"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.

I lived in King County at that time. So felt the Nisqually. Then moved to Alaska just in time for the Denali quake 7.9. Moved South to Eagle River for the 2018 - 7.1 (about a mile from the epicenter) and that felt dramatically worse than Nisqually due to hard rock foundation but also just how magnitudes function as a measurement. Thankfully I am too young to have horror stories from the 64 earthquake that all my family and extended family share. After 4 and half minutes of 9.2 shaking, tree tops hitting the ground from rolling ground, cracks opening in the earth or sections sinking down, landslides not a one felt like they were going to survive. It felt like the apocolypse and there is not a darn thing you can do. You are helpless. Anyway, I get shaken wondering how big things will get once you get above 7. I am blessed that the last one that tore the side of my house away from the other walls was smaller (7.1)and shorter since I was naked in the basement at the time. 😂 It would have sucked if it kept going and I would have been crushed or just trapped and froze. 🥶 Big ones do bother me. once you can't walk well, it sucks. You feel out of control because you are. After the 7.1 while I was starting to clean up my son asked if that was considered a big quake. I said it depends. As a percentage of total number of quakes lined out I suppose. As a comparison of energy released it was a wee baby compared to the 7.9 in 2002 or 9.2 his Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, etc survived. ETA link

Probably because 6.8 isn't big.

Well, I tend to just ignore anything below a 6 and go about my day as though nothing has happened. Over 6 I start with double checking gas lines. If you live near water checking if there was landslides upstream etc. I know East Coast infastructure is not built like Alaskan infastructure and is often older so perhaps it is different but hard to imagine sub 5 really affecting much.

That is great. Alaskans are not great at restricting activities to indoors. 😂 My husband has chipped channels in the ice to help speed melt and run off in flip flops and shorts, people sun bathe on roofs which clear faster than the ground. When I was a kid the favored spring activity was pulling the row boat out in Grandma's field and boating around the field because the snowmelt created a pond. Lol It IS the uglyist time of year though.

Oh Canada, my friend I feel your pain. This is my current view from my front window. He forgot to mention all the things that the melting snow uncovers like dog waste, trash, an occasional human cadaver. There is probably less of that stuff in Canada though. My current view from living room. It has melted a LOT. The sun can now shine in over the top mid day. 😂

Which is why I made the exception of running your own business. The average joe that is simply an employee should have that option. Also, it has always proposed as optional which means that anyone who thinks they have more deductions than given would choose to personally file. Simple! People can choose how to file. With the standard deduction at 14k and 29k for joint filers, the average middle class and working class citizen can now easily use the standard deduction.

To be honest with you, if you are not running your own business or work under the table, the US government has all your information also. Employers, banks, schools, everyone sends your info to the IRS. Then the test/ game begins. Will you get it right? Will you be audited? Basically, the main reason for the current system is lobbyests and politics.

Why is there no envy emoji? Why?

This thread made me feel old and completely out of touch. That is all. Carry on.

Maybe. Some of them. I doubt the younger age group spends much time reading the paper. More like watching people do crazy stuff on instagram and then having to try it themselves. I really don't have much faith in people's willingness to put forth the effort of thinking whether it be the wilderness, home repair, driving or politics. And they may think they are only risking themselves. Thinking about others, like rescuers, is probably beyond their capabilities. Drivers can't think about pedestrians even though they can visually see the danger they are putting them in. Don't get me wrong, I am not advocating living that way but it is what I see all around me. People really aren't good at thinking about things they aren't required to think about. They also don't know what they don't know and most people prefer making statements to asking questions. 🤷‍♀️

I agree but I assure you that a few lines on twitter or other favored social media would not relate all that context and there would be judgement that he was stupid. That was my point. Earlier in the post I mentioned death count on a sign might help. So it wasn't like I was completely disagreeing. I just find keyboard warriors in general over judgy. I do think the average American has usually been protected their whole life. Starting with safe playgrounds. They are clueless but I do think a lot of it is a failure to understand that decisions have consequences because they are always protected. That and overuse of signs makes people start to ignore them and if they haven't been exposed to danger and good practices growing up, they just are clueless of their ignorance as most of us are about something we haven't been exposed to much.