We're still standing ...
... though you couldn't have guessed it from the frantic national TV news coverage of the Chino earthquake. Don't let Anderson Cooper's tears fool you; CNN loves a Katrina-type disaster, and what could be a better story than the Big One pushing Southern California into the ocean?
Me, I didn't even feel it. No joke. I was going to lunch in my lean, mean fighting machine - aka, my '06 Prius - and had no idea that the earth had moved under my feet until arriving at the restaurant. My car gets great gas mileage, its yellow carpool-lane stickers are worth their weight in gold, and now I've got one more reason to love it - quake-proof shocks.