Everybody okay?

[Joe Allonby]

It took me a moment to recognize it for what it was. Then I laughed
out loud. Experienced much harder ones that people barely paid
attention to in central Alaska as a kid.

I have often laughed at southerners and Californians when they
over-react to dustings of snow. The Cali folks at least must be
laughing at New Englanders for once.



On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Old Cali-boy.  San Fernando 1971 - 6.6 - a few miles from the
> epicenter; I was nine at the time and from our home in the hills we
> could see all the fires burning from the broken gas main.
>
> This afternoon my wine sloshed around in my glass and I looked at my
> lunch mates (two Irishmen) and burst out laughing.  They'd never been
> in a quake before and found it vaguely disturbing; it felt like old
> home week to me.
>
> I actually kind of like 'em....it's a sign the planet is still alive.
> No earthquakes on a dead planet without the molten core and shifting
> plates....
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My rosemary plant fell off the back porch.
>>
>> Only casualty that I know of in Boston.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/23/virginia.quake/index.html
>>>
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> Richard Ryan
> New York and the World
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> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround
> him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself.
> All progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Shaw
>