I'll take earthquakes over these tornados, knock-down wind storms, torrential rains and flash floods any day. Call me crazy, but earthquakes last no longer than a minute and sure only the ones with a magnitue of 5.5 or greater (which is rare) do any devistating damage. These storms however have lasted since oh say late November and have yet to leave me with my beloved Blue Skies.
Living in SoCal for as long as I did, I grew accostomed to rain happening only every so often, usually at night and never really being something that would scare me. However just about everytime it rains here, some area that I need to traverse in (either walking or driving) turns into a pond or stream that isn't heel friendly. The water that falls out of the sky is also warmer, which does wonders for my curlz ~ gotta love high humidity.
Guess what it comes down to is what you're accustomed to. I've grown accustomed to little earthquakes here and there. The best way to describe an earthquake to somebody is when you're sitting in your car, and you happen to get stuck on a bridge and that bridge also happens to shake while you're sitting there waiting for traffic to move. That is the closest I can put into words the feeling of what 90% of the earthquakes I felt.
These storms, they seem to last forever; the wind howls, if you have animals, they panic. If you have a house, sometimes bits of your house or lawn end up somewhere they don't belong. Even worse if you like to garden, your bushes end up torn up or uprooted. I've seen fallen bits of trees moved to the front of peoples yards that eventually wilt before they are taken away by the garbage trucks. I've also seen bits of the roof hanging out on the ground. Fun stuff to take care of on top of all the
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