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We just had a 5.8 earthquake here. Anyone else in So Calif feel it?
I was fucking my girlfriend while it started shaking. At first, I thought it we my heavy and deep thrusting that was causing the headboard to slam. But after I felt the wall shake, I was like, "damm, I'm not that good!"
We just had a 5.8 earthquake here. Anyone else in So Calif feel it?
Why all these bookshelves falling over? Don't you have those retention straps to prevent that kind of thing? If I lived out there I'd live in a single storey house with a rice paper roof and what isn't nailed down, including my bed, would be far away from the walls. I don't know how you people can live on a time bomb like that. My cousin missed getting smushed on that collapsed freeway during that big quake a while ago simply because her husband was feeling frisky that morning. If it wasn't for his morning wood, she'd likely be dead.
I don't have retention straps on the bookcases because there's nothing around them that's breakable (and they're made of metal). The straps would just keep the shelves in place, not the books. So same amount of clean up required.
As for the time bomb... the price we pay to live here I suppose. But seriously, the chances of dying in an earthquake are incredibly slim. Of course it's awful when it does happen, but its a rare event. There's some morbidly funny stats out there, like (for example) I stand better odds of being legally executed than dying in an earthquake. Though that may say as much about our criminal justice system as it does plate movement.
There's time bombs everywhere really. New Orleans was one. A major hurricane in New York City, a massive flood on the Thames, Amy Winehouse... they're all ticking. I guess my attitude is I'll go when I go, and until then will enjoy myself as much as possible. A life lived in fear is a life not lived. :smile: