North Bend didn't do the annual earthquake kit thing as far as I remember but I guess I'm as prepared for the "big one" as I am for our total annihilation by gigantic meteors/Yellowstone erupting/solar flares/zombie apocalypse/et cetera, which is to say: not very much. It's disheartening but not surprising that the usual political stagnation has ensured that our government won't be any better prepared. Go us!

Not to get all reasonable or anything, but the quake just moved the Pacific Ocean 13 feet further to the West underneath Japan. We are on the opposite side of the Pacific plate. So it means there is 13 feet less of the Pacific plate trying to push its way underneath Oregon. The chances of a major quake happening on our side of the ocean have just massively (if temporarily) decreased.

Yes, we will get a big one one day. And I don't want to be around all those brick buildings in Old Town when it happens. But if you weren't panicking about it before, there's even less reason to panic about it now.

We`re all doomed. I live near a cemetery (a pet one, none the less a cemetery), and those Apocalyptic Zombie movies have been scaring the shit outta me. If I see "little pawns" coming after me I`ll burn the moderfucker down.

This must be a nightmare. The NYT has something BAD to say about Oregon?! Get me out of this Twilight Zone!

Buy a small generator, Leaky, so that after the quake you can stay up late watching DVDs ("Pet Sematary" perhaps?)...

husqvarna, if you're worried about nuclear material Hanford is a much bigger dispersal threat even though it is farther away.

Your mom's due for the big one.





Sorry, I'm allowed one every year.

@CC: One mom? Can't wait for Mother's Day?

I thought of buying a zapper (which generates electricity), a stunt pistol, lets call it that, so if a monkey from the dead comes after me I can defend well. (And I´ll get the solar panel DVD too, to educate myself so to know which moves to apply when defending myself against different types of menaces).

I just hope the home appliances don`t come to life, cuz then I`ll be fucked. I`ll need a good exorcist for that.