though because I've primarily been at work when it happens, we do have to shelter in place, but leading up to it, there were regular trips to the employee entrance to look at the progress of things
Then again, as someone who grew up in Earthquakeland, we're just as bad, if more inconvenienced than intrigued. "Oh, the ground is shaking? Should I shelter? Hm. It'll pass."
I had some friends over there for holidays staying with a Japanese friend of them and there was an Earthquake that woke them up but the friend and his family were all fast asleep and when they woke up it was like "oh, that happened? must have been a soft one"
I was at Disneyland and we had an Earthquake and NO ONE in my party of 4 felt it, and meanwhile DL was like...closing up shop to check everything for damage and people were getting tickets refunded and we were like... wat?
tbh I've slept through fucking kale borrokas which range from violent protesters throwing paint and stones to basically small sized all out wars with firearms and explosives in the middle of the street
but it sure was a thing to wake up in the morning and go check the day only to find that I would be late for school because the firefighters were still trying to put out fires of trashcans and cars
My first serious midwestern tornado siren, I'm trying to get dogs downstairs and in the middle of staring at the radar (which turned out that the news station 'casting it was running AN HOUR behind) with the handicapped dog, the Nephew comes tromping upstairs with the little dogs, bored already.
[insert heart palpitations here]