News at 11(-ish)

[ase]

Knowing I'll be offline for much of the weekend, I am forced to stop procrastinating on posting. I blame the weather: unbroken clouds for 4 days last week, with rain and more clouds in the forecast. Sunless hours in the lab and turning me into a glazed lump staring dumbly at the glowing laptop screen. If I ever talk about moving to the Pacific NW, check me for brain damage.

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There is nothing to say about the Japanese earthquake / tsunami / nuclear situation which has not already been said, with greater eloquence than I usually muster.

Local reactions are something else: Roommate Number 3 has been reassured that, if a tsunami hits the House of Tea, the triggering disaster will probably be of a magnitude to render death by tsunami an unnecessary afterthought. If the Hayward fault lets loose during business hours, however, I may be kind of screwed. Somewhere in there the conversation wandered into topo maps and hiking, in that way disaster planning will. San Francisco: still pretty awesome.

And then there is Libya, as the Washington Post informs me in strikingly large font. I need to read less science and more current events.

Comments

[ashcomp]

Mmmm. Still might behoove you to familiarize yourself with the city's emergency planning & services. I'm pretty sure those exist, even if most citizens are oblivious to the details.

[ase]

It's on a vague to-do list. The odds of being caught in a major quake are at once-in-a-lifetime levels, but for the one time, pretty important. Until I get around to the citizen response course, I check the quake map for hints I need to rocket the go-bag up the priority list.