jasonbutler42

Everyone has been talking about the “Quake of ’08″ so I won’t rehash my personal details of waking up in the early morning hours. But what’s been on my mind has been summed up by Bill McClellen in a fictional account from the future. I’ve been worried that the New Madrid fault would be jostled loose by the quake from the Wabash valley fault and we’re not far away from another tremendous quake like the one in 1812 that changed the course of the Mississippi river. I’ve been trying not to fear working on the 9th floor of a building in an area chock full of dense bedrock (apparently the looser ground in California makes the quakes there appear less potent). Unlike my previous obsession with pandemic flu and disaster preparedness, there really isn’t anything I can do to prepare for my building to collapse.

So if this post turns out to be some prescient forecast, I want my family to know I love them all. I always have and I always will.