Originally Posted by
noteon
Well, I don't know about never getting used to it... I'm an L.A. native too, and earthquakes always seemed normal to me. (And for my first few weeks after moving to New York, I kept thinking subway rumbles were foreshocks.)
Besides the usual earthquake preparedness stuff (have water on hand, know how to turn your gas off, etc.), I don't know of a way to prepare for The Big One any more than you'd prepare for All The Other Ones. What kind of additional preparation would you like to see people do?
How in the world do you crazy cowboys out west live in this sort of chaos? How do water mains and subway/car tunnels survive the constant onslaught? I've never thought of it before, but I suppose this is why they don't have basements and water towers out there.
If the ocean deserves fear and respect when it gets ornery then how much more the hard earth? Now excuse me while I go make my home on an active volcano.
