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I Fake Survived The Fake SoCal EarthQuake And All I Got Was This Fake Tee-Shirt

Squirminator2kSquirminator2k they/themNorth Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
edited November 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
I'm interested to know how many other SoCal D&Ders "participated" in the Great Southern California Shake Out, and whether or not you thought the exercise was worthwhile or not.

Personally, I didn't get anything out of it that I hadn't already. I lay under my desk for about a minute, and then had to gather in a conference room with everyone else to do a Roll Call. That was it. I appreciate the need for Earthquake Preparedness but the exercise seemed kind of dumb.

Maybe that's just my perspective as someone who grew up in a country not usually accustomed to Earthquakes.

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  • Buzz BuzzBuzz Buzz Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    We were supposed to get under our desks for the five minutes. No one here thought it was worthwhile. So no one did.

    I suspect there were significant plans about this event made somewhere for some group of people, but I'm guessing that anyone who wasn't part of these grand events thought this was pretty useless.

    That said, I was talking with my apartmentmate and his gf on the way to the bus stop today about this, and his gf apparently thought that we were supposed to get outside the building as fast as possible in the event of an earthquake. Maybe the Shake Out was for those sorts of people.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited November 2008
    So, like, what... you got a picture of a t-shirt? I don't get it.

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  • Element BrianElement Brian Peanut Butter Shill Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    In elementary school, every month or so our Principal would get on the over com and go say "RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE" and that meant we all had to get under our desks for earthquake drill.

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  • TheMarshalTheMarshal Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    In elementary school, every month or so our Principal would get on the over com and go say "RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE" and that meant we all had to get under our desks for earthquake drill.

    We had earthquake drills in my elementary school, tool. Except we'd use the fire alarm to signal that it was an earthquake drill (we knew ahead of time whether the alarm was supposed to be for a fire or an earthquake).

    I thought this was a pretty common thing in SoCal?

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  • Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    So, like, what... you got a picture of a t-shirt? I don't get it.
    I am more perturbed by the fact that Squirminator2k "fake survived" - i.e. perished in this fake earthquake :P

    It seems every new job I have holds a fire drill soon after I join (probably because it's the summer). At least that's an opportunity for a bunch of office workers to get outdoors and take a long lunch bread - and even then no one take it seriously. "Timely evacuation" basically means "when you get sick of the fire alarm, or have finished whatever you're working on at the moment".

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  • DalbozDalboz Resident Puppy Eater Right behind you...Registered User regular
    edited November 2008
    I didn't even know this went on until I read about it on the news. I guess that's what I get for not working in an office with other people.

    We had these drills growing up, usually followed by going out to the PE field and having a roll call done. Jumping under the desk seemed to be a cure all though. Same thing was done for a nuclear attack drill. Like that would have done any good. As far as I know, the only good drills like that did was to continually remind me that I could die at any moment.

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