...but maybe wish you hadn't.

"How to survive an earthquake..." Stay Alive. That is all.

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Aloha, Ken


“I have developed significant attachments to several members even though I wouldn't recognize them if I sat next to one on a park bench. I'm often tempted when in an airport to walk around, hollering "The Løpe", to see if anyone other than the Homeland Security people will acknowledge me. ” - The Løpe

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us." Justice Robert Jackson

Great idea!
In for two.... if I'm still around for delivery.

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Why do I immediately think of a slasher movie?

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late

yeah. no.

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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in."

Buried with a donkey...

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Hurts like a bastid...

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Ombligo
Why do I immediately think of a slasher movie?

I'm thinking more of some sort of Acme product being used by Wile E Coyote.

I think it's more likely to be crushed by the bed when you get in/out of bed, or you have sex.

What about when you don't sleep?

Looks more like an instant coffin.

Yeah no…

1- don’t live in a poorly made building
2- get the heck outside ASAP.

I still remember waking up outside my apartment at about 4 AM. Then I realized I had felt the earthquake (4 on the Richter) and had just run outside before waking up.

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cbelt3
Yeah no…

1- don’t live in a poorly made building
2- get the heck outside ASAP.

I still remember waking up outside my apartment at about 4 AM. Then I realized I had felt the earthquake (4 on the Richter) and had just run outside before waking up.

1- most people cannot afford that.
2- if you experience a 7.x Earthquake (I did, 3 times), you realize there is often no time to do that. In fact I know cases where people ran to get out and the stairwell collapsed, while those who stayed inside survived.

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cbelt3
Yeah no…

1- don’t live in a poorly made building
2- get the heck outside ASAP.

I still remember waking up outside my apartment at about 4 AM. Then I realized I had felt the earthquake (4 on the Richter) and had just run outside before waking up.

1. Often virtually impossible to determine that.
2. This is the opposite of advice given by earthquake safety authorities because people often get killed or injured trying to rush outside. In almost all cases you should shelter in place until all shaking stops and then carefully evacuate to an open area. The most common injury during nighttime earthquakes is slashed feet cut on broken glass.

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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan

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cbelt3
2- get the heck outside ASAP.

2. This is the opposite of advice given by earthquake safety authorities because people often get killed or injured trying to rush outside. In almost all cases you should shelter in place until all shaking stops and then carefully evacuate to an open area.

Be my guest and stay in the building. It'll keep the staircase nice and clear for me to RUN LIKE THE DEVIL out of the building!!

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With my luck, I'd be sitting up when it closed.

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“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” -- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

The German word for contraceptive is “Schwangerschaftsverhütungsmittel”. By the time you finished saying that, it’s too late

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d4

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davester

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cbelt3
2- get the heck outside ASAP.

2. This is the opposite of advice given by earthquake safety authorities because people often get killed or injured trying to rush outside. In almost all cases you should shelter in place until all shaking stops and then carefully evacuate to an open area.

Be my guest and stay in the building. It'll keep the staircase nice and clear for me to RUN LIKE THE DEVIL out of the building!!

The last big quake here in LA came about in mid-morning 4AM or so. The 6.8 was located less than a half mile from our house and lasted long enough to not only wake us but make it virtually impossible to get out of our waterbed.

Once I did I raced (don't ask where I was going) to the front of the bedroom and collided with and went face first over an upturned dresser, after righting myself I ran toward the kitchen and gas jets (it's truly amazing how a life threatening emergency can hone thinking)

It was a holiday, MLK day. Next action was out in the street, racing up and down in my underwear, seizing on tools and shutting off neighbors gas feeds wife remembers me leaving her behind in that H2O bed and returning home not remembering much of it or the aftermath or the bleeding shins.