Our school district is trying to close 6 schools but it doesn't matter which schools they close; those parents will freak. It happens every time but we have lost 6000 students since 2010. How can they not close schools? I suppose everyone will just say it should be the other guy's school. 🤷‍♀️

"Meetup.com" has some interesting groups. It can be hit or miss if you find your people or not. You can start your own but it will take time for people to find your group.

If you drove to Alaska you would have to leave your car and fly as totality is not near the road system.

I will have to tell you how I feel in 2033 when we will be a bit closer to the path.

I see I am in good company when it comes to cheese. 😂 I will add sometimes good chocolate.

Honestly, those articles dividing by generation are written because lots of people click on them.

You just incited my jealousy! Avacadoes are $3 a piece when yhey do those 2 for $6 sales here. I know it is expected and I choose to live here but oh how heavenly to have cheap avacados. Lol

I splurged so much on groceries this week. Brie, fresh mozzerella, fresh parm, and black cambozola black label cheese. All unnecessary to feed my family and pretty expensive. I was weak and that was definitly a splurge and there is nothing wrong with calling it such. 20 and 30 something me would never have bought those or maybe one of those once a year.

I don't think any of thesehave been mentioned. The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the big hungry bear by Don Wood Blueberry Shoe by Ann Dixon If you like Margaret Brown, The Big Red Barn seems less popular than Goodnight Moon

Yeah, Washington, I remember finally getting the point I asked myself "How big is this going to get?" and it started dying down. I was really used to earthquakes and went about my business without much thought until someone knocked on my door saying we had to evacuate the building because a landslide had clogged the river and might flood but it was unclogged without issue. The 7.9 though made my heart pound but didn't give me time to process fear even though it was drastically bigger than the others I experienced. The 7.1 was sharper than the others. Much more jolting. I just wanted to get to my kids but then it was over. Then it was just a "get to work everyone" because you could not walk in the house. Every cupboard was emptied. I was a little nervous at that point because I had multiple structural problems with my home so the aftershocks were more of a worry. But an almost 5 minute earthquake where at 9.2 is a whole 'nother ball game. There is just more time to get over shock and then wonder if it will ever end and some said it did feel like the apocalypse. It was just so so long! Of course, different people experienced it differently. My Uncle was on a narrow road above a cliff driving a semi truck and really had no time to think. Mom said the ground didn't just open but would slam shut again and water would spray out as her car was thrown all over but the worst from my impressions was just staying in your spot in your house (my Grandma) because just holding onto a beam gave you too much time to just wonder. They had 11 aftershocks above magnitude 6 that day alone. So people were jumpier and looking for buried people. So yeah, long is definitly different. But the discussion above explaining force helps me to understand my 7.9 experience doesn't really help me understand what they experienced. And if a smaller quake buries your loved ones in rubble it doesn't matter how big it was. The tragedy is losing your loved one. So very thankful Taiwan has made amazing progress on their building safety!!! Cities are scarier because manmade stuff is fragile.

I have personally been in a 6.8, 7.1, and 7.9 earthquake and many smaller ones. I know what earthquakes feel like. I realize that people have reason to fear but for THE person who responded that they were "NOT BOTHERED" by Nisqually I was giving them a reference point. I was responding to someone about Nisqually, which they were sayin was no big deal and it wasn't really but a huge part of that is construction. I was trying to say just because you aren't bothered by Nisqually doesn't mean you wouldn't be bothered by a really big one like the 9.2 my family survived. Luckily, that was a few years before I was born. If people would look back they would see what I was responding to.

Biggest things are building codes. Poor New Zealand and their brick. 😥 Alaska jokingly had thank or hug an engineer day after our last quake. 😂 Depth changes feel. Rolling versus sharp jerks and also damage amounts. Land- rock (will feel harder hit) Looser fill will liquify during a longer quake. And the most obvious is distance from epicenter. And they don't really use Richter scale anymore. But the video explains that. Actually, realizing it just covers energy released. You can google moment magnitude scale though.

That is why I added the video above. It puts a visual on something that is hard for people to comprehend in showing energy released and explains just that. Damage is also a result of building codes. So the Nisqually earthquake didn't have a death toll like smaller earthquakes would in poor countries. What really matters is that people don't get hurt.

I was in the one she mentioned. Yes it causes disruption but she said it didn't bother her and I agreed. People in poor places whose homes crush them will be bothered by much smaller ones I assure you. Construction matters and what really bothers people is loss of life. Typically. But if you are going to say biq quakes DON'T bother you then recognize what a big quake is.