California

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...>
wrote:
> They're reporting a minor (well in terms of damage/casualties) 
> earthquake in SoCal - firstly, is everyone OK? secondly - did anyone 
> else think "I wonder if that's a sign of an impending apocalypse?"

It was actually in Middle California, about half-way between Los
Angeles and San Francisco, in a not-densely-populated area. I was
sorry to hear that Paso Robles's historic (1892) clock tower had
collapsed, and sorrier to hear that two people had been found dead
under the wreckage,    but I wish someone would report reassuringly
that there was no damage to Hearst Castle.

I felt it (I'm in Los Angeles) but I thought I was just having a dizzy
spell until Regina said: "It's an earthquake" so I dived under my desk
(which is a silly plastic thing built into the modular cubicle and
probably no protection at all if my PC monitor, shelves of manuals,
and so on decide to come crashing down). My thought was, if it really
was an earthquake and not a dizzy spell, if it turned out to be a
significant quake (y'know, doing billions of dollars of damage,
smashing important freeways so no one can get to their jobs, killing
half a dozen people), would the terrorists whose 'chatter' led to the
current state of orange alert claim credit for it?

(Orange Alert sounds like a good name for an orange flavored
caffeinated fizzy drink.)