I can't help but be amused, and more than a little pissed, by the saturation news coverage of the "Great East Coast Earthquake".
Being a lifelong Californian, I easily remember the reaction of the rest of the country, and the New York media in particular, to both the Loma Prieita quake in the Bay Area and the Northridge quake in LA a few years later (that I lived through) and in a word it was nothing but disdain.
"That's what you get for living in California" they'd tsk-tsk on the morning news.
Well, ya know what? Welcome to our world muthafuckas.
Pussies.
5.8?
That'd rattle the ice in our cocktails, but not much more.
So good luck with that. I'll be thinking of you later this week when the hurricane hits.
"That's what you get for living on the Eastern Seaboard..."
