At 05:12 AM Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). Devastating fires soon broke out in San Francisco and lasted for several days. More than 3,000 people died and over 80% of the city was destroyed. The event is remembered as the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California’s history and high on the list of worst American disasters.
Between 227,000 and 300,000 people were left homeless out of a population of about 410,000. As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were far more destructive. It has been estimated that at least 80%, and at most over 95%, of the total destruction was the result of the subsequent fires. Within three days, over 30 fires, caused by ruptured gas mains, destroyed approximately 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. The fires cost an estimated $350 million at the time (equivalent to $8.9 billion in 2023).




Gotta love Utah…



Katy…











BADA BING!!!!
My life is a constant battle between wanting to correct grammar and wanting to have friends.
Sometimes I meet people and feel bad for their dog.
You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.
Steal this chant for your next rally: Small Hands Small Feet – All He Does is Golf and Tweet.
So, it’s okay for a cat to run away and hide under the bed when visitors come, but, when I do it, it’s “rude” and “antisocial.”
My 401k has been converted to a 404k.
I miss the old sleepy guy who never bankrupted a casino or our economy or turned our country into a global pariah.
I miss the calm old guy who rescued the economy without turning every single headline into a circus act.
God: I should have made more AOCs.
I will never understand how folks let a man who bankrupted 6 companies convince them he’d be better for the economy than the prosecutor with an economics degree.
If you serve your kids frozen pizza or chicken nuggets for dinner, you are a terrible parent. I don’t care how busy you are, find the time to microwave them.
I went to the grocery store today and the cashier said my total was $208.47. I wanted a second opinion so I went to self-checkout and my new total was 43.20.
If you honestly think stealing food stamps is easy, you’ve clearly never tried qualifying for them.
Boobytrap spelled backward is partyboob.
Dr. Oz was confirmed to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is great news for the snake oil industry.
Getting older is wild. I thought I blacked out for 20 minutes this morning. Turns out, I just put my hoodie on backward.
Sign of the year at protest…Hey trump, nobody paid us to be here! We all hate you for free!
I’ll never be okay with donut shops cutting a hole in my donut, and then charging me separately for the same hole they robbed me of.
When someone tells me I look familiar, I just tell them “I do porn”.








Enjoy the weekend! Here’s Dire Straits… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd9TlGDZGkI
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