This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lisa, what you say re remaining in a building is correct to a point. When you are in a building and it starts to weave and rock, and things are falling my first feeling is escape to flat clear surfaces. Two year ago I had just come in from seeing the physician (hmmm both of these last times I have been seeing a physician, maybe it is all my fault!) with blood pressure of 245 over 115. I got home, collapsed into my chair and the earthquake hit! The fireplace was swinging back and forth, this time we were ten miles from the epicenter where as the recent one was thirty miles away. My walls and doorways were swinging and I got out of there into my field. Did I mention I am on a bluff? In other words the home was not a safe place. Same with the doctors office this time as we were in the flats where they build on pilings over marsh lands.
I had quite a time opening my door when that first one hit as it was at an angle. Certainly the pictures out of Seattle where walls and marquees collapse shows why in that situation you do not run under something outside. And the pictures of people in auditoriums where debris is coming down from the ceilings,,, I would have been the first one streaking out! Anyway I defer to your experience and will try when the next one hits, which we are fatalistically anticipating, to be in a safe place. Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of "The Colonel's Daughter" Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle Barnes & Noble Book Stores
