We had an earthquake last night. It measured 5.2 on the Richter scale. Now that may not sound much to the Americans, particularly those Californians amongst you. But it was big enough to wake me up, and I’m a man who has slept through fire alarms.
We do tend to have more sedate natural disasters in this country. Kansas has hurricanes that rip off entire roofs, but when it gets a bit windy in England all that happens is that a couple of chimney pots get blown into next door’s garden. When Bangladesh floods thousands loose their lives, over here some woman in York has to re-plaster her living room. And Tokyo frequently gets terrorized by a rampaging Godzilla, whereas in our village we just have an unusually large duck (it is a very big duck though).
Which is not to say I would actually like more dramatic cataclysms obviously. Even when playing SimCity on the PC I used to play with the disasters switched off. Who wants to spend hours designing an intricately laid out transportation system only to see it burnt to a crisp by an exploding volcano. And anyway, if you turned disasters off you could reduce the budget for the fire service right down to zero. There must have been a lot of cats left to starve in trees in my city. But alas the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I’m sure the good citizens of Dansville would prefer being hit with the occasional falling cat corpse than live in a city like this:
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That must have been a surprise for sure!
How are all of the brick buildings in your area??
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