California Quake

Well I guess I'm with you Lana. If I had to choose I would want the warning that goes with a hurricane. But I will stay right here in the midwest and keep an eye out for Tornado's.

Im with you Tammy we live in our basement with tornado's but with earthquakes where do you go or what do you do.

I've been fortunate (?) to have experienced both a hurricane and an earthquake in my life, and I think, given a choice, I'd take the 'cane. Even though we really didn't have a whole lot of warning with the hurricane (it was Fran in 1996, and was supposed to "bounce" off the coast of NC, but instead just barreled through the state and was a weak Cat 2/ strong Cat 1 when it went over us in central NC) at least we knew what was going on. The quake just happened...no warning, and we didn't have time to think about what was going on before it was over.

I'm with you, I guess I would take hurricanes over earthquakes, (of course, rather not have either). Of

all natural diasters I prefer a blizzard. LOL

Lefthook Im from the midwest, can I ask you what do you all have to do to protect yourselves, I know with a tornado we have sirens and we know to go to the basement, but what do you have to do with either a hurricane or earthquake.

The earthquake was when I was just a kid, but I do remember "drills" - we were just told to find something sturdy, like a table or doorway, and get under it. However, they failed to mention you don't have a whole lot of time to even THINK about doing something like that. We were lucky and the EQ we experienced was very mild. For hurricanes, depending on the strength, it's batten down the hatches, find a safe place (pretty much like during a tornado, you're just going to have to stay there longer) and stock up on bread, eggs, milk (for some reason when a hurricane is a'comin, people get cravings for french toast!), toilet paper, water and batteries. If it's a really bad 'cane, they evacuate. What was "funny" for Fran was they evacuated the coast of NC to the central portion (Raleigh/Durham) because they thought Fran was just going to run up the coast. But it went straight through the state and Raleigh actually got hit worse than the coast, so a lot of people who evacuated to Raleigh got flooded out! It took central NC by surprise, so many of us were not prepared.

So If you have to evacuate and have no where to go, where do you go.