Sunday, August 19, 2007
Should I Be Scared Of Earthquakes
First...I was out of the house for about 12 hours and I come back and there are about 40 new Perez posts! Ahhh! But, really, I have a painting hanging above my bed and should I be nervous about it crashing down on me in an earthquake? What do Californians hang over their beds? Please, send me advice!
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In general, you shouldn't be worried one bit about earthquakes.
That said, I wouldn't hang anything over your bed that would severely harm you if it fell on your head while you were sleeping.
No fun.
So think twice if that painting is heavy!
Crow is that you? I shouldn't be worried "one bit." I can practially spit to the San Andreas fault.
http://www.thulescientific.com/san-andreas-fault-map.html
I'm looking for a little west coast wisdom.
Since I might have had something to do with this reflection on overhead art and earthquakes I will relate a story that may have nothing to do with this except as a cautionary tale. A man was driving his car packed to the side airbags (this was actually well before side airbags) out to the western part of this state. He was involved in an accident and was rear ended. The television set that he had placed high up on the pile of stuff in the backseat sailed forward and smashed into the back of his head and killed him. This story may be sub-urban-rural legend but it does paint a pretty good picture of the value of preemptive thinking. Now this reminds me of being in a Walmart in Colorado when a tornado was galloping in and had begun swirling all the trash in baby vortexes all around the parking lot. And I began thinking that I didn't want to die in Walmart because they would write that in my obituary. Better to get squished in the fragrance aisle at Neiman Marcus (this is in case they didn't find me for a few days). So if you still feel like you want a painting over your head that might fall on you and kill you I think I would pick a piece of art that would give everyone that was very sad, at the very least, a good laugh. I doubt that it would be painted by Carol Grigg. I might start working on a painting of a painting falling off the wall and hitting someone on the head. No matter what you decide to do, given my smotherly advice, I love you to a fault.
First of all, who lacks the common sense to pack the HEAVIEST thing on TOP of the carload?
How funny you ask that question, because Adam and I had a picture hanging above our bed, he comes home one night and was like, "we've gotta move that..." So, I'VE heard that story and you can never bee too safe - I say hang it across the room... how sad, indeed, but safety first.
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