I’m heading back to LA tonight, for the next week and a half. Not sure how much blogging will be happening.
[Evening update, about 9:40 CDT]
Well, I’m stuck at DFW, with my LA flight delayed until 11 PM local, which gets me into LA about midnight, and probably to my room over an hour later. Should have taken the non-stop from Miami.
[Bleary Wednesday morning update from the left coast]
OK, I was wrong. It wasn’t delayed until 11 pm — it didn’t rise the wheels until 12:30 AM (1:30 AM my body time on a day after I’d gotten up at 5 AM). We got into LAX about 2 AM Pacific (24 hours after I had first arisen). National had only two cars, both vans. The first one (a Kia Sedona) started beeping at me, and lighted an indicator saying that both front doors were ajar (no, it’s not a jar, it’s a door…) and the interior light came on and wouldn’t go off. This behavior continued, so I returned the car, to little rejoicing, and got the other one, a Dodge of some variety. I didn’t get to bed until after 3 AM. It’s now almost 10 AM, and I’m at work.
Hopefully, I’ll get caught up a little tonight.
I spent all afternoon watching the History Channel, it was all about tsunamis and earthquakes. Good luck.
Yea, don’t fall off into the Pacific.
I moved from southern CA to NH just north of Boston area about 6 months before the north ridge Quake. All my co-workers came to me and said aren’t you glad that you don’t live in CA anymore. I pointed out that more people froze to death in new england every winter than died in the Northridge quake, and winter happens more often than big quakes in CA.
They never mentioned it again, I wonder why??
I’m now back in socal and wising I was still in NH.
Paul,
I used to get that kind of stuff when I worked at the co-gens in the Oil Patch outside Bakersfield in the ’90s, and way back when I was stationed in San Diego in the ’70s too.
they: “..aren’t you glad to be away from ALL THOSE hurricanes and tornadoes!?” (emphasis mine)
me: “…wwwweeeelll, it’s all relative folks, I had a basement to get in, to hide, from tornadoes, and I can get in my car, to go INLAND to run from hurricanes. We usually get days of notification of the possibility, of ALL THOSE. Where is it you go to get away from EARTHQUAKES? Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada? And how much warning do you get? Does the NWS send those, or do you you ‘just know’ they’re about to happen?”
Again, with the total silence. It’s all about the devil you know.
Currently, the city I grew up in, Louisville, is flooded from the heaviest, quickest rains in recorded history back there. Of course, flash flooding they definitely understand in CA.