quaking

[threeplusfire]

I want to write about my day, but it feels strange in light of the events in Japan.

This situation with the nuclear reactors is nerve wracking.

I can't imagine a worse sensation than an earthquake. There's nowhere to get away, nothing to do about it. I'll take every scary tornado season over that. At least with the tornado, there are places to hide. The sight of the skyscrapers in Tokyo swaying make me feel a little faint. (I know they were doing what they were supposed to and fuck yeah for engineers and building codes that save so many lives. Still, seeing something that large and supposedly solid moving like a tree in a strong wind...)

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

For me that sort of inescapable inevitability is horrifying.

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

I think that's how my MiL feels which is why I'm slightly confused why she chose to live here. I mean, in the ten years I've been here there were very minor quakes but she's experienced some decent sized ones over her many years and stayed. She keeps talking about putting new locks on the cabinets so we don't lose dishware but I'm just, "If the quake is that big, we're not going to HAVE cabinets anymore. Or walls."

I am perhaps not the most reassuring person on this subject.

ETA: On the plus side, maybe I can get her in the "Let's move to Austin camp" now!