tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435777.post112629157155999595..comments2023-12-25T12:57:29.431+02:00Comments on Mel's Diner: Natural disastermelusinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04096116965055620488noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435777.post-1126369992015343092005-09-10T19:33:00.000+03:002005-09-10T19:33:00.000+03:00EllasDevil, I am sure you are referring to the mov...EllasDevil, I am sure you are referring to the movement of the bed created by my husband's snoring, right? =)<BR/><BR/>I, personally, think that, like SeaWitch, I don't think I'll ever get used to quakes, even if I experience a few. But I guess only time will tell.<BR/><BR/>I will confess, that I am a tad bit curious to actually feel a small earthquake. Just so I know what it is like, I guess - and perhaps, wandering-woman, it is like you say, once I experience one, I'll feel better. We'll see. <BR/><BR/>Generally, when I felt the bed moving it was either a truck passing by or a cat sharpening his or her claws on the mattress/boxspring. So maybe I haven't even felt a tremor yet.melusinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04096116965055620488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435777.post-1126358432640235122005-09-10T16:20:00.000+03:002005-09-10T16:20:00.000+03:00I do love stopping by to see what you are thinking...I do love stopping by to see what you are thinking about every day, Mel, and its as unpredictable as earthquakes..most days...<BR/><BR/>Looks like I'm the odd one out here but with 4 years in Southern California, quakes never worried me - maybe just because as you say, you can't control them, you can't predict them, when the bed shakes like you're sleeping in a dollhouse somebody's shaking up and down, there's nothing to do but ride the wave. I had my earthquake kit (batteries, etc.) tucked in the closet like a well-trained Californian - many of my neighbors had lost their homes in 94 - but I got to liking the tremors in some weird way. Maybe they create some sort of false security...so many tremors and nothing big, we must be OK. <BR/><BR/>When I lived in the Midwest, tornados freaked me out - probably because I never actually experienced one. Maybe you do need just a little tiny tremor to show you you'll survive?Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17896523881052681809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435777.post-1126334535660433622005-09-10T09:42:00.000+03:002005-09-10T09:42:00.000+03:00I, too, feel the bed move every now and again. And...I, too, feel the bed move every now and again. And when it does, my heart stops. It's everything I can do not to jump out of bed and race to the balcony. After experiencing my first earthquake in 1999 here, I haven't gotten "used to them". I don't believe for a second anyone gets used to earthquakes. Tremors maybe. But never earthquakes. I'm getting really good at determining their strength too. 4.1 is like experiencing vertigo. At 4.9 objects will move. I still break out in stress hives every time I feel anything over 4.5. I have experienced tornadoes, hurricanes, ice storms, blizzards in my lifetime and only earthquakes truly frighten me half to death. You can never see one coming and that's the source of my fear. I can't prepare for it.The SeaWitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11157875952893208383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8435777.post-1126307670749362592005-09-10T02:14:00.000+03:002005-09-10T02:14:00.000+03:00"Almost every night I'm sure I feel the bed moving...<I>"Almost every night I'm sure I feel the bed moving..."</I><BR/><BR/>Well I think you should be having words with your mother. There's certain things she should have you know... er... talked to you about as you were growing up. One of them is that it's perfectly normal for your bed to be moving every night when your married! It's like part and parcel of the whole marriage deal!<BR/><BR/>Getting serious now, I can understand your fear of earthquakes. I think it's because they are something we have absolutely no control over and also have no way of knowing just when and where they are going to hit.<BR/><BR/>Greece is very seismic and I'm sure you'll have experienced small tremors since you've been here. Personally I'm useless, I don't notice the small ones. I usually read a line on teletext <I>"a tremor was felt in Athens at 1am this morning...."</I> and I'll be sat there thinking 'but I was up at 1am, why didn't I feel it?'. <BR/><BR/>I think the Superman film has installed a lot of this fear in you, you see an earthquake as like the scene in the movie when in reality, they're nowhere near as 'exciting' (I'm unsure thats the right word to use) and I'm sure once you do experience one you feel is significant enough to be considered an experience then you'll feel better and more 'in the know' about them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com