SFist: Earthquake Shmerthquake

Darkmoon

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:50:29 -0800

That wasn't an earthquake..... It's ' Godzilla ' !!!!!!!!

redseca2

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:03:55 -0800

Lessons learned from living through the Loma Prieta Earthquake in the Haight: Have cat food; kitty is not amused by your little emergency. We had water, we even had working gas to the kitchen stove, and we had a pound of Peet's whole coffee beans....but no electricity. Wrapping whole beans in a towel and whacking with a hammer doesn't work. A cheap $5 dollar transistor radio from Radio Shack will become your most important high tech gadget, if you have batteries.

sfrealist

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:48:06 -0800

Actually water is the one thing you should have. You can go a couple of days without food, but you need water. The city's website, http://www.72hours.org/build_kit.html, recommends a lot of stupid crap (staple gun? bungee cords? plastic sheeting? wtf?). But stick a gallon of water under the sink. No one in New Orleans died for lack of a bungee cord, but plenty of people died for lack of water.

rubylovesnorman

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:41:12 -0800

Yep a small pond's worth of water that with time may crack and flood your teeny, tiny apartment. I've been trying to figure out a good way to do this since I moved here.

zeemeister

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:38:06 -0800

My earthquake preparedness kit is a good old-fashioned handgun so I can take other people's earthquake preparedness kit (which hopefully won't be handguns either).

bluecanary

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:51:56 -0800

What I loved is a recommendation that you keep one gallon of water per person/pet, per day, stored somewhere in your teeny, tiny SF apartment. I can barely find room for shoes, and I'm supposed to store a small pond's worth of water in there, too?

sissa

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:45:10 -0800

I just hope I'm stuck at my boyfriend's place. He lives above a bar, so we'll have plenty of booze, which is really all you need, right?

Cement Brunette

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:38:44 -0800

Let me say that I have a problem with these earthquake preparedness kits. How can all of the things they say you need possibly fit in a "kit." If I went out and got everything everyone suggested, I would need one large suitcase. Do you think I have room for that? No. I'll die being a mooch, thank you.

lola la trailera

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:34:15 -0800

best thing i have heard about preparing yourself, recently on kcbs radio talk was to: -CARRY A WHISTLE- with you at all times. sounds silly but it makes total sense if you are caught under anything you'll get tired of screaming but can always use that whistle. I have one on my keychain.

icbalaam

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:01:26 -0800

Members of my extended family won't come to California because they're afraid of earthquakes. Thank God for earthquakes.

bluecanary

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:58:41 -0800

I've got my camp stove, lantern, flashlights, battery operated radios and manual can opener and they're just gathering dust. All this talk about a big one...sometime...makes me think it's just a ploy to get us to buy earthquake insurance. But that's just me, any time some "study" comes out I always wonder who is profiting from it. Because someone always is.

RinconHillSF

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:18:13 -0800

GO through the NERT training - you'll feel better, or at least better prepared. www.sfgov.org/sffdnert The Annual NERT City-wide drill happens this Saturday ... so if you see a bunch of folks around Church and 17th street in orange vests and wearing hard hats, that's what's going on ...

RobInSF

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:39:58 -0800

It might not seem important right now but all you slick BMW drivers and trendy player's who have nothing in your pantries are all shit outta luck when the big one hits. I'm going to be the big man in this town when all the Marina babes decide that bottled water and spam sammiches are suddenly fashionable. Baby gotta eat yo!

jameth

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:04:41 -0800

what about AIDS???

cablecarsam

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:52:45 -0800

ROck on. My grandma who would now be 130 years old had to hear these same Nostradamus predictions all her life. It made her fearful, depresses, anxious and unable to live her life to the fullest. The Media gets a kick out of scaring us or is the people who sell the preparedness kits trying to make a buck. Only the Almighty knows for sure when a Big one will strike. Scientists have never been right about anything!