The town is all a twitter!
Literally.
There's a rumor sweeping Bakersfield, via email/text/twitter/Facebook, that the USGS has predicted an 8.4 magnitude earthquake will hit Bako in the next 24 hours!
Everyone is in a panic.
One frantic woman was interviewed on the morning news and expressed her fear that an earthquake that big would make Bakersfield unlivable.
Honey, I hate to break it to you, but it already is.
Let me see if I'm understanding this correctly. In the past 60 days, massive earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Chile, Mexico, and just this morning, China. Unpredicted. And in every instance, the nice people at Caltech have trotted out to tell everyone they didn't predict them, they don't have the science to predict them, and they possibly never will be able to predict them.
And yet, the simpletons here seem to think this is a new skill, developed in the last week, and it's going to be test driven on Bakersfield.
The consensus view seems to be that an 8.4 earthquake here would be a bad thing. I'm not so sure. If I've learned nothing over the past two days it's that sometimes, when something isn't working, it's just best to wipe the slate clean and start over from scrath.
That applies to movie posters as well as mid sized American cities.
