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Alison Parker's avatar

FFS I've never lived for one day outside of California and even my temperate-climate-that's-never-seen-a-hurricane-dwelling ass knows about hurricane season.

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Gina's avatar

I don't even live in your country and we don't have hurricanes - and I know about hurricane season

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

I lived through about four when I lived in MA and NJ before I was 11, and I'll take them over earthquakes, for which there is no warning. (I've lived in CA since 1961.)

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Alison Parker's avatar

Okay, but we don't have "earthquake season" or something where we know there will be multiple quakes every year. How many major quakes have there been in your time here? By "major" I mean ones that cause severe damage and loss of life. Very few. The vast majority of quakes are too small to even feel, and of the ones you can feel, the vast majority of those are nothingburgers. Like, a 3.0 isn't going to take down a building or a bridge. I can recall maybe four or five in the NorCal area in my just-under-45 years that I would label as "major" as far as damage done.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Four or five? I live in Berkeley, and I only recall one--1989. A section of the Bay Bridge collapsed, some of the Oakland Freeway collapsed, etc. etc. Anything under 5.0 is not major, and we mostly have 3s and an occasional 4. The one in 1989 was centered south of San Jose, at least 60 miles from us, and I actually thought a wall was going to fall off the house. My house is bolted now, and we have earthquake preparations and supplies stashed in safe places for that 6 or 7 on the Hayward Fault, which is only about 60 years overdue. Oh and we bought the house about two miles from the fault. No hills for us. 64 years in Berkeley, Oakland, El Cerrito.

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arne link's avatar

I live a couple of miles from the San Andreas fault. Pfft! Nothing yet.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Yes, there hasn't been a big one on the San Andreas since I've been here. That's not a good sign. The Hayward Fault last had a big earthquake in 1867. It's expected to quake (so to speak) every 100 years, but 1967 was a while ago, and now it's 2025. For some reason, I thought you lived in TX... But the longer it takes, the more time you have to prepare.

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Charles Austin's avatar

"Wabbit season! Duck season!" Oddsfish! The very air abounds in sewer clowns!

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