Shake It Cali

Today is the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake. There was a memorial at 4:30 am in downtown SF to honor the destruction of my beautiful city--I wanted to attend, but I was feeling sick, I stayed up kind of late, yada yada yada, it was a beautiful ride into work this morning!

Living over several major faultlines, there is a subcurrent of danger in Bay Area life. But the scenery is so drastic, the culture is so crazy, shouldn't the seismology be too?

Things we are doing to honor the earthquake:
1. Releasing a report to scare everybody about the next earthquake
2. Not retrofitting the Bay Bridge in a timely manner
3. Not coming up with a city-wide plan to respond to an earthquake, and telling people they'll have to save their own skins instead

Pretty disappointing, especially for a relatively got-it-together place like San Francisco...