Earthquake!
We watched the movie San Andreas last night. Usually I don't like to watch disaster movies but I have always had a morbid curiosity about the San Andreas fault.
As a child we lived in the San Francisco bay area for a few years, we moved there right after the big 1989 earthquake. My new friends often talked about it and what they were doing when it happened. We had lots of earthquake drills at our school, I always thought they were fun because they were lengthy and took time away from class. I thought of them as Tornado/Fire drills combined. We were to immediately take cover under our desk (like a tornado drill), and then after the initial shock we had to hurry outside (like a fire drill). We always heard people talk about how "the big one" was 30 years away, and when it hits California would fall into the ocean. My family moved back to the midwest and I no longer worried about earthquakes. I even promised myself that I was never going to move back to California. Then immediately after graduation from College I moved to Vegas and soon after that I purchased my first house....in California.
Luckily, we live fairly far from the San Andreas fault but the idea of an earthquake still scares me to death. I have felt a few earthquakes since living in California, but I would mistake them for a cat jumping on my china cabinet or a mild bout of vertigo. I guess the point of this blog post is if you want to watch a disaster movie, make sure it isn't too close to home. Don't watch Twister if you live in Oklahoma. Don't watch plane crashing movies on a flight, and if you live in California don't watch San Andreas.
As a child we lived in the San Francisco bay area for a few years, we moved there right after the big 1989 earthquake. My new friends often talked about it and what they were doing when it happened. We had lots of earthquake drills at our school, I always thought they were fun because they were lengthy and took time away from class. I thought of them as Tornado/Fire drills combined. We were to immediately take cover under our desk (like a tornado drill), and then after the initial shock we had to hurry outside (like a fire drill). We always heard people talk about how "the big one" was 30 years away, and when it hits California would fall into the ocean. My family moved back to the midwest and I no longer worried about earthquakes. I even promised myself that I was never going to move back to California. Then immediately after graduation from College I moved to Vegas and soon after that I purchased my first house....in California.
Luckily, we live fairly far from the San Andreas fault but the idea of an earthquake still scares me to death. I have felt a few earthquakes since living in California, but I would mistake them for a cat jumping on my china cabinet or a mild bout of vertigo. I guess the point of this blog post is if you want to watch a disaster movie, make sure it isn't too close to home. Don't watch Twister if you live in Oklahoma. Don't watch plane crashing movies on a flight, and if you live in California don't watch San Andreas.
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