I’m moving; Anchorage is shaking. (Y’all OK? Magnitude 5 is kind of a lot, right? … Earthquakes are going to be a new thing for me.)
I set up a goodbye dinner for Pittsburgh peeps–if you’re in Pittsburgh and not on Facebook (or if you are, but somehow I missed you), and you want to go, holler. I’ll forward the invite.
I am really frighteningly behind on going through stuff and packing, but here’s hoping it starts going faster.
We do have a new car, or will once it gets to the dealer. I think it’s the color Dale hates (“Sage Green Metallic”), which is very sad. But we’re approved for a loan at an acceptable rate, and given how much more acceptable that rate is than the rate on Grover, I think it’s the right choice. I’ll post pictures when I have them.
4 comments
August 19, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Momzo
Wow! Earthquakes had not crossed my mind yet…..sage metallic green subaru….good cars in the snow..Ara has had a few.
August 19, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Coral
To be fair, they don’t get very many. And this is the biggest one in a while, as I understand it.
August 22, 2009 at 10:49 am
Arlene Schmuland
Don’t sweat the earthquakes. I’ve lived in a lot of places and I’ll take these over just about every other natural disaster, mainly because they’re unpredictable and they’re usually over in seconds (like that one was). I hated waiting through the whole of tornado season, every year, for months on end, going into the basement for hours, or flash flood warnings, or hurricanes or other wind storms… You can’t get worried about earthquakes in advance because you never know when they’ll occur. Saves a LOT of stress.
Besides, most buildings here were built to earthquake standard, so okay, the swaying is interesting, but the CL is not going to topple down around your ears. Most days the life flight helicopters going over the building to Providence rattle my windows worse than even that 5.? did. And for longer.
And we have mechanisms of reducing post-quake stress. Everybody pick a magnitude and see who comes closest… I haven’t won yet, because I’ve been in my office for the last few and apparently I’m only calibrated as a seismometer for the ref desk.
August 22, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Coral
“Everybody pick a magnitude and see who comes closest…” That is fantastic!