Millions of stress and worry migraines will need dimming. And moving ground causes nausea if you happen to be jiggling on top of it. Depression too is a justifiable indication for natural medication, and what's more depressing than the certainty that you will be next. A quake is coming, and it has your number.
Los Angeles sits just west of the moving edge of the Pacific Tectonic Plate, which is twisting like some infernal dial, slowly, but inexorably tearing LA along with Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and other points of interest north by northwest. Cracks in the earth's crust spiderweb outwards from the edge and fan beneath LA, ensuring nothing gets spared. Anyone seen 2012? Exaggeration in the cause of entertainment, but it got one thing right - no spot of land in LA LA Land will get a pass on the shake, rattle, and roll.
So expect lines at the local 'herbal collective'. Normally, as far as passersby would discern, ours is lifeless. Only by entering the convenience store next door would you detect vital signs. The store shares a dividing wall with the collective, and that wall is not hermetically sealed. The sickly sweet smells of herbal culture sneak across. Let's just say you would be well advised to avoid that store for a month in advance of any mandatory drug testing.
But life will soon be obvious at that outlet and many others like it. Now that NorCal has been rung like a bell, thoughts will crystalize around fears of who 'gets it' next. Anyone following earthquake reports the past few years will crystalize the reality best: everywhere else has been hit. Japan, China, Indonesia, South American, Mexico - the usual suspects on the 'Ring of Fire'. It's like a giant-size Wheel of Fortune only it's not good for the needle to stop on you.
But it may be LA's turn.
Or possibly San Francisco. Yeah, that's it, San Francisco. Simpatico Medicos in the Haight, get your prescription books ready ...
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Ringing like a bell. I should have linked this to you earlier.
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
My wife likes to keep track of the earth-shake patterns in California, and she noticed a quieting in the north and the Parkfield segments post the recent quake.
As I course over and around the Bay Area roads and bridges, I often think of a mega-rupture of both the Hayward and san Andreas faults at the same time. Either that or an L.A. quake would make Katrina look sane. I'd hate to see that land on our laps - or President Obama's. But I'd rather have him at the helm then SarahMcDubyain.
Amen to that. I checked out that link. Reminds me that, although Californians are spared the yearly dramas of hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes, we live on top of what could be described as a coiled rattlesnake, ready to strike. Here's hoping our geologists expand their ability to detect a warning 'rattle' ...
This light-hearted commentary has become sadly ironic in the wake of the massive and deadly earthquake in Haiti. Our thoughts and best wishes for recovery and healing should be directed towards the victims of that disaster.
We donate to Doctors Without Borders, and they are already there.
Good time for us to send another check.
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