Ding Dong, Ho Hum for Us

Posted on December 22, 2003 in California Watch Disasters

We’re fine.

They reported that the “entire planet rang like a bell“, but we did not feel a thing. Someone made a derogatory comment about California and today’s earthquake in a chat room: that was the first either Lynn or I heard of it.

News agencies, bored by today’s terror alert, seized on this slightly more meaningful event that killed two people. Reuters overplayed the effects of the Hector Mine earthquake — which I felt while chatting to a friend — as having “crashed” through California. Nothing fell here in Trabuco Canyon. I woke my wife up to get in a door. Then we laughed about how my friend in New York panicked.

I guess I must have been napping when today’s tremblor brought down a cheap belltower in Paso Robles and raised the altitude of the surrounding hills by a foot. 6.5 doesn’t faze real Californians unless they happen to be contractors who ignored building codes or local inspectors who took bribes.

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Yule discovered that this story ran in the Oakland Tribune eight hours before the Cambria Quake.

I predicted this event myself. Over dinner with Lynn, unfortunately, but alas there is no record. So, to prove to you my prowess as a psychic, I shall state that within the next seven to ten days there shall be a seismic event exceeding 6.0 in magnitude somewhere in the world.

You will see that this comes to pass. Mark my words and the time.