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Originally Posted by daffy4u
They really are fun (sick but true)... as long as no one gets hurt and there isn't too much damage. Phone lines are a bit jamed up with people trying to call each other about it but when I reached the person I was trying to call, the first thing I said was "Did you enjoy the ride?" and of course shared what we were doing when it hit.
It's been downgraded to a 5.4.
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I know .... I lived in California for about 40 years, and people never understood how most of us feel about quakes. If they hit in the dead of night, you wake up, estimate the Richter scale, and if it's less than 6, you roll over and go back to sleep. If it hits during the day, you enjoy the ride ... and as long as it's a no injury quake, and there's not much damage ... it's no harm no foul.
We have so many of them ... and most cause few if any injuries or deaths. It's really very hard not to get a little blase about them. And, it's not like you can really do anything about them. There is no warning siren to take shelter ... you can't see it coming for days like a hurricane. You just hope that this one isn't the "big one" and that your number is not up ... and hold on.
But, that said .... I am glad that you and yours are all ok.