2 thoughts on “Places You Don’t Want to Be in an Earthquake”
Well, that just validates my dislike for being on really high man-made structures. (Bridges and things that span high places, like trams, are the worst.) I never know if I can trust them to hold up. The Washington Monument would definitely have been too much for me in an earthquake. (It’s because I know how many construction companies cut corners, how many inspectors are lax and/or take bribes, and how many construction workers are hung-over, loaded, etc, while they build these things.) It’s a miracle anything holds up.
Believe me, it was bad enough being in an earthquake in our house on the back side of a one-lane dike on the Columbia River, where the house behind the dike sat lower than the water level on the other side. The whole house shook, and I knew that if that dike gave way, we were all in deep water, literally, with no way to escape. Maybe, if the house didn’t wash away, we could have climbed up on the roof, but it’s unlikely it would have held in the sudden flood, if the dike broke. (Thanks to the reconstruction work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decades before, it obviously held.)
Nice of the park ranger to bolt and leave all the visitors behind.
Well, that just validates my dislike for being on really high man-made structures. (Bridges and things that span high places, like trams, are the worst.) I never know if I can trust them to hold up. The Washington Monument would definitely have been too much for me in an earthquake. (It’s because I know how many construction companies cut corners, how many inspectors are lax and/or take bribes, and how many construction workers are hung-over, loaded, etc, while they build these things.) It’s a miracle anything holds up.
Believe me, it was bad enough being in an earthquake in our house on the back side of a one-lane dike on the Columbia River, where the house behind the dike sat lower than the water level on the other side. The whole house shook, and I knew that if that dike gave way, we were all in deep water, literally, with no way to escape. Maybe, if the house didn’t wash away, we could have climbed up on the roof, but it’s unlikely it would have held in the sudden flood, if the dike broke. (Thanks to the reconstruction work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decades before, it obviously held.)
Nice of the park ranger to bolt and leave all the visitors behind.