An earthquake map, courtesy of my local free paper...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

This really brings home the risks: The view is to the north...

[Suich]

1. I saw a map like that once for my area,

and it freaked me out!

I was watching Gordon Ramsey's kitchen re-do show last night, and he was at a restaurant in Manhattan Beach called Lido...have you ever heard of it?

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Suich!

Yeah, this map makes it personal...

I've heard of the Lido.......never been there, though.

We tend to be home-bodies!


:D

[kentauros]

2. I'm in an earthquake-free zone, so no worries here.

However, I did almost freak when I misread your heading as "An earthquake map, courtesy of my local freeper..."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear kentauros!

Now, that's funny!

The map was published in the local free paper, called the Easy Reader. I know the owner, and he is no freeper! He would be amused, I think!

The paper started up in the early 70's and was a counter-culture paper for a long time.

:hi:

[kentauros]

7. That sounds like one we used to have here called "the Public News"

though it's nickname was "the Pubic News" due to some of the ads in the back pages ;)

Many of those writers ended up at The Houston Press, the best and most liberal weekly we have in town :hi:

[BurtWorm]

3. Which colored area are you in, Peggy?

They have such colorful names!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear BurtWorm...

I'm in the green part, the Compton Thrust Fault, in Manhattan Beach...

Those names sure are!

Scary too...:scared:

I know that there are faults right underneath me, but somehow this map makes it a lot more real...

[BurtWorm]

10. I'm sorry

even though it's not my fault.

:hide:

Stay safe!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Thanks, sweetie...

We're doing what we can, you know.

The house is very well built. We have provisions for power outages, and food and water storage...

Not to worry...

It's not something I have any control over.

:hug:

[marzipanni]

8. When Herb Caen compiled his amusing column in the S.F. Chronicle

made up of interesting observations from around the San Francisco Bay area, he told of a graffiti sighting at U.C. Berkeley. Above a long crack in a building's foundation someone wrote,"San Andreas fault?" In different handwriting someone (re)marked, "No, the contractor's!".

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear mazipanni!

Oh, that's hilarious!

I always read him, all the years I lived up there...many!

Thanks for the anecdote...

:hi: