I was reading a segment in USA Today yesterday called Et cetera. An article that Frank Bajak wrote for the Associated Press was quoted. Here is the part that has me thinking...
"Survivors of Haiti's quake described abject panic - much of it well-founded as buildings imploded around them...Chileans, on the other hand, have homes and offices built to ride out quakes, their steel skeletons designed to sway with seismic waves rather than resist them."
I, of course, continue to think of people in both countries and the devastation they must be experiencing. Nothing we can truly comprehend unless we have lived through something similar.
But the article also had me thinking about us. How "quake" proof are we when we are "hit" by our own earthquake and the follow up tsunamis? Do we implode or do we sway with the seismic waves?
I think I imploded when I was hit by my "earthquake"...ah..no thinking about it. I did. How am I rebuilding my "skeleton" this time so next time I could just sway with the waves rather than resist them?
Tomorrow I will start sharing my building plans.
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