WWII. Last Friday, as I was driving out to Frye's to get an ethernet card (fucking DSL wouldn't work without it), I passed row after row of the ticky-tackiest of suburban houses on Hollywood Way that were little more than barracks, erected for Lockheed workers in the 40s and 50s. That's the story of the southern Calif. economy- years ago, plenty of cheap if shitty housing for good union workers at Lockheed and its ilk, now they could never be purchased by people of our social class, even if we had well-paying jobs. This whole city is a shithole, and an expensive one at that. There's really no place in LA for people like us, the rancid detritus of the middle class.
P.
Which is exactly why Just Another Blog™ is hoping for the total destruction of the area by any force of nature that can do the job. Then the looting, shooting & wailing starts!!
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