Did you see the TV news showing Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance holding a press conference when the earthquake struck? He was standing behind a podium on a stage with six or seven of his staff standing behind him. The moment they felt the quake, they scattered from the stage like rabbits, leaving their boss standing there by himself, with the startled gaze of a deer caught in a car’s headlights.
I guess you can forgive New Yorkers and others on the East Coast for going into panic mode when they felt that earthquake. After all, unlike California, the eastern seaboard is not used to those movers and shakers. When I lived in Riverside, hardly a month went by when we didn’t have a rock and roll experience. Most of those were so minor that we never bothered to pay any attention to them. A few were around the 5.8 magnitude experienced by them Yankees, but after catching your breath, you just shrugged them off.
There’s no running out in the streets like scared rabbits when some slight movers and shakers hit in California.
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