My roommate is freaking out about the possibility of an earthquake in Southern California and just spent ten minutes schooling me in water preparation techniques.
I... don't know how to feel about this.
I mean, granted, an earthquake is extremely likely where we live, especially since it's a few thousand years overdue and all, but at the same time I'm ... not really worried about it? Partly because it's not really something that can be prevented and so there's no use stressing over the inevitable, and partly because I feel like we'll be fine. Again, this earthquake has been overdue for a while, so California is prepared -- there's emergency relief programs in place, all the buildings are reinforced so they don't fall over, earthquake preparedness is taught in schools, etc. There will be some damage because that can't be prevented no matter what, but on the whole I think we'll come out of it okay.
This post is probably going to bite me in the ass later, I can feel it.
