The Hayward Fault
Late to the party here.
The Hayward Fault has been due to let go "any day now" since 1998. The geological record indicates that the interval between major spasms averages 130 years, and the last time it let go big-time was 1868. The record also indicates that it has slumbered for as long as 170 years at a time, in which case I might have until 2038. I'll be eighty-six then, and will likely have quit Oakland years earlier: I'm thinking Bellingham WA, so I can catch the mega-tsunami—or it me.
Flatline, Comatose, Torpor & Drowse was already in San Francisco for that 1868 quake, and part of the building was rendered unusable. The rest stood until early in the last century, when it was pulled down and our present very stately quarters (of which I occupy a progressively tinier square footage) erected on the site.
That "any day now" header was pure clickbait.
tremblingly,
The Hayward Fault has been due to let go "any day now" since 1998. The geological record indicates that the interval between major spasms averages 130 years, and the last time it let go big-time was 1868. The record also indicates that it has slumbered for as long as 170 years at a time, in which case I might have until 2038. I'll be eighty-six then, and will likely have quit Oakland years earlier: I'm thinking Bellingham WA, so I can catch the mega-tsunami—or it me.
Flatline, Comatose, Torpor & Drowse was already in San Francisco for that 1868 quake, and part of the building was rendered unusable. The rest stood until early in the last century, when it was pulled down and our present very stately quarters (of which I occupy a progressively tinier square footage) erected on the site.
That "any day now" header was pure clickbait.
tremblingly,
