toilet paper & milk run!

The big news in San Diego today is the "killer storm" that's getting ready to slam into southern Ca this weekend. America's Finest City is battening down the hatches for the first major weather system of the fall season. San Diegans are all abuzz, bracing for what could be the Storm of the Century.

The Weather Channel, in it's grimmest report to date, is calling for a SIXTY PERCENT chance of rain on Friday, and 30% chance on Saturday.

Remember San Diego, always secure your own umbrella before assisting someone else with theirs.

And God help us all.

Update: Friday September 21. Sunny, 73-ish and not a cloud in the sky. It never rains in San Diego.

Yawn, Not

Hot on the heels of my first earthquake, I've now survived TWO, count 'em - one AND two - earthquakes! There's nothing like an earthquake within 20 minutes of waking up to make you feel alive. Or at least happy to be.

If you ever experience a lil' shakey-shakey in your neck of the woods, you can send valuable eyewitness data to the US Geological Survey's website. The USGS compiles the data and uses it to create all sorts of cool maps in different colors as pictured here.

Under the "Earthquake Myths" FAQs, I learned that lots of smaller quakes will not stave off a larger one, nor does a period of earthquake inactivity mean that one is over due. These are all a part of the natural process of nature scaring the pants off you.

Another earthquake myth is that California will fall into the Pacific when "the big one" happens. The San Andreas Fault lies along the Salton Sea in the south and crosses through northern California at Cape Mendocino, so in the event of a major seismological event on that fault, what would actually happen is that LA and San Francisco would become next door neighbors.

Heck, I'd trade Hollywood for a bowl of clam chowder any day. Shakey-shakey.