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I deeply love the word “grotesque” to describe the Trump vote!

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I've read all the earthquake, fire, hurricane, and tornado comments. I'm glad I live in El Paso where we don't have any of those things. Sometimes I will be out on my balcony where the sky is a cloudless blue, the temperature is warm, and a soft breeze whispers at me while I listen to the news of terrible blizzards, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and fires everywhere but El Paso and I have weather guilt. You people suffer so much while I just enjoy another sunny day. We do get dust storms, but that's it.

I hope I haven't jinxed anything.

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Oregon's kind of like that as well. Until the Big One* hits.

*We refer to the hypothetical earthquake that is supposed to be imminent in the next 30 years that.

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You two should both be doing some serious “wood-knocking”!

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We do get forest fires every damn summer.

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I just want to say, I am in Brooklyn, and the trembling waves were a little scary, we even got an aftershock in the afternoon. Also, I have had mysterious leaking in my apartment for about 10 days and the first thought I had was that the leaks were presaging a building collapse. It had that vibe

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Ta, Sara. I am a fan of yours, but not of Beyoncé. Different strokes.

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with a grotesque 50.96 percent of the vote going to Trump in the 2020 general election. I was pleasantly shocked that over 46% of the vote went to Joe Biden that year

*rubs eyes* whut

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Has anyone checked Ivana's grave? The epicenter was within a couple of miles.

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There wasn't a stone to be rolled away, though

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Apr 5Liked by Sara Benincasa

Well we're living here in Allentown and the factories didn't fall down but I felt it and heard my house creak a bit. This certainly happened because I am an atheist and I am sorry if you were inconveniencedd

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If that tiny tremor indicated the end of the world, wait until Monday when the sun goes away. Fun fact, peak eclipse is about a quarter mile down the road from me.

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And then I assume you are going to stop it?! Cause you sure did nothing to stop that durned earthquake!

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I have a drone. I was going to drone it.

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Apr 5Liked by Sara Benincasa

I assume New Jersey is now a smoking hellscape thanks to these massive earthquakes, and while I haven't had reason to visit since Maxwell's Tavern closed I will always think fondly of my nights there.

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I live in NJ. Things are bad, but we aren’t the burned out husk of city that Portland, Oregon is. I can still walk down the road, because unlike Portland we still have roads!!!!!!!!

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Apr 6·edited Apr 6

Thank God, I hear Portlanders are reduced to drinking warm Ovaltine.

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Apr 5·edited Apr 5

I believe it passed smoking hellscape around the time that Maxwell's closed. No really good reason to go there now...

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I kind of enjoy my superior California-earthquake attitude when a wee quake rumbles through someplace Not-California and everybody loses their goddamn mind and proclaims how they'll take hurricanes over earthquakes ZOMG. Granted, I was a little shocked when a telephone pole right in front of me *bent* itself in half and then snapped back upright during the Loma Prieta earthquake, and I watched as the wires attached to the pole swung down toward my head and then flew back up into position as the pavement rolled beneath my feet like waves at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. But I'd still take that over a hurricane any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

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I hear you. Grandma lived in Aptos, I lived in Santa Cruz and worked in Los Gatos at the time.

The 100 year old brick building i was in partially collapsed and i was fortunate to find an old steel desk to crawl under.

It was a big deal.

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Bunch of wimps I grew up in California don’t tell ME about earthquakes. I’m not talking about you all I’m talking about the news anchors that went into a complete panic.

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Apr 5Liked by Sara Benincasa

Bruce wants to be Dictator-for Life, I move back to North Cape May to vote him in.

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The music would be a fuck of a lot better than what Donnie Dicktator's offering.

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Ok assholes. Which one of you threw the half eaten 7 11 burrito down the storm drain?

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Living in Mexico City, I kind of scoff at people being freaked out by anything less than 5.0 on the Richter Scale. Then again, having been thru a couple 7*-ers, I take earthquakes very, very seriously, and we're genuinely grateful to be one of the few cities in the world with earthquake alarms.

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My house is between 2 major faultlines. Fun!

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Faultlines? How lazy. We get all our earthquakes from our own hard work fracking.

It got so bad the Republican governor put a halt to fracking.

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