[BC] Re: shakin'

[Rich Wood]

------ At 06:39 PM 4/18/2008, Kevin Trueblood wrote: -------

>Morning show buddy of mine saw the mic booms in the studio dancing, 
>plus the TV mounted above his head squeaking, which made him a 
>little unsettled...

I spent 8 years in San Diego. One of the first things one learns is 
not to mount anything over your head. There's nothing like being in a 
small hotel without air conditioning, just a ceiling fan. I was at 
the Catalina Jazz festival. It was a hot night and the fan was on 
high speed. I was thrown out of bed (I was alone, so nature did it) 
and saw the fan as potential Cuisinart.

Friends in Palm Springs had a small bedroom. They thought a nice big 
mirror at the head of the bed (not on the ceiling) would make the 
room look larger. An earthquake centered in Calexico woke them up 
just before the mirror fell onto the bed. People get killed in even 
minor earthquakes by things like unsecured bookcases and TV sets that 
aren't battened down.

I can't say I'd want to be in a TV studio with hundreds of pounds of 
metal and glass secured with C-clamps dangling over my head.

Now that I'm back East I was comforted to hear an earthquake expert 
say Midwestern and Eastern earthquakes are more dangerous because of 
the harder bedrock transmitting energy much more efficiently than the 
softer Western bedrock.

Comforting to know.

Rich