Conversation after experiencing one in Ontario CA. included the "locals" telling the easterner past earthquake stories. All seemed to have swimming pool stories, with various amounts of water being tossed out, but the winner was the guy who told about him and his wife being tossed out of their water bed by a mini tsunami.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis