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think quake

  When is the last time — You thought about an earthquake? When is the last time you checked earthquake supplies? If you live in Connecticut fine. If you live in California? Go check the supplies. And also check this checklist. This is a Red Cross list: WATER * Store water in plastic containers such […]

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  This is a re-post. Read it anyway — There is a lot of fighting about the Triangle of Life because it contradicts the old Drop and Cover advice that has been in disaster pamphlets for a long long time [like a hundred years, seriously, with no updates] and used to be the only earthquake […]

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triangle of life

  There is — A lot of fighting about the Triangle of Life because it contradicts the old Drop and Cover advice that has been in disaster pamphlets for a long long time [like a hundred years, seriously, with no updates] and used to be the only earthquake advice out there. That contradiction started a […]

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the places i come from : part iii

  Most of my childhood — Has burned or shaken away. Forget mudslides. Which everyone pretends is an aberration, not a regular thing.   I remember kids taking pieces –– small pieces because it was rubble — of the roof away from a grammar school I attended. The whole administration building went down during a […]

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haiti

  When I was in Haiti, I watched American tourists throw nickels off cliffs to watch five year olds dive for them. They were dangerous cliffs. They were dangerous dives. We are talking the ocean, cliffs, mad waves smacking cliffs, fifteen and twenty foot dives, rocks all the fuck over, and five year olds. For […]

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why we are falling into the sea

  My favorite theory — For why California is going to fall into the ocean is the National Geographic Theory. It goes like this : Everyone in California gets National Geographic. No one throws away National Geographic. Garages are filling with National Geographic up and down the fault line and one day, poof, they will […]

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earthquake

  Say, we had a quake here. It was not very big, they are saying 5.4. Kind of spooky it kept going longer than they usually do and when they last like that you do not know if it is the quake or is a forerunner to a quake that is going to be big. […]

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