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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (24389)	5/13/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You live in a frame building? One or two stories? What is your SSN? You're really only danger of civilization falling down around you, aren't you? And in that case, being crushed in a brick bldg wouldn't be so bad. You should move to somewhere old and dangerous. It doesn't do much good to build safe buildings in LA. Some, it's true; but you're in Doodooland anyway. That's why you don't dream of quakes. I know everything. It's amazing. I betcha the Watts Towers survive. We need to get you and Lather webcams to narrate the wrinkling of civilization. That would be worth buying tec.nology for.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (24389)	5/13/1999 12:39:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

When we moved to the Promise Land (didn't Bill Shatner film those awful margarine ads here?) we lived in an apartment not 100 yards from the tracks for the local abortive attempt at Commuter Rail. At night freight trains would come juddering through at sustained speeds. The whole apartment shook slightly from the train's passage. One evening I was camped out on the couch and the apartment gave a few seconds of the Caltrain Shimmy. But it was quiet out. So I turned on the TV and listened to the suddenly grave and soulful newscritters describe the quake and show Precious Video of their track lights jiggle. Right over their overinsured, epoxy-coiffed heads.