I was in Monterrey, CA in October 1989. I was standing in the center of a military dining facility with all glass walls. Above me were serving utensils hanging from the ceiling.
Never again I know when a hurricane is coming and if it is CAT4 or higher I will evacuate. I have sat through hurricanes that took hours to pass and was pretty scared from the sounds. Yet that is still preferable to an earthquake. The only idea I had that the earthquake was going to hit was a feeling of wooziness and lack of balance about 15 seconds before it struck...
>My brother lives in Miami, and my mother lives in Tallahasee.
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>My sister-in-law is terrified of coming to see us because of
>'all the earthquakes'.
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>Earthquakes occur arround the world all the time.
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http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/>
>Most are negligable, but some are felt and do damage. The last
>quake that caused any real damage was the Northridge quake in
>1994, 11 years ago.
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>There have been 21 tropical storms this season alone, with
>4 or 5 making landfall. This is a yearly ritual.
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>The damage produced by these storms dwarfs that of the occasional
>earthquake here in Californai, yet people from Florida fear coming
>here.
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>Go figure.
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>You must be getting used to them this year. And there is still another few weeks of the hurricane season to go . Good luck>>
>>Thanks! I've "been used to them" for years. I lived through Andrew in 1992. We'll be OK.
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